Exhibition: "Converging Pathways of Pain Research at NIDCR" (DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Museum of Medical Research On-Line Exhibition)
A website which will interest some HISTNEUR-ons: "Converging Pathways of Pain Research at NIDCR" DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Museum of Medical Research On-Line Exhibit http://www.nih.gov/od/museum/exhibits/pain/ "Pain is a universally known and feared human condition, yet surely it is one of the least understood. Within this century it has been a philosophic problem, an enigma of neurophysiology, a psychological puzzle, a challenge to anesthesiologists, oncologists, nurses, clinicians of all kinds; and much of what we now think we know about pain still seems contradictory and paradoxical. "Here is another puzzle: how did the most versatile and productive pain research unit at NIH establish itself in the National Institute of Dental Research?" Exhibit Contents: - Beginnings of pain research at NIDR - A new multidisciplinary unit - Behavioral & neural responses to pain - Testing old & new drugs for pain - A laboratory model for clinical pain - The biochemistry & genetics of pain - Exhibit index Credits: The Pain Research at NIDCR on-line exhibit was created by Marcia Meldrum, PhD, 1998-1999 DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology, and designed by Mary Colella (IITRI) with the help of Dianne Gannon (IITRI). Cover illustration by Betty Hebb of the Medical Arts and Photography Branch, NIH. ___________________________________________________ Russell A. Johnson rjohnson@library.ucla.edu