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What we don't know about pain

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  1. Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Cerebral Functions Research Group, University College, London

    P. D. Wall & C. J. Woolf

  2. lecturer in the Physiology Department of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anatomy, University College, London

    P. D. Wall & C. J. Woolf

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