- Springer Nature Singapore
- 2018
- Gebunden
- 308 Seiten
- ISBN 9789811319747
Are painkillers mundane medications safe for use to ease human suffering? Or are they drugs of abuse that cause addiction and death? Do they ameliorate pain, or do they cause it? This book explores growing interest among medical practitioners media outlets about the ¿misuse¿ or ¿abuse¿ of pharmaceutical pain medications. It contextualizes these emerging discourses of pharmaceutical ¿abuse¿ within the social and political histories from which they have emerged by exploring the role of pleasure and pain in shaping individualized modes of medication consumption in a neoliberal age of anxiety. The book is divided into two parts: the first addresses the discursive construction of painkiller (ab)use
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