Cover -- How We Hurt -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Opening -- 1. Tracing the Painkiller Revolution -- 2. Strategic Ignorance in Opioid Regulation -- 3. Branding Pain Relief -- 4. Self-Help and the Rise of the Pain Patient-Expert -- 5. Pain's New Faces -- Closing -- References -- Index
Summary
How We Hurt explores the origins and evolution of the ongoing opioid overdose epidemic in North America, focusing specifically on how a shifting politics of pain paved the way for the current crisis. Using archival and qualitative research, Melina Sherman traces the history of pain and reveals how the opioid crisis has evolved alongside new conceptions of addiction that condition whose pain is seen as legitimate and whose is not
