دانلود کتاب Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants

"Written by the authors of _Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and In His Image_, this book tells the story of Dr Brand's dramatic 50-year career, focusing on the ways in which his accumulated wisdom provided him with an appreciation of pain's role in protecting the body."

"A WORLD WITHOUT PAIN? Can such a place exist? It not only can - it does. But it's no utopia. It's a colony for leprosy patients: a world where people literally feel no pain, and reap horrifying consequences. His work with leprosy patients in India and the United States convinced Dr. Paul Brand that pain truly is one of God's great gifts to us. In this inspiring story of his fifty-year career as a healer, Dr. Brand probes the mystery of pain and reveals its importance. As an indicator that lets us know something is wrong, pain has a value that becomes clearest in its absence.The Gift of Pain looks at what pain is and why we need it. Together, the renowned surgeon and award-winning writer Philip Yancey shed fresh light on a gift that none of us want and none of us can do without."

From _Publishers Weekly_

"This autobiography transmits a healthy respect for, and new understanding of, the body's most basic warning system: pain. Seattle surgeon Brand was born in India in 1914 to British missionary parents. His childhood gave him an Indian perspective on pain as one of life's unavoidable challenges. After attending medical school in England during WW II, he returned to India and discovered that insensitivity to pain in lepers, and also in people with nerve disorders, alcoholism and other conditions, put them in constant peril of injuries and wounds. Continuing his work at a Louisiana leprosarium, Brand also opened a foot clinic for diabetics and innovated simple procedures that, if widely adopted, could eliminate thousands of unnecessary amputations in diabetics diagnosed with "nonhealing" foot ulcers. Brand, who collaborated with coauthor Yancey on Fearfully and Wonderfully Made , offers practical, wise advice on coping with, and learning from, physical pain as well as grief or emotional trauma."

From _Library Journal_:

"This volume presents Brand's discourse on pain in the form of his memoirs, for he "learned about pain not systematically, but experientially." Son of British missionaries to India, young Brand observed the native population's resolute acceptance and bearing of pain. It was the absence of pain in his leprosy patients, observed over 50 years of pioneering medical practice and research in India and the United States, that taught Brand pain's value. For to live without pain, he concluded, is to live in constant peril of unchecked injury and illness. Through medical explanations and vivid examples, he refutes the modern view of pain as the enemy. He then offers practical advice for managing and heeding pain. The afterword compares the stigmas of leprosy and AIDS. Although quite detailed and sometimes technical, the book can be appreciated by general readers. For most serious psychology collections."