The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain

by Haider Warraich

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541675304
• ISBN13: 9781541675308
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"