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Life in Pain - Affective Economy and the Demand for Pain Relief (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Life in Pain - Affective Economy and the Demand for Pain Relief (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book explores pain in a number of ways. At the heart of the
book is an extension of Melzack's neuromatrix theory of pain into
the social, cultural, and economic fields. Specific assemblages
involving varied institutions, flows of capital, encounters, and
social and economic structures provide a framework for the
formation of pain, its perception, experience, meaning, and
cultural production. Complementing the extended neuromatrix is a
second theory, focussed on the propensity of western market
capitalism to seek out new areas of life to subsume to capital.
Pain is one such life area that is now ripe for exploitation.
Although the book has theory at its heart, it draws extensively on
case studies to identify the contradictions and complexities. Case
studies are drawn from accounts of drug use in varied contexts such
as prescription drugs, methamphetamine use, oxycodone use in North
America, and the global rise of the medicinal cannabis marketplace.
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