it is Thernstrom's personal narrative that keeps the reader turning pages into the night. In the Globe, Alec Solomita writes that Thernstrom's voice is what pulls readers along: The book examines how the medical community has approached pain through history how it is viewed in different cultures and various approaches to treating it, from neurobiology to acupuncture. Thernstrom was driven to explore the subject of chronic pain-which affects an estimated 70 million Americans-because she herself "suffers from an arthritic condition that ranges from irritating to incapacitating," Helen Epstein of the Times writes. Thernstrom's The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering is part memoir, part medical-historical exploration, and both reviewers give it a thumbs-up. A new book by Melanie Thernstrom ’87 was reviewed in the New York Times and the Boston Globe last week.
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