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APS Bulletin • Volume 19, Number 2, 2009
Resource Reviews
John D. Loeser, MD, Department Editor
Current Topics in Pain: 12th World Congress on Pain
Reviewed by John D. Loeser, MD
José Castro-Lopes, ed. Seattle, IASP Press, 2009. Soft cover, 344 pages. ISBN 978-0-931092-76-3. $30 IASP members, $36 nonmembers.
This book consists of 17 essays derived from invited plenary lectures at the 12th World Congress on Pain in Glasgow in August 2008. Each essay is appropriately illustrated with figures (some in color) and tables and a thorough bibliography. The book is dedicated to the late Mitchell Max, whose lecture (and the included essay) on the importance of genome-wide association studies was one of the highlights of the meeting. The majority of the essays highlight basic science topics, but important clinical topics such as the validity of randomized clinical trials and pain in the developing world are also included. This book is a marker of the progress in some of the sciences that underlie pain research and management. Our field continues to develop and IASP compiles an exciting array of lecturers for its Congress.
Dr. Loeser is Professor Emeritus of Neurological Surgery and Anesthesiology at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
