The Bioethics of Pain Management: Beyond Opioids

ISBN-13: 9780815372011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 146 str.

Daniel S. Goldberg

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Power of the Visible & the Undertreatment of Pain in the U.S.  Section I: The Lived Experience of Pain  1. The Current State of Pain in the United States  2. The Lived Experience of Pain  Section II: History, the Power of the Visible, and Pain  3. The History of Pain without Lesion in Mid-to-Late Nineteenth Century America  4. Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Why the History of Pain is Relevant to its Contemporary Undertreatment  Section III: Ethics, Subjectivity, and Pain  5. Mind-Body Dualism, Subjectivity, and Consciousness  6. Pain, Objectivity, and Bioethics  Section IV: Towards Ethical, Evidence-Based Pain Policy  7. Opioids & Pain Policy  8. Evidence-Based Pain Policy Recommendations  Conclusion

O autorze

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