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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. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 616.0472 W295s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 616.0472 W295s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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