Rhetoric of the Opioid Epidemic

Deaths of Despair in America

AvTiara K. Good

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del i serien Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric

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Beskrivning

Rhetoric of the Opioid Epidemic demonstrates that framing the epidemic as a medical issue instead of an effect of moral failing holds more potential for solving the epidemic through medical treatment and reconnecting sufferers back to society. This rhetorical move separates the opioid epidemic from the criminal and immoral frames that were cast upon the crack epidemic and initial framing of the AIDS epidemic. Popular culture and governmental response case studies include: President Trump’s March 19, 2018 address to the nation, ODMAP produced by the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking in January 2017, news stories from national sources dating from 2015 to 2020 about the chronic pain management debate, two documentaries, Heroin(e) (2017) and One Nation Under Stress: Deaths of Despair in the United States (2019), and Ben is Back (2018).

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-11-05
Mått:161 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:467 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
Antal sidor:150
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793626196

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Tiara K. Good is faculty in the Communication Studies Department at Western Oregon University.

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The opioid epidemic is often framed as either a legal or public health problem. In this insightful work, Tiara Good approaches it as a rhetorical problem and examines the ways opioid addiction has become meaningful in American culture. Moving confidently across cinematic, political, governmental, and press accounts, Good explores the processes through which we have come to talk and feel about this public health crisis and the way these discourses have shaped our policies and practices.

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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Deaths of Despair and the Opioid Epidemic NowChapter 1 What is the Opioid Epidemic?: A Brief SummaryChapter 2 Tattered social fabric and dashed expectations: Documenting the Epidemic through Documentary FilmsChapter 3 “Ben is Back:” Rhetoric of Mothers in the Opioid EpidemicChapter 4 Defining Trump’s America through Crisis: Remarks on Combatting the Opioid CrisisChapter 5 Mapping the Epidemic: ODMAP and the boundaries of responseChapter 6 A Brief Analysis and Sample of the Chronic Pain Management Debate in the United StatesConclusion: A Very American Epidemic: Rhetoric of the Opioid Epidemic