Bioethics of Pain Management Beyond Opioids

This book sets out to characterize the subjective experience of pain and its undertreatment, and puts forward public policy recommendations for ameliorating the undertreatment of pain. Goldberg argues that the US medical establishment's overwhelming focus on opioid analgesics is flawed, and that the general intolerance for the subjectivity of pain is part of a specific American culture of pain tha implicates not only physicians and health care providers, but also pain sufferers, caregivers, and policymakers. Concentrating primarily on bioethics, history, and public policy, the book brings a truly interdisciplinary approach to an urgent practical ethical problem.

About the author

Daniel S. Goldberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel S. Goldberg, Goldberg Daniel S., Daniel S Goldberg, Daniel S. (East Carolina University Goldberg
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 28.11.2017
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History
• EAN: 9780815372011
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-7201-1
• Pages: 146
• Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics
• Subjects: History, Sociology, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, MEDICAL / Ethics, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Spinal Cord, pain management, Mind-Body, Philosophy of Science, Pain & pain management, History of Medicine, Ethics & moral philosophy, Addiction, Social issues & processes, Pharmacology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Pain and pain management, Dualism, Social and ethical issues, Medical Sociology, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Opioid, FMRI, opioids, Analgesia, Pain policy, Analgesic, mind body dualism, pharmacological, Progressive Disease, IOM report, prescription drug misuse, Chronic Non-Cancer Pain, Burn Surgeon, pain sufferers, Modern Clinical Method, Chronic Pain Sufferers, Congenital Analgesia, Opioid Policy, Long Term Usage Opioids, pain assessment disparities, Chronic Illness Sufferers, Pain Prevalence, Anatomoclinical Method, Pain Stigma, Western Populations State, Specific Tissue Pathology, Dominant Policy Approach, ethical frameworks for pain treatment, Illness Sufferers, Objectified Visible Image, epidemiology of pain, Evidence Based Health Policy, David B. Morris, phenomenology of pain, Spinal Irritation