Melanie Thernstrom

Arguing that the American medical industry adheres to outdated pain-management practices that fail to bring effective relief to millions of patients, a history of pain management describes some of the colorful approaches of past cultures while offering reassuring profiles of available treatments.

Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering

The Pain Chronicles

Originally published: New York: Pocket Books, 1990.

The Dead Girl

Offers the complete story of the murder-suicide of two immigrant girls at Harvard and the efforts of administrators to minimize the tragedy to protect Harvard's reputation

Diary of a Harvard Murder

Halfway Heaven

Offers the complete story of the murder-suicide of two immigrant girls at Harvard University and the efforts of administrators to minimize the tragedy to protect Harvard's reputation. Reprint.

The author recounts the particulars of the murder of her best friend--bright Berkeley college student Roberta Lee--at the hands of her boyfriend, and the subsequent trial

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