This is the UK version of McCaffery's "Pain: Clinical Manual for Nursing Practice", which is intended to be totally relevant to UK practice. The book introduces the complex and multifaceted problem of pain control with which nurses are daily confronted. The opening chapters related to the appropriate anatomy, physiology and development of pain theories. The book's adaptation also includes the assessment, measurement and observation of pain, as well as current practices employed in the UK. Taking the "whole person" approach, it covers methods of pain relief provision, from the use of simple relaxation/manipulation techniques, to drugs and their applications.