The Bioethics of Pain Management
Beyond Opioids
In this book, public health ethicist Daniel S. Goldberg sets out to characterize the subjective experience of pain and its undertreatment within the US medical establishment, and puts forward public policy recommendations for ameliorating the undertreatment of pain. The book begins from the position that the overwhelming focus on opioid analgesics as a means for improving the undertreatment of pain is flawed, and argues instead that dominant Western models of biomedicine and objectivity delegitimize subjective knowledge of the body and pain in the US. This general intolerance for the subjectivity of pain is part of a specific American culture…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-75359-9
- EAN: 9781317753599
- Produktnummer: 17028028
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 164 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'120 KB
- Abbildungen: 5 schwarz-weiße Fotos
Über den Autor
Daniel S. Goldberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.
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