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01.08.2010 | Book and New Media Reviews
Pharmacology of Pain
Pierre Beaulieu, David Lussier, Frank Porreca, and Anthony H. Dickenson. IASP Press, Seattle, WA, 2010, 622 pp, $100, ISBN 978-0-931092-78-7
verfasst von:
Geoff A. Bellingham, MD
Erschienen in:
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
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Ausgabe 8/2010
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Excerpt
This publication by the IASP Press provides readers with an update on the current status of knowledge regarding the pharmacology of pain. As noted in the editors’ preface, the most recent textbook on this subject—edited by Dickenson, Besson, and Appleton—was published in 1997, at a time when some neuropathic pain agents that are currently recommended were as yet unavailable. As such, this comprehensive review of analgesic mechanisms provides a timely update in the literature, filling a gap that has spanned more than a decade. …