"...two hundred years ago, before the development of potent analgesics and surgical anaesthetics, the notion that physical pain could be banished from most people's lives would have seemed crankish and absurd. Most of us in the urban-industrial western nations now take its daily absence for granted. The prospect that what we describe as mental pain, too, could be eradicated is equally counter-intuitive. The biotechnical feasibility of its abolition turns its deliberate retention into an issue of social policy and ethical choice..."

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