The song of our scars the untold story of pain
"One evening, while completing his medical training in Pakistan, Haider Warraich went to the hospital gym to work out. He was in the middle of a set when he heard the sound of a loud click in his back. His body went limp, the weight held above his chest came crashing down, and Haider was rushed into...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The interpretation of agony : what we talk about when we talk about pain
- How we hurt : the biology of acute pain
- No end in sight : how chronic pain erases a person
- Rage inside the machine : the fundamental nature of chronic pain
- The god of dreams : the history of opium and the cultural transformation of pain
- Angel of mercy : how we learned to stop worrying and love the pill
- Crown of thorns : the hijacking of modern medicine
- The pain of the powerless : injustice and the arc of suffering
- All in the head : the future of the body in pain.
