Inquiring Minds

The Misunderstood Nature of Pain with Haider Warraich

Apr 19, 2022

47:30

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Is There Any Inherent Value in Pain?

05:27

The Placebo Effect in Chronic Pain

04:58

Anesthesia Isn't Psychogenic

05:27

Introduction

3min

The Song of Our Stars, a New Physician's Book

2min

What Is Pain?

4min

Pain and the Opiote Epidemic

2min

Is There a Consciousness to Pain?

5min

The Relationship Between Pain and Fear

5min

Anesthesia Isn't Psychogenic

5min

Is There Any Inherent Value in Pain?

5min

The Keys Out of Chronic Pain

2min

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Is Pain Management a Part of the Domain of Medicine?

5min

11.

The Placebo Effect in Chronic Pain

5min

12.

Are We Putting a Blast on Our Physicians?

4min

How do you define how painful something is? On the show this week we welcome back physician, writer, and clinical researcher Haider Warraich to talk about his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. Warraich explores the idea that far from being something objective and easily defined, pain is complex, misunderstood, and culturally influenced. The book delves into the history of pain and explains how our understanding of it has been “shaped not just by science but by politics and power, by whose suffering mattered and whose didn’t.”

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