Between Pain and Relief: Morphine's Ambiguities in India

17/08/2023 12 min

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Episode Synopsis


This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Nick Surawy Stepney and Nishanth Kunnukattil Shaji can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/08/between-pain-and-relief-morphines-ambiguities-in-india/. About the post: Morphine, the gold standard of medically prescribed painkillers, offers a troubling medical story, evoking in equal measure the contingent histories of pleasure and war, relief and addiction, commerce, and regulation.

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