Summary
"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... Full description
- 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.