Opiates for the masses: constructing a market for prescription (pain)killers
| Autor: | Melina Sherman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Materiality (auditing) Opioid epidemic 030505 public health Opioid use Popular culture Advertising Pain management 03 medical and health sciences Politics 0302 clinical medicine Political science Political economy 030212 general & internal medicine Pain killers Medical prescription 0305 other medical science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cultural Economy. 10:485-497 |
| ISSN: | 1753-0369 1753-0350 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17530350.2017.1352010 |
| Popis: | This paper examines the discursive and material construction of the ongoing US opioid epidemic. It argues that the epidemic cannot be understood apart from the reciprocal relation of cultural and economic processes that have made possible the formation of a market for prescription painkillers. Through an analysis of the articulation and interaction of medical, cultural, political, and market discourses, the author shows how these have been mobilized within a network of actors and institutions in ways that govern the economic life of opioid products. Dramatic transformations in the domain of pain management have coincided with shifting attitudes toward drug use in popular culture and transformations in health and regulatory policy to orchestrate the materiality of an enormous market for opioid products and make intelligible the problem of a nationwide ‘epidemic’ of opioid use and abuse. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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