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About
about
The Dead Girl
(Pocket, 1990),
Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder
(Doubleday, 1997) and
The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Scie...
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Pain Chronicles
pain chronicles
In
The Pain Chronicles, Melanie Thernstrom traces conceptions of pain
throughout the ages—from ancient Babylonian pain-banishing spells to modern
brain imaging—to reveal the elusive,...
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Articles
articles
Tablet Magazine, October 2, 2018
For more than three millennia, the Yazidi people had lived clustered around the sacred Sinjar Mountains in Northern Iraq. It was there, in the small hours of...
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The Pain Chronicles
reviews
“There have been hundreds of books published in the last decades on pain and its management, but none that combine memoir, scholarly research and journalistic reportage . . .
A stellar examp...
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Halfway Heaven
halfway heaven
In May 1995, on the last day of their junior year at Harvard University, Sinedu Tadesse murdered her roommate Trang Ho, and then committed suicide.
Sinedu had arrived at Harvard from E...
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The Dead Girl
The Dead Girl
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
One Sunday in November 1984, Roberta (Bibi) Lee, a Berkeley student, went running with her boyfriend, Bradley Page, in a state park...