{"product_id":"the-song-of-our-scars-haider-warraich-9781541675308","title":"The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain","description":"\u003cb\u003eA doctor's personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine's failure to understand pain has made care less effective\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Song of Our Scars\u003c\/i\u003e, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWarraich, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTrenchant and deeply felt, \u003ci\u003eThe Song of Our Scars \u003c\/i\u003eis an indictment of a broken system and a plea for a more holistic understanding of the human body. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Haider Warraich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1541675304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541675308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.51h x 6.31w x 1.14d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022 pg. 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/07\/2022","brand":"Haider Warraich","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44049504108799,"sku":"9781541675308","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f99b46f1-d6a1-4b52-a08b-d65358148799.jpg?v=1685001881","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-song-of-our-scars-haider-warraich-9781541675308","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}