| Description |
1 online resource (165 pages) |
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Routledge Annals of Bioethics |
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Routledge annals of bioethics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: The Power of the Visible and the Undertreatment of Pain in the U.S.; SECTION I The Lived Experience of Pain; 1 The Current State of Pain in the United States; 2 The Lived Experience of Pain; SECTION II History, the Power of the Visible, and Pain; 3 The History of Pain without Lesion in Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century America; 4 Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Why the History of Pain is Relevant to Its Contemporary Undertreatment; SECTION III Ethics, Subjectivity, and Pain |
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5 Mind-Body Dualism, Subjectivity, and Consciousness6 Pain, Objectivity, and Bioethics; SECTION IV Towards Ethical, Evidence-Based Pain Policy; 7 Opioids and Pain Policy; 8 Evidence-Based Pain Policy Recommendations; Conclusion; Afterword; Index |
| Summary |
In this book, public health ethicist Daniel S. Goldberg sets out to characterize the subjective experience of pain and its undertreatment within the US medical establishment, and puts forward public policy recommendations for ameliorating the undertreatment of pain. The book begins from the position that the overwhelming focus on opioid analgesics as a means for improving the undertreatment of pain is flawed, and argues instead that dominant Western models of biomedicine and objectivity delegitimize subjective knowledge of the body and pain in the US. This general intolerance for the subjec |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chronic pain -- Treatment -- United States -- Moral and ethical issues
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Opioids -- Therapeutic use -- Moral and ethical issues
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Opioid abuse -- United States
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Medical ethics.
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Ethics, Medical
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Medical ethics.
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Opioid abuse.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317753599 |
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1317753593 |
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