Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,13 Feb 2016,49 mins

Is Pain an Emotion?

Exchanges at the Frontier

Available for over a year

Professor Irene Tracey is known as the Queen of Pain. Her work demonstrates how simple pain can develop into chronic pain, how our emotions can override the effect of pain killers and what anaesthesia can tell us about consciousness. Image credit: Dental Instruments, Wellcome Library, London

Programme Website
More episodes