The Pain Scale

The idea that pain was normal started falling out of fashion in the fifties and sixties. There was serious political change, the civil rights movement and women's lib a small but growing sense that society needed to think more seriously about all kinds of experiences it never took seriously before. Pain suddenly became a thing that you could count, like white blood cells. But even the pain scale didn't do a ton to improve the treatment or status of pain in the medical world until one day in 19 95 when james campbell stepped into his bathroom.