一位医生对现代医学无法理解疼痛如何导致治疗效果下降的个人和无情的描述
在《我们的伤疤之歌》中，海德尔·瓦莱奇医生大胆地重新审视了疼痛的本质，不是作为一种简单的身体感觉，而是作为一种文化体验。
Warraich本人就是慢性疼痛的患者，他认为我们对疼痛的概念不仅是由科学塑造的，也是由政治和权力塑造的，而政治和权力的痛苦是重要的，而政治和权力的痛苦不是重要的。他编织了一段从文艺复兴时期开始的具有挑衅性的历史，当时疼痛通过疼痛容忍的种族遗产转化为医学问题，19世纪和21世纪的鸦片类流行病，以及当今疼痛科学的前沿。结论很清楚：只有考虑到疼痛的复杂性。。。
The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain
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 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…
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