The Politics of Pain Medicine: A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry
S. Scott Graham
Abstract
The Politics of Pain documents the author’s exploration of simultaneous efforts by interdisciplinary pain specialists and scholars of science and technology studies to transcend the limits of modernist and postmodernist dualisms. The book offers a hybrid rhetorical-ontological analysis of interdisciplinary debates in pain medicine and pain-related American pharmaceuticals policy. In so doing, the book reflects on the synergies between pain specialists’ attempts to found a new hybrid body-mind unified approach to pain science and practice and science and technology studies’ efforts to develop a ... More
The Politics of Pain documents the author’s exploration of simultaneous efforts by interdisciplinary pain specialists and scholars of science and technology studies to transcend the limits of modernist and postmodernist dualisms. The book offers a hybrid rhetorical-ontological analysis of interdisciplinary debates in pain medicine and pain-related American pharmaceuticals policy. In so doing, the book reflects on the synergies between pain specialists’ attempts to found a new hybrid body-mind unified approach to pain science and practice and science and technology studies’ efforts to develop a nonmondern/ new materialist foundations for inquiry. Integrating insights from ontologically-oriented rhetorical studies and new materialist science and technology studies, The Politics of Pain provides a detailed analysis of the material and discursive instantiations and effects of cross-ontological calibration in pain science and medicine. This analysis traces the calibrating activates of a local interdisciplinary pain management organization, the history of neuroimaging technologies and their role in legitimizing marginalized pain disorders, as well as deliberations over cross-ontological conflicts at the Food and Drug Administration.
Keywords:
interdisciplinary communication,
multiple ontologies,
new materialisms,
object-oriented ontologies,
pain medicine,
pharmaceuticals policy,
rhetorical methodologies,
rhetoric of science,
rhetoric of medicine
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780226264059 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: May 2016 |
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226264196.001.0001 |
