Reclaiming Broken Bodies (or, This Is Gonna Hurt Some): Pain, Healing, and the Opioid Crisis
I argue here that the ways we experience, think about, and treat pain are bound up with sociocultural and technological phenomena that shape our desires and expectations. I propose a way of imagining caring for and offering healing to those who suffer pain informed by the Christian theological tradi...
Subtitles: | "Attending to Persons in Pain and Modern Health Care" |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2023, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 235-243 |
IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society NBE Anthropology NCH Medical ethics |
Further subjects: | B
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B Pain B Communion B Medicalization B Opioids B Loneliness B Healing B Lament B Body B Remembering |
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Summary: | I argue here that the ways we experience, think about, and treat pain are bound up with sociocultural and technological phenomena that shape our desires and expectations. I propose a way of imagining caring for and offering healing to those who suffer pain informed by the Christian theological tradition. This way does not aspire to replace the care and healing made possible by modern medicine, but rather to place it within the common life of a community of mutual love, hospitality, and reciprocal care. |
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ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbad017 |