<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper reviews pain, social and physical, and its suffering in and beyond the body. It has reviewed evidences for neuro-chemical and neural overlap between social and physical pain. It also explores the consequences of this overlap followed by the sociocultural aspects of pain through an anthropological lens. This is an anthropological exploration of pain for the benefit of the understanding of our clinicians about human pain and suffering beyond the body in their local world.</p></abstract>

This paper reviews pain, social and physical, and its suffering in and beyond the body. It has reviewed evidences for neuro-chemical and neural overlap between social and physical pain. It also explores the consequences of this overlap followed by the sociocultural aspects of pain through an anthropological lens. This is an anthropological exploration of pain for the benefit of the understanding of our clinicians about human pain and suffering beyond the body in their local world.

The Pain: How Does Anthropology Look at it? Suffering of Body and Mind

Ethnologia Actualis

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This paper reviews pain, social and physical, and its suffering in and beyond the body. It has reviewed evidences for neuro-chemical and neural overlap between...

The Pain: How Does Anthropology Look at it? Suffering of Body and Mind

Publié en ligne: 30 mars 2018

Pages: 123 - 139

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2018-0006

Mots clés
Pain, Body and Mind, Culture

© 2018 Ravinder Singh, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Pain: How Does Anthropology Look at it? Suffering of Body and Mind

Publié en ligne: 30 mars 2018

Pages: 123 - 139

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2018-0006

Mots clésPain, Body and Mind, Culture

© 2018 Ravinder Singh, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
Pain, Body and Mind, Culture