The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic

Containing patient vignettes as well as scientific and policy controversies that have emerged as the opioid epidemic has evolved, The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic examines the ethical and scientific concepts about pain that made the opioid epidemic possible and offers a new lens through which to view the opioid epidemic as a consequence of serious misunderstandings of both opioids and pain..

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The problems of pain in Western society -- 2. The medical dream of conquering pain -- 3. The emergence of a right to pain relief: A change in the meaning of pain -- 4. Chronic pain as a disease -- 5. Looking beyond a biopsychosocial model of pain -- 6. Pain medicine and the medicalization of chronic pain -- 7. Selling opioids as targeted painkillers -- 8. From causal to moral models of pain, and the right to pain relief -- 9. Finding a place for pain in medicine, in policy, and in life -- 10. Epilogue: Clinician's perspective: Dr. Clark's tale -- 11. Epilogue: Patient's perspective: My name is Reggie Winston -- Index..

Medienart:

E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

©2023

Erschienen:

Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated ; 2023

©2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sullivan, Mark [VerfasserIn]
Ballantyne, Jane [Mitwirkende/r]

Links:

ebookcentral.proquest.com [lizenzpflichtig]
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

978-0-19-761574-4

Themen:

Chronic pain-Treatment
Electronic books
Opioid abuse
Patient Rights

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Umfang:

1 online resource (230 pages)

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

182669594X