1st Edition

The Bioethics of Pain Management Beyond Opioids

By Daniel S. Goldberg Copyright 2014
146 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

In this book, public health ethicist Daniel S. Goldberg sets out to characterize the subjective experience of pain and its undertreatment within the US medical establishment, and puts forward public policy recommendations for ameliorating the undertreatment of pain. The book begins from the position that the overwhelming focus on opioid analgesics as a means for improving the undertreatment of... Read more

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

Biography

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