SCIENCE OF PAIN
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SCIENCE OF PAIN
Editors Dr Allan I. Basbaum
University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Dr M. Catherine Bushnell McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Contents Introduction
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The Adequate Stimulus R D Treede