It's hard to imagine pain as a "gift," but that's the compelling conclusion of Dr. Paul Brand, who has spent his remarkable life studying pain and its implications for medical treatment, overall health, and human happiness. From Paul Brand, M.D., and Philip Yancey, who have collaborated on the bestselling Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and In His Image, here is the inspiring story of Dr. Brand's fifty-year career as a healer. Born to missionary parents in India, Paul Brand grew up in exotic circumstances that helped to form his view of the key role pain plays in human health. We follow Dr. Brand from his early years in India, where physical pain is expected and tolerated much more so than in the West, through his almost accidental medical training in wartime England, and then on to his return to India, where his work as a hand surgeon led to astonishing breakthroughs in the treatment of leprosy. Most of the ravages of that disease, he found, trace back to the simple loss of pain sensation: without the protection of pain, leprosy patients were destroying themselves. Dr. Brand's career carried him next to America's famous Carville, Louisiana, leprosarium, where his pioneering work also provided fascinating insights into treatment for other more common ailments, such as diabetes. From a lifetime of discoveries about the sensation of pain, Dr. Brand has come to an unusual acceptance of pain as a necessary part of our lives and an important ally in medical treatment and true health. In this provocative book, Dr. Brand discusses eloquently the personal and societal implications of this country's inability to accept or deal with pain, and provides a strong case for each individual to learn how to make a friend of pain. "For good and for ill," he concludes, "the human species has among its priviledges the preeminence of pain ... feats of consciousness make it possible for suffering to loiter in the mind long after the body's need for it has passed. Yet they also give u

The Gift Nobody Wants: The Inspiring Story of a Surgeon Who Discovers Why We Hurt and What We Can Do About It

Biographies & Memoirs

Brand, Dr. Paul

Brand, Paul

ey, Philip Yancey

Leaders & Notable People

Perennial

A WORLD WITHOUT PAIN?Can such a place exist? It not only can―it does. But it’s no utopia. It’s a colony for leprosy patients: a world where people literally feel no pain, and reap horrifying consequences.His work with leprosy patients in India and the United States convinced Dr. Paul Brand that pain truly is one of God’s great gifts to us. In this inspiring story of his fifty-year career as a healer, Dr. Brand probes the mystery of pain and reveals its importance. As an indicator that lets us know something is wrong, pain has a value that becomes clearest in its absence.The Gift of Pain looks at what pain is and why we need it. Together, the renowned surgeon and award-winning writer Philip Yancey shed fresh light on a gift that none of us want and none of us can do without.

The Gift of Pain: Why We Hurt and What We Can Do About It

YANCEY, Philip

Professionals & Academics

Zondervan

The human body is a likeness of God, its design revealing insights into the church, the “body of Christ” For bestselling author Philip Yancey, the late Dr. Paul Brand―the brilliant hand surgeon who devoted his life to the poorest people of India and Louisiana―was also a likeness of God, living the kind of Christian life that exemplified what God must have had in mind. In the Likeness of God combines the complete texts of Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and In His Image―both Gold Medallion Award–winners which together have sold more than half a million copies―into one volume. Also included for the first time are eight beautiful litanies of praise on the human body by Dr. Brand. In Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, Dr. Paul Brand and bestselling writer Philip Yancey explore the wonder of the human body and uncover the eternal statements that God has made in the very structure of our bodies. Their remarkable journey through inner space―the world of cells, systems, and chemistry―points to a still deeper unseen reality of God’s work in our lives. In His Image takes up where the first book leaves off. In five sections―Image, Blood, Head, Spirit, and Pain―the authors unlock the remarkable living lessons contained in our physical makeup.

