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World Service,15 Aug 2001,24 mins

Pain and its role

Discovery

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The role of acute pain in the human body. It is the body's way of telling us something is wrong and with sufficient force to make us attend to it. Until 40 years ago the role of pain was unknown, but the 'gate theory' proved to a breakthrough, as the programme finds out.

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