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By P. Prithvi Raj. 571 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby, 1995. $49.95. ISBN 0-8016-7998-2.

New motives and new methods for controlling pain have recently emerged. Pain control is increasingly — and appropriately — seen as key to patients' quality of life and satisfaction with medical care. Pain is also recognized as a biologic cascade whose early treatment (or neglect) can have long-lasting consequences for body and mind. New drugs, delivery systems, and nonpharmacologic techniques make the control of pain in many settings a feasible goal. A distinct body of specialized knowledge, applied by growing numbers of clinicians whose practices emphasize the diagnosis and treatment of pain in itself to a greater degree than do . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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