In the Likeness of God: The Dr. Paul Brand Tribute Edition of Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and In His Image

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

The human body is an endlessly fascinating repository of secrets. The miracle of the skin, the strength and structure of the bones, the dynamic balance of the muscles . . . Your physical being is knit according to a pattern of incredible purpose. In Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, renowned surgeon Dr. Paul Brand and best-selling writer Philip Yancey explore the human body. Join them in a remarkable journey through inner space--a spellbinding world of cells, systems, and chemistry that bears the impress of a still deeper, unseen reality of God's work in our lives. This Gold Medallion Award-winning book uncovers eternal statements that God has made in the very structure of our bodies, presenting captivating insights into the Body of Christ. In His Image takes up where Fearfully and Wonderfully Made leaves off, beckoning us once again inward and onward to fresh exploration and discovery. Yancey and Brand show how accurately and intricately the human body portrays the Body of Christ. In five sections---Image, Blood, Head, Spirit, and Pain---the acclaimed surgeon and the award-winning writer unlock the remarkable, living lessons contained in our physical makeup. This Gold Medallion Award-winning book will open your eyes to the complex miracle of the human body, and the even more compelling spiritual truths that it reflects. In addition to the material of both books being updated, for the first time eight beautiful litanies of praise by Dr. Brand on the human body are included.

Mysterious, intricate, pulsing with energy...The human body is an endlessly fascinating repository of secrets. The miracle of the skin, the strength and structure of the bones, the dynamic balance of the muscles . . .your physical being is knit according to a pattern of incredible purpose. In Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, renowned surgeon Dr. Paul Brand and best-selling writer Philip Yancey explore the human body. Join them in a remarkable journey through inner space -- a spellbinding world of cells, systems, and chemistry that bears the impress of a still deeper, unseen reality. This Gold medallion Award-winning book uncovers eternal statements that God has made in the very structure of our bodies, presenting captivating insights into the Body of Christ.

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Health, Fitness & Dieting

THE VOICE OF GOD IS A HEARTBEAT AWAY In Fearfully &amp; Wonderfully Made, Philip Yancey and Dr. Paul Brand revealed how God’s voice is encoded in the very structure of our bodies. In His Image takes up where its predecessor left off, beckoning us once again inward and onward to fresh exploration and discovery. Yancey and Brand show how accurately and intricately the human body portrays the Body of Christ. In five sections―Image, Blood, Head, Spirit, and Pain―the acclaimed surgeon and the award-winning writer unlock the remarkable, living lessons contained in our physical makeup. This Gold Medallion Award-winning book will open your eyes to the complex miracle of the human body, and the even more compelling spiritual truths that it reflects.

In His Image

From the Publisher A compelling look at Dr. Brand's 50-year career, focusing on his pioneering studies into the value of being able to experience pain.

The Gift Nobody Wants

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

This book consists of a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation--the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267. In establishing the political and legal context of these statutes and examining the process of drafting them, the volume utilizes an exceptionally wide range of manuscript sources. Revealing how the legislation was used and interpreted up to 1307, it is the first major work on any of the statutes in this period of major legislative change.

Kings, Barons and Justices: The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 56)

History

Europe

Cambridge University Press

This book consists of a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation--the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267. In establishing the political and legal context of these statutes and examining the process of drafting them, the volume utilizes an exceptionally wide range of manuscript sources. Revealing how the legislation was used and interpreted up to 1307, it is the first major work on any of the statutes in this period of major legislative change.

Brand shows how changes in the organization and structure of the courts and the ways in which litigation was conducted in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries contributed to the emergence of professional lawyers and eventually of a recognizable legal profession. Brand draws on research on the plea roles and law reports to provide a detailed picture of the legal profession during the first phase of its existence, the reign of Edward I. He estimates the size of the profession and looks at the functions that lawyers provided for their clients. He also examines the arrangements made for the training of legal practitioners and for controlling entry into the profession and the development and enforcement of a code of professional ethics for legal practitioners. The book concludes with a comparison between the new profession serving the common law courts and its counterpart which served the English Church courts, the canon lawyers.

The Origins of the English Legal Profession

World

Blackwell Pub.

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The Gift Nobody Wants: The Inspiring Story of a Surgeon Who Discovers Why We Hurt and What We Can Do About It

The Gift of Pain: Why We Hurt and What We Can Do About It

In the Likeness of God: The Dr. Paul Brand Tribute Edition of Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and In His Image

In the Likeness of God: The Dr. Paul Brand Tribute Edition of Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and In His Image

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

In His Image

The Gift Nobody Wants

Kings, Barons and Justices: The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 56)

Kings, Barons and Justices: The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 56)

The Origins of the English Legal Profession