The Song of Our Scars

by Author Haider Warraich MD

  • Publisher Basic Books
  • Year published 2022
  • ISBN: ISBN 978-1541675292
  • Number of pages 320 pages
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The Song of our Scars
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A doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effective. Warraich, himself a sufferer of chronic pain, considers the ways our notions of pain have been shaped not just by science but by politics and power, by whose suffering mattered and whose didn’t. He weaves a provocative history from the Renaissance, when pain transformed into a medical issue, through the racial legacy of pain tolerance, to the opiate epidemics of both the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, to the cutting edge of present-day pain science. The conclusion is clear: only by reckoning with both pain’s complicated history and its biology can today’s doctors adequately treat their patients’ suffering. ebook icon Audio book icon

Haider Warraich MD
About the Author
Author description

Dr. Haider Warraich graduated from medical school in Pakistan in 2009. He did his residency in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, one of the main teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School. He is currently a fellow in cardiology at Duke University Medical Center. His medical and Op Ed pieces have appeared in many media outlets including the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, and the Los Angeles Times among others.

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