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A Fine Line

- Painkillers and Pleasure in the Age of Anxiety
Af: George C. Dertadian Engelsk Hardback

A Fine Line

- Painkillers and Pleasure in the Age of Anxiety
Af: George C. Dertadian Engelsk Hardback
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Are painkillers mundane medications safe for use to ease human suffering? Or are they drugs of abuse that cause addiction and death? Do they ameliorate pain, or do they cause it? This book explores growing interest among medical practitioners media outlets about the ''misuse'' or ''abuse'' of pharmaceutical pain medications. It contextualizes these emerging discourses of pharmaceutical ''abuse'' within the social and political histories from which they have emerged by exploring the role of pleasure and pain in shaping individualized modes of medication consumption in a neoliberal age of anxiety.

The book is divided into two parts: the first addresses the discursive construction of painkiller (ab)use as articulated in research and policy accounts; the second part provides an empirical investigation that draws on the lived experience of those who engage in non-medical consumption. This book argues that, contrary to the stereotype of the ''seductive'' drug that coaxes its user into a life of dysfunction, there appears to be an intimate relationship between the motivations of pleasure seeking, health practice and productive citizenship among people who use painkillers for non-medical reasons.
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Are painkillers mundane medications safe for use to ease human suffering? Or are they drugs of abuse that cause addiction and death? Do they ameliorate pain, or do they cause it? This book explores growing interest among medical practitioners media outlets about the ''misuse'' or ''abuse'' of pharmaceutical pain medications. It contextualizes these emerging discourses of pharmaceutical ''abuse'' within the social and political histories from which they have emerged by exploring the role of pleasure and pain in shaping individualized modes of medication consumption in a neoliberal age of anxiety.

The book is divided into two parts: the first addresses the discursive construction of painkiller (ab)use as articulated in research and policy accounts; the second part provides an empirical investigation that draws on the lived experience of those who engage in non-medical consumption. This book argues that, contrary to the stereotype of the ''seductive'' drug that coaxes its user into a life of dysfunction, there appears to be an intimate relationship between the motivations of pleasure seeking, health practice and productive citizenship among people who use painkillers for non-medical reasons.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 285
ISBN-13: 9789811319747
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 981131974X
Kategori: Kulturstudier
Udg. Dato: 26 sep 2018
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 148mm
Højde: 210mm
Forlag: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Oplagsdato: 26 sep 2018
Forfatter(e): George C. Dertadian
Forfatter(e) George C. Dertadian

Kategori Kulturstudier

ISBN-13 9789811319747

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 285

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 148mm

Højde 210mm

Udg. Dato 26 sep 2018

Oplagsdato 26 sep 2018

Forlag Springer Verlag, Singapore

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