Authors: Keith Wailoo
pharmacies: in nonwhite neighborhoods,
194
,
197
Walgreen's,
189
physician-assisted suicide (PAS): in California,
140
Congress and,
158
â59
debate over,
150
Glucksberg challenge to ban on,
152
,
154
â55,
156
â57
irony of,
153
Left and,
149
libertarian and states' rights claims for,
155
â56
pain care reform and,
140
â41
Supreme Court and,
156
â57.
See also
Kevorkian, Jack
physicians: acupuncture therapy and,
88
â89,
91
â92
conservative practice of,
138
,
142
education in pain care,
8
,
138
,
142
,
185
,
190
,
210
,
211
â13
frustrations of,
52
â53
legal oversight of,
95
,
135
,
139
,
141
â43,
160
liberal views and practice of,
60
,
66
,
80
,
87
,
89
,
135
,
136
â37
pain persona and,
46
,
49
â50,
53
â54
in politics,
136
â38,
151
,
153
â54
survey comments from,
40
â42,
43
â44.
See also
American Medical Association
Pius XII (pope),
134
placebos,
67
Polaski, Lorraine,
101
,
119
â20
Polaski v. Heckler
,
119
â20,
122
,
208
politics of pain: in China,
89
â91,
94
disability and,
53
â54
at end of life,
134
â35
government role and,
58
â59
in 1970s,
96
â97
overview of,
6
â12
OxyContin and,
199
â201
political parties and,
155
â56,
166
â67
theaters of compassion and,
202
â8
veterans and,
18
â19,
21
â22,
25
,
27
â28,
44
and worthiness for relief,
48
â49.
See also
conservatism; courts; liberalism
Portnoy, Russell,
200
Posner, Richard,
111
prescription drugs: adverse events from,
191
diversion of,
6
,
170
,
180
â81,
184
overmedication with,
194
â99.
See also
medication; regulation of drugs;
specific drugs
Public Citizen Health Research Group,
175
Public Law 748 (1948),
22
Purdue Pharma,
182
,
183
,
184
â85,
188
â90,
191
â92,
200
Purvis, Dara,
126
Quill, Timothy,
154
race.
See
ethnicity
radicalization of pain relief,
76
â87
Reagan, Nancy,
107
Reagan, Ronald,
107
administration of,
97
â102,
108
â15,
118
,
123
Carter and,
105
â6
election of,
106
; “fetal pain” and,
123
â25
HHS and,
98
â99
legacy of,
123
â28
“nonacquiescence” policy of,
102,
117
politics of pain and,
128
â30,
204
reelection of,
114
â15
SSDI and,
3
,
98
,
99
â100,
106
â8
and war against welfare,
98
,
101
,
102
,
104
,
108
â15
regulation of drugs: agencies responsible for,
135
Hurwitz and,
141
â43
opponents of,
75
OxyContin and,
186
â94
PAS and,
158
â59
trust and,
172
.
See also
Drug Enforcement Administration; Food and Drug Administration
Rehnquist, William,
154
â55,
156
Reich, Charles,
18
“Relieving Pain in America” (Institute of Medicine),
211
Religious Right: “fetal pain” and,
123
â25
influence of,
166
PAS and,
150
Schiavo and,
162
â63
Republican Party, Moral Majority wing of,
123
â25
Reston, James,
87
Rhinelander, Frederic,
55
Rich, Ben,
141
Richards, Wayne,
26
Rieff, Philip,
72
Roe v. Wade
,
150
Rosomoff, Hubert,
66
Russell, Harold,
24
Sammons, James,
138
Schiavo, Terri,
162
â63
Schlessinger, Laura,
1
Schweiker, Richard,
116
Sechzer, Philip,
95
Serlin, David,
37
Shaw, Robert,
79
â80
sickle cell disease,
8
,
49
,
68
â69,
194
,
197
Silent Scream, The
(film),
124
Smith, Chris,
206
Snyder, Howard,
32
social entitlements: compassion and,
63
critique of,
105
supplemental security income,
103
veterans' benefits,
18
.
See also
Social Security disability insurance
socialized medicine: Orr on,
47
postwar fears of,
4
,
13
,
20
,
21
â22,
25
â26
Social Security disability insurance (SSDI): adjudication of pain and,
45
â46
appeals of denial of benefits,
57
â58
funding for,
103
legitimacy of pain complaints,
60
â64
liberalism and,
59
Orr attack on,
46
â47
passage of legislation for,
45
purging of rolls of,
98
,
99
â100,
110
â12,
113
,
121
â22
Reagan and,
3
,
98
,
99
â100,
106
â8
Spock, Benjamin,
67
spoiled identity, management of,
46
â54
SSDI.
See
Social Security disability insurance
SSI (supplemental security income),
103
states' rights: conservatism, PAS, and,
159
â64
politics of pain and,
206
Supreme Court and,
166
.
See also specific states
Steiner, Peter, cartoon of,
8
Stevenson, Ian,
39
Strauss, Anselm,
10
Sudafed,
180
Sullivan, Albert,
21
supplemental security income (SSI),
103
Supreme Court: compassion and,
164
â67
Glucksberg
case,
154
â55,
156
â57
Gonzales v. Oregon
,
163
â64
Polaski v. Heckler
,
119
â20,
122
,
208
protesters outside,
164
surveillance approach,
198
â99.
See also
regulation of drugs
Svahn, John,
99
Sweeney, Eileen,
120
Syntex Corporation,
177
â78
Szasz, Thomas,
81
Taylor, Linda,
98
Taylor, Paul,
2
tenBroek, Jacobus,
71
terminal illness: lobotomy and,
36
â37
pain relief and,
134
â35,
156
â57.
See also
end-of-life care
Texas Intractable Pain Treatment Act,
136
â38
Texas Medical Association,
161
Theberge v. United States
,
62
â63
theories of pain: of Bonica,
33
â35
complainants as pathological,
50
cultural relativism,
81
â84
felt pain as true pain,
63
gate control,
77
â79,
80
,
85
â86,
87
,
91
,
95
,
207
learned helplessness,
96
,
109
â10,
207
learned pain syndrome,
96
pattern theory,
78
psychological,
54
â56
as psychologically illegitimate,
109
specificity theory,
78
as weapons,
4
.
See also
double effect, principle of; personality
Tibbits, Clark,
17
Todd, Knox,
194
Toradol,
177
â78
tort law,
76
tort reform,
179
torture, as public policy,
193
tranquilizers,
31
â32,
39
,
51
,
72
,
172
Trojan horse: Orr on,
46
â47
pain complainant as,
28
soldiers' pain as,
42
Truman, Harry: national health insurance and,
13
veterans' benefits and,
16
,
20
,
21
â22
tuberculosis,
44
Tylenol,
178
University of Wisconsin Pain and Policy Study Group,
201
Upjohn and Motrin,
174
VA.
See
Veterans Administration
Vacco v. Quill
,
154
veterans: benefits for,
4
,
23
,
25
â27
demographic pressures and,
19
â20
Eisenhower and,
23
â25,
44
â45
of Iraq war,
193
pain complaints of,
13
â14,
15
â18,
46
rating pain of,
39
â46
service-related disabilities of,
22
â23,
44
.
See also
Bradley Commission on Veterans' Compensation
Veterans Administration (VA): disability categorization of,
40
strains on,
26
veterans'
groups and,
47