SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE OF 'PAIN: A POLITICAL HISTORY'
MAJORITY REPORT WITH SAM SEDER, APRIL 2015.
Author discusses pain theory in politics and how it plays out in criminal justice and policy. Also how pain can explain the liberal and conservative divide.
KCUR KANSAS CITY, RADIO, APRIL 2015
EXPLORING THE POLITICS OF PAIN, WAILOO INTERVIEW WITH STEVE KRASKE
C-SPAN BOOK TV, MARCH 2015
Professor Keith Wailoo talks about the politicization of treating pain in the U.S. since the 1950s.
Negotiating a World of Hurt
- Troy Duster, Chronicle of Higher Education Review, October 2014
Feeling Your Pain
- Warwick Anderson, Science, September 2014
Who Has a Right to Pain Relief?
- Rebecca O'Brien, The Atlantic, August 2014
Pain Touches Sensitive Political Nerve among Americans
(audio podcast interview with Rose Huber) - April 2014
"The debates that we have today about Obamacare, the role of government in relieving people's distress or the role of government in creating dependency—these debates go far back to the origins of American society."
How Suffering Drives Politics
- Sam Baker, The National Journal, July 2014
The Politics of Pain
How do liberals and conservatives view suffering?
Two leading experts discuss
(interview with Melanie Thernstrom), by Amelia Thomson-Deveaux - American Prospect, April 2014
"It would be valuable for politicians, policy-makers, and people living in pain to understand the political battles that often make relief so hard to find."
