The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief
Author:   David Biro (SUNY Downstate Medical Center)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
ISBN:  

9780393070637


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   17 August 2010
Replaced By:   9780393340259
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   David Biro (SUNY Downstate Medical Center)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9780393070637


ISBN 10:   0393070638
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   17 August 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Replaced By:   9780393340259
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

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[E]rudite and ambitious....Biro brings an extraordinary range of voices into this silence and moves through a huge variety of experience and narrative, without straying too far from the bedside. --Perri Klass


A literate and deeply felt work of medical philosophy that ponders the subtle mystery of how words give meaning to and even relief from corporeal and psychic anguish.--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression


A literate and deeply felt work of medical philosophy that ponders the subtle mystery of how words give meaning to-and even relief from-corporeal and psychic anguish. -- Andrew Solomon, author of <em>The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression</em>


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One of New York magazine’s Top Doctors, David Biro, MD, practices in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. He lives with his wife and twin boys in New York City.

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