How We Hurt: The Politics of Pain in the Opioid Epidemic

by Sherman

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C2ZR1STK
• ISBN13: 9780197698235
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"