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...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 271 - 285 |
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Sep2024
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