The Painful Truth Author: [UK] Monty Lehmann Publisher: Tianjin Science and Technology Press

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🥼2019 Royal Society Science Book Award shortlisted author

🥼The winner of the 2020 Royal Society of Medicine Pain Paper Award!

Why doesn't it hurt so much when you don't notice the wound? Why does it hurt when you see someone else getting hurt? Does loneliness also hurt? What is phantom limb pain? Why do you still feel pain after the wound has healed?

Everyone is afraid of pain, but not everyone understands "pain". It can even be said that our previous understanding of pain was wrong.

In recent years, the field of pain science has continued to develop, which has led to earth-shaking changes in people's understanding of pain. As Dr. Lehman reveals in this book, we have misunderstood pain and let it have harmful effects on humans. Dr. Lehman records a series of cutting-edge research from persistent pain to social pain, and also combines real cases of people who have personally encountered pain and those who have never felt pain to lead us out of the misunderstandings we have been trapped in for a long time. He not only provides us with hope to control and relieve pain, but also gives us a deeper understanding of the meaning of life.

🩺Subvert your perception of pain and make you no longer afraid of pain

Injured during exercise, it hurts! Sitting for a whole day in study or office, it hurts! In daily life, it hurts when you are inevitably bumped! In the traditional impression, pain is the body's cry when we are hurt, and it is a symptom that occurs when there is a problem with the body... Now, Dr. Monty Lehman has put forward a subversive view: pain is not a detector of disease, but a defender of the body! Changing our understanding of pain from the root, introducing the pain mechanism from a scientific perspective, so that we are no longer so afraid of pain, look at our own health problems more objectively and rationally, and live more calmly.

🩹Analyze the reasons for pain from all aspects. We feel pain not only because there is something wrong with our body.

Why didn't it hurt so much when I didn't notice the wound? Why did I try multiple medications but only treated the symptoms and not the root cause? Why do I feel pain when I see others get hurt? What is phantom limb pain? Can loneliness also make me feel pain? Do disadvantaged groups feel more pain? ... Dr. Lehman explores the impact of people's lives on their physical feelings from all aspects of daily life, including society, culture, and social interaction, and finds the cause of pain for everyone.

💊Not only analyzing why it hurts, but also exploring how to treat it

Did you know that besides seeking medical treatment and taking medicine, there are simpler ways to relieve pain: laughing is the best way to relieve pain; reducing alcohol and caffeine intake is also an effective measure to relieve pain; people suffering from persistent pain need more companionship... Not limited to the causes of pain, Dr. Lehman combines the actual situation and proposes corresponding and feasible solutions. Even if the book cannot "cure the disease", it can still make you gain something.

💉New work by medical popular science experts, condensing the latest medical research results

The author of this book, Dr. Monty Lehmann, is a finalist for the Royal Society Science Book Award and a researcher at Oxford University. He has won many national awards for medical writing, delivered speeches at national conferences, and won the 2020 Royal Society of Medicine Pain Paper Award. He is an authority in the British medical community. For this book, he referred to a large amount of relevant information, literature, and experimental data, combined with the latest research results in the field, and used a combination of examples to present the real "pain" to us, which is more valuable for reference.

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About the Author
Monty Lyman

Dr. Monty Lehmann is a physician, writer and researcher at the University of Oxford. His first book, The Extraordinary Life of the Skin, was shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Award and was named Book of the Year by BBC Radio 4 and The Sunday Times. He has spoken at many national conferences in the UK and has won several paper awards, including the 2020 Royal Society of Medicine Pain Paper Award. He lives in Oxford, UK.