A Fine Line - Painkillers and Pleasure in the Age of Anxiety (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	September 2018
First published:	2019
Authors:	George C. Dertadian
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	285
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-981-13-1974-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	981-13-1974-X
Barcode:	9789811319747

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