Responding Wisely to Persistent Pain: Insights from Patristic Theology and Clinical Experience
For most of the past generation, clinicians have been taught to treat patients' pain until the patient says it is relieved. The opioid crisis has forced both clinicians and patients to reconsider that approach. This essay considers how Christians in particular might assume and seek to overcome...
Другие заглавия: | "Attending to Persons in Pain and Modern Health Care" |
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Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
Язык: | Английский |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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Christian bioethics
Год: 2023, Том: 29, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 196-206 |
Индексация IxTheo: | CB Христианская жизнь KAB Раннее христианство NBE Антропология NCH Медицинская этика |
Другие ключевые слова: | B
Pain
B Medicalization B Church Fathers B Suffering B Chronic Pain |
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Итог: | For most of the past generation, clinicians have been taught to treat patients' pain until the patient says it is relieved. The opioid crisis has forced both clinicians and patients to reconsider that approach. This essay considers how Christians in particular might assume and seek to overcome their experiences of persistent pain. Wise and faithful responses to pain, especially chronic pain, can take their bearings from how early Christians made sense of the place of both medicine and suffering in a faithful life. This results in not asking medicine to resolve persistent pain, especially not through the use of opioids. Resisting the impulse to medicalize chronic pain will require patience on the part of those who suffer, and both patience and fortitude on the part of the clinicians to whom they present. |
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ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbad020 |