Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Pain

Proceedings of the August 1996 congress, with sections on pain in society, transition of pain from acute to chronic, neurobiology of persistent pain, pharmacology of pain, neurotrophic factors and pain, quantitative measures of pain, musculoskeletal pain, neuropathic pain, psychosocial factors in pain, cancer pain, new insights into opioid analgesics, processing and imaging of pain, and pain in infants, children, and the elderly. Specific topics include cultural influences on pain, the nociceptive system, the pharmacology of new agonists and antagonists in peripheral nociception, and cloned opioid receptors. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR