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Author Wailoo, Keith, author.

Title Pain : a political history / Keith Wailoo
Published Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Trojan horse of pain -- Opening the gates of relief -- The conservative case against learned helplessness -- Divided states of analgesia -- Oxycontin unleashed
Summary This book examines how pain and compassionate relief define a line between society's liberal trends and conservative tendencies. Tracing the development of pain theories in politics, medicine, and law, and legislative and social quarrels over the morality and economics of relief, the author points to a tension at the heart of the conservative-liberal divide
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-273) and index
Notes English
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Subject Pain -- Treatment -- United States
Pain -- Treatment -- Political aspects -- United States
Pain medicine -- Political aspects -- United States
Medical policy -- United States -- History
Politics, Practical.
Analgesics.
Pain Management -- history
Health Policy -- history
Politics
Pain -- psychology
History, 21st Century
History, 20th Century
Analgesics
politics.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Politics, Practical
Analgesics
Medical policy
Pain -- Treatment
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781421413662
1421413663