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Article: Pain and Suffering
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- Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright Australian Society of Anaesthetists Oct 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Pain and Suffering. W K. Livingston; IASP Press, 909 NE 43rd St, Suite 306, Seattle, WA 98105, U.S.A.; US$48.00; 155 x 240 mm; pp. 250; ISBN: 0-931092-24-8.
William K. Livingston died in 1966, having worked on the manuscript for his book, Pain and Suffering, for the last 10 years of his life. He had published earlier in 1943 an influential book entitled Pain Mechanisms, arguably the first major critique of the specificity theory of pain transmission. One might ask, why in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, has the American Pain Society, in conjunction with the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Press, published a book based on a manuscript completed more than 30 ...