The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain - Couverture rigide

Warraich, Haider

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1541675304 ISBN 13 : 9781541675308

Editeur : Basic Books, 2022

Synopsis

A doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effective

In The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience.

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.

Trenchant and deeply felt, The Song of Our Scars is an indictment of a broken system and a plea for a more holistic understanding of the human body. 
 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Haider Warraich is a doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the VA Boston Healthcare System. He is the author of Modern Death and State of the Heart, and regularly writes for the New York Times and Washington Post, among others. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1541675304
• ISBN 13: 9781541675308
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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