S. Scott Graham is the director of the Scientific and Medical Communications Laboratory and assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
"The Politics of Pain Medicine, as a title, understates the
comprehensive coverage of the complex topic of pain that can be
found in this book's pages. Especially striking is Graham's
deconstruction of the history of pain research into a variety of
strands, each of which corresponds to a distinct mode of relating
to the phenomena of pain. Even scholars who do not share Graham's
preoccupation with the role of rhetoric in the study of science and
technology will come away with a more sophisticated understanding
of why pain has been such a controversial and revealing site in the
politics of medical practice. Moreover, fully aware of the
closeness of pain to our sense of human dignity, Graham concludes
the book with a sober reflection on what difference he thinks his
inquiry can make to the future of pain as both an object of
research and a personal experience."--Steve Fuller, University of
Warwick
"Graham's The Politics of Pain Medicine is an exemplary integration
of rhetorical studies, science and technology studies, and material
ontologies of human being. With careful and textured analyses of
research and medical efforts aimed at remediating the ineluctably
interconnected biological, psychological, and social dimensions of
pain, Graham both articulates and effects an ontological
reorientation that has the potential to transform how theorists and
practitioners think about pain, talk about pain, and respond to
pain in others."--Samantha Frost, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
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