{"product_id":"the-song-of-our-scars-the-untold-story-of-pain","title":"The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain","description":"A doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effective\n\nIn 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.\n\nWarraich, 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.\n\nTrenchant and deeply felt, The Song of Our Scars is an indictment of a broken system and a plea for a more holistic understanding of the human body.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1541675304\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1541675304.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Warraich, Haider\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43338096050237,"sku":"BVV.1541675304.G","price":6.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1541675304-0.jpg?v=1783905969","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-song-of-our-scars-the-untold-story-of-pain","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}