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A doctors personal and unsparing account of how modern medicines failure to understand pain has made care less effective
InThe Song of Our ScarsphysicianHaider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain not as a simple physical sensation but as a cultural experience
Warraichhimselfa sufferer of chronic painconsiders the ways our notions of pain have been shaped not just by science but by politics and powerbywhose suffering mattered and whose didntHe weavesa provocative historyfrom theRenaissance when paintransformed into a medical issuethroughthe racial legacy of pain toleranceto the opiate epidemics of both thenineteenthandtwentyfirstcenturies to the cutting edge of presentday pain science Theconclusionis clear only by reckoning with both painscomplicated historyanditsbiologycan todays doctors adequately treat their patients suffering
Trenchant and deeply feltThe Song of Our Scarsisanindictment of abroken system and aplea for a more holistic understanding of the human body
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