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Warraich, Haider.
Subjects
Warraich, Haider -- Health.
Pain -- History.
Pain -- Treatment.
Pain -- Social aspects.
Chronic pain -- Physiological aspects.
Chronic pain -- Psychological aspects.
Chronic pain -- Patients -- Biography.
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The song of our scar...
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Warraich, Haider.
Warraich, Haider -- Health.
Pain -- History.
Pain -- Treatment.
Pain -- Social aspects.
Chronic pain -- Physiological aspects.
Chronic pain -- Psychological aspects.
Chronic pain -- Patients -- Biography.
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The
song
of
our
scars
: the
untold
story
of
pain
/ Haider Warraich.
by
Warraich, Haider.
Basic Books, 2022.
Call #:
616.0472 W295s
Subjects
Warraich, Haider -- Health.
Pain
-- History.
Pain
-- Treatment.
Pain
-- Social aspects.
Chronic
pain
-- Physiological aspects.
Chronic
pain
-- Psychological aspects.
Chronic
pain
-- Patients -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781541675308 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
vii, 307 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-292) and index.
Summary:
"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
, Haider Warraich offers a history of
pain
, both as a personal experience and as a medical ailment. We have only recently begun to treat
pain
as a purely physical sensation, and while the goal was to be able to offer safer, more reliable treatments, Warraich finds that it has actually had the opposite effect. Modern attitudes about
pain
paved the way for the opioid epidemic and made an already biased system of healthcare more racist, sexist, and classist: Your
pain
is more likely to be minimized or dismissed if you are a woman or a person of color, for example, and while the rich are offered ample assistance in managing opioid prescriptions, the poor are often left to fend for themselves. The medical community's attitudes toward
pain
have inspired us to make arbitrary and ill-supported distinctions between the 'real'
pain
of the body and the 'fake'
pain
that's in your head. And they have blinded us to the possibility that sometimes learning to live with your
pain
is better than trying to eliminate it. In the end, Warraich considers the possibility that
pain
, particularly chronic
pain
, is sometimes more usefully treated as an emotion than a sensation. A deeply felt investigation from a rising talent, The
Song
of
Our
Scars
is both a trenchant indictment of a system gone astray and an empathic plea for a more holistic understanding of the human body"--Publisher.
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