Pain: A Political History Hardcover – April 21, 2014
Author: Keith Wailoo | Language: English | ISBN: 1421413655 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Review
Physicians and social scientists are aware that individual pain is complex and elusive—an aggregate of physiology, cultural context, and idiosyncrasy. Wailoo has added a significant analytic dimension to this understanding of pain by incorporating the domains of ideology and politics as they are reflected in policy. A highly original and persuasively argued contribution by one of America's most prominent historians of medicine and society, Pain will attract a wide and thoughtful readership.
(Charles E. Rosenberg, Harvard University)Wailoo's ambitious volume tells post–World War Two American political history through the story of pain: its cultural meanings, economic costs, and bureaucratic management and its political uses and abuses. No other work I know of sustains such a macro-analysis while attending to pain's medical, moral, and media significances. And reading it hurts not—and for policy makers might even be therapeutic! Bravo!
(Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University)At once capacious and focused, Pain expands on the cultural histories of this compelling topic by admirably developing the political construction of the elusive and yet ever-so-material experience of pain. The politics of pain, disability, medicine, and suicide emerge as Wailoo’s book ranges across the rhetoric of a 'bleeding heart' liberal to the conservative uses of rugged individualism in relation to the pharmaceutical industry.
(Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University)In this remarkable book, Keith Wailoo explores the long American struggle over pain. Liberals feel your pain. Conservatives fear entitlement and welfare. Wailoo traces the conflict from the battlefields of World War II to the rise of deregulation, from fetal pain to OxyContin. Beautifully written, broad ranging, deep, wise, unexpected, and endlessly fascinating.
(James A. Morone, author of Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History and co-author of The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office)I wasn't sure what a palliative care doctor was doing reading about the political history of pain, but I soon found it hard to put down... Anyone who works in palliative care and has a broader interested in the political and legal aspects of pain management and physician-assisted suicide will enjoy this book.
(Roger Woodruff International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care)About the Author
Keith Wailoo is the Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs and Vice Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is author of The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease and Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America, and he is coeditor of Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine’s Simple Solutions, all published by Johns Hopkins.
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- Hardcover: 296 pages
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press (April 21, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1421413655
- ISBN-13: 978-1421413655
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #520,273 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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