Regimes of pain: The geopolitics of cancer palliation in Pakistan.

This article examines how militarized regimes of narcotics and price control sustain unpalliated cancer pain in Pakistan. It shows how these regimes of control—reimagined as "regimes of pain"—render morphine, a cheap, effective opiate analgesic, scarce in hospitals. Meanwhile, heroin, morphine's ill...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 271 - 285
Autor principal: Hayat, Zahra
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2024
Materias:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost