How We Hurt
The Politics of Pain in the Opioid Epidemic
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 November 2023
- ISBN 9780197698235
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 235x157x12 mm
- Weight 295 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 b/w figures 552
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Short description:
How We Hurt explores the origins and evolution of the ongoing opioid overdose epidemic in North America, focusing specifically on how a shifting politics of pain paved the way for the current crisis. Using archival and qualitative research, Melina Sherman traces the history of pain and reveals how the opioid crisis has evolved alongside new conceptions of addiction that condition whose pain is seen as legitimate and whose is not.
MoreLong description:
How We Hurt dives into the institutional and cultural dimensions of the ongoing opioid epidemic. In a detailed analysis of pain management, opioid regulation, pharmaceutical branding, self-help, and public discourses on opioid addiction, Melina Sherman argues that the linchpin underlying the opioid epidemic's evolution in North America is the problem of pain. By unpacking the politics of pain in different domains, How We Hurt shows how the crisis emerged and shifted, and why it looks the way it does today. The book's chapters begin by tracing the trajectory of opioids in pain management, where decisions regarding the measurement of pain led to relief becoming wedded to opioids in medicine. The following chapters examine the problem of pain in opioid regulation, pharmaceutical branding, and the self-help industry. In these areas, a disastrous combination of strategic ignorance and deep-seated ties between public health entities and pharmaceutical companies drove the influx of opioids onto the market and into our medicine cabinets. The book's penultimate chapter applies the analysis of pain to the problem of opioid addiction in popular discourse and shows how the opioid crisis has evolved alongside new conceptions of addiction and people who use opioids that condition whose pain is seen as legitimate and whose is not. Finally, the book concludes by considering the implications of its findings for the development of drug policy and future research on public health disasters, insisting on an interdisciplinary and multi-faceted approach to the study of pain and its place American culture.
Pain is the root of the opioid crisis. In this stunning book, Melina Sherman takes us to the depths of American despair, the heights of pharmaceutical corruption, and the netherworld where narcotic promises dissolve. How We Hurt is an incendiary, infuriating, and utterly necessary book."
Eric Klinenberg, author of 2020: A Social Autopsy and Palaces for the People
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Opening
Chapter 1: Tracing the Painkiller Revolution
Chapter 2: Strategic Ignorance in Opioid Regulation
Chapter 3: Branding Pain Relief
Chapter 4: Self-Help and the Rise of the Pain Patient-Expert
Chapter 5: Pain's New Faces
Closing
References
Index
How We Hurt: The Politics of Pain in the Opioid Epidemic
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