{{Infobox book | image = Textbook of Pain (Book Cover).jpeg | publisher = [[Elsevier]] | pub_date = 1984 | isbn = 978-0702040597 }}
{{Short description|Medical textbook}} {{italic title}} '''''Wall & Melzack's Textbook of Pain''''' is a [[Medicine|medical]] [[textbook]] published by [[Elsevier]]. It is named after [[Patrick David Wall]] and [[Ronald Melzack]], who introduced the [[gate control theory]] into pain research in the 1960s. First released in 1984, the book has been described as "the most comprehensive scientific reference text in the field of pain medicine".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Rathmell|first=James P.|author2=Hill, Bradley |title=Wall and Melzack's Textbook of Pain, 5th E-dition.|journal=[[Anesthesia & Analgesia]]|date=June 2006|volume=102|issue=6|pages=1914|doi=10.1213/01.ANE.0000220485.92210.D3|doi-access=free}}</ref>
In 1999, the book went into its fourth edition, shortly before the death of its founding editor, [[Patrick David Wall]], in 2001.<ref>{{cite news|title=Patrick Wall, 76, British Authority on Pain|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/21/world/patrick-wall-76-british-authority-on-pain.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=27 April 2014|date=21 August 2001|quote=He was the founding editor of Pain, the foremost journal on the subject. With Dr. Melzack he edited the authoritative ''Textbook of Pain'' (1983), which went into its fourth edition in 1999.}}</ref> It is currently in its 6th edition.
== See also == * ''[[Practical Management of Pain]]''
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==External links== * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060613235101/http://www.textbookofpain.com/ Wall & Melzack's ''Textbook of Pain'']}} {{Modern medical textbooks}} [[Category:1980 non-fiction books]] [[Category:Elsevier books]] [[Category:Pain management]] [[Category:Physical therapy books]] [[Category:Medical manuals]]
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