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Pain - A Political History (Paperback)
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In this history of American political culture, Keith Wailoo
examines how pain has defined the line between liberals and
conservatives from just after World War II to the present. From
disabling pain to end-of-life pain to fetal pain, the battle over
whose pain is real and who deserves relief has created stark
ideological divisions at the bedside, in politics, and in the
courts. Beginning with the return of soldiers after World War II
and fierce medical and political disagreements about whether pain
constitutes a true disability, Wailoo explores the 1960s rise of an
expansive liberal pain standard along with the emerging conviction
that subjective pain was real, disabling, and compensable. These
concepts were attacked during the Reagan era, when a conservative
backlash led to diminished disability aid and an expanding role of
courts as arbiters in the politicized struggle to define pain. New
fronts in pain politics opened nationwide as advocates for death
with dignity insisted that end-of-life pain warranted full relief,
while the religious right mobilized around fetal pain. The book
ends with the 2003 OxyContin arrest of conservative talk show host
Rush Limbaugh, a cautionary tale about deregulation and the
widening gaps between the overmedicated and the undertreated.
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