The Song of Our Scars

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 sufferin