Short description
Pain, as a consequence of surgical procedures or terminal illness, can nowadays be alleviated. This text provides a concise and easily understandable account of the nature of pain and its treatment, written at a level suitable for medical students and other non-specialists.
Long description
In recent years the amount of research carried out on pain has increased enormously, and the expectations of both patients and doctors regarding its treatment have been raised. Pain which in the past was taken for granted as an inevitable consequence of s