Abstract

GUEVARA, JAIRO CAMILO; BOTERO, NATALIA; OSPINA, JUAN MANUEL  and  YEPES, CARLOS ENRIQUE. FROM THE MACHINE THAT REPAIRS ITSELF TO THE PAIN THAT INHABITS THE BODY. EXPERIENCES AND MEANINGS OF PAIN IN PATIENTS AT A HIGH COMPLEXITY HOSPITAL IN MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA. Maguare [online]. 2022, vol.36, n.1, pp.71-100.  Epub Jan 12, 2023. ISSN 0120-3045.  https://doi.org/10.15446/mag.v36n1.100870.

This article examines the meanings of pain produced by patients undergoing surgery, anesthesia, and analgesia in a hospital in Medellín. From a grounded-theory perspective, we analyzed 24 semi-structured interviews and identified the body and mechanistic dualism as a central problem and explored how dualism is incarnated in biomedical knowledge's body techniques for pain management. Drawing from these knowledge and techniques, patients elaborate metaphors about suffering and pain, the course of pain and its meaning. We conclude that both for biomedical knowledge and for the patients the body is divided. The experience of pain is total, however, it is integral and immeasurable. Therefore, patients, as suffering subjects, live pain distinctly and in their own language, different from medical knowledge.

Keywords : biomedical knowledge; experience and treatment of pain; human body; mechanistic dualism; metaphors; mind-body relationships; pain.

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