Published Online: Mar 30, 2018
Page range: 123 - 139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2018-0006
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© 2018 Ravinder Singh, published by De Gruyter Open
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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 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.