HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Betty Friedan, Pain Management, Diazepam
20 Nov 2018
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Benzodiazepines: use dipped, but benzos remain significant with 2nd generation introduced as. Fibromyalgia, etc: assumption that we should be free of discomfort. Freedom from pain as a purchasable good: holloway and haw: we see pain as an individual responsibility, rather than a public health problem. Decontextualized and depoliticized: more than 6 million canadians report chronic pain. Higher among people with low income, low education, and indigenous populations: groups like canadian pain coalition frame pain as an individual problem to be solved via pills or individual activity (yoga) Psychopharmacological societies: rose: cultures of managing daily life via medication, construction identities via drug use, has reconceptualized ideas about pathology and potential of human beings. Rx drugs as forms of self-discipline and management: lifestyle drugs: curate what we want our lives to be, stimulants as cognitive enhancers, forms of treatment, recreation, e. g. students using stimulants on campus, e. g. the movie limitless.
