Chronic pain is a part and parcel of human existence. As medical science makes phenomenal advances in combating disease, including chronic pain, it finds new ways to persist in our consciousness. Dr Akhtar Purvez’s new book provides insight into anatomical, physiological and psychological aspects of pain. Readers will understand what causes pain, how it is felt and transmitted, and then modified/modulated in the peripheral and central nervous system, including the brain. And the social and cultural conditioning that impacts it.