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The Politics of Pain Medicine: A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry Illustrated Edition, Kindle Edition
In The Politics of Pain Medicine: A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry, S. Scott Graham offers a rich and detailed exploration of the medical rhetoric surrounding pain medicine. Graham chronicles the work of interdisciplinary pain management specialists to found a new science of pain and a new approach to pain medicine grounded in a more comprehensive biospychosocial model. His insightful analysis demonstrates how these materials ultimately shape the healthcare community’s understanding of what pain medicine is, how the medicine should be practiced and regulated, and how practitioner-patient relationships are best managed. It is a fascinating, novel examination of one of the most vexing issues in contemporary medicine.
- ISBN-13978-0226264059
- EditionIllustrated
- PublisherThe University of Chicago Press
- Publication dateNovember 17, 2015
- LanguageEnglish
- File size3.4 MB
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"The Politics of Pain Medicine, as a title, understates the comprehensive coverage of the complex topic of pain that can be found in this book's pages. Especially striking is Graham's deconstruction of the history of pain research into a variety of strands, each of which corresponds to a distinct mode of relating to the phenomena of pain. Even scholars who do not share Graham’s preoccupation with the role of rhetoric in the study of science and technology will come away with a more sophisticated understanding of why pain has been such a controversial and revealing site in the politics of medical practice. Moreover, fully aware of the closeness of pain to our sense of human dignity, Graham concludes the book with a sober reflection on what difference he thinks his inquiry can make to the future of pain as both an object of research and a personal experience." -- Steve Fuller, University of Warwick
"The ancient rhetorical term kairos denotes the moment of opportunity for a particular sort of discursive intervention. Graham unfolds the 'synergy' between a contemporary biopsychosocial model in pain science and the turn in critical theory to new materialism and ontology, exposing both modernist and postmodernist explanatory fallacies. With remarkable theoretical agility, he gives us a thoroughly kairotic, pleasingly generative, and importantly interdisciplinary, approach to a wicked problem human beings have been contending with forever." -- Judy Z. Segal, University of British Columbia
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Product details
- ASIN : B017EPEKRC
- Publisher : The University of Chicago Press; Illustrated edition (November 17, 2015)
- Publication date : November 17, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 3.4 MB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 340 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,275,604 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #96 in Clinical Pharmacology
- #338 in Pharmacology Pain Medicine
- #564 in Rhetoric (Kindle Store)
About the author

S. Scott Graham teaches rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas at Austin. He studies the communication dimensions of translating biomedical research into clinical practice and health policy. See more at sscottgraham.com.
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