A doctor&rsquo;s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine&rsquo;s failure to understand pain has made care less effective In&#160;The Song of Our Scars,&#160;physician&#160;Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience. Warraich,&#160;himself&#160;a sufferer of chronic pain,&#160;considers the ways our notions of pain have been shaped not just by science but by politics and power,&#160;by&#160;whose suffering mattered and whose didn&rsquo;t.&#160;He weaves&#160;a provocative history&#160;from the&#160;Renaissance, when pain&#160;transformed into a medical issue,&#160;through&#160;the racial legacy of pain tolerance,&#160;to the opiate epidemics of both the&#160;nineteenth&#160;and&#160;twenty-first&#160;centuries, to the cutting edge of present-day pain science. The&#160;conclusion&#160;is clear: only by reckoning with both pain&rsquo;s&#160;complicated...

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