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GALVEZ-LOPERA, Camilo Andrés and NARANJO-QUINTERO, Verónica. Human Pain: A Response of Medical Sciences and some Considerations concerning Spiritual Pain for the Training of Palliative Care Professionals. Escritos - Fac. Filos. Let. Univ. Pontif. Bolivar. [online]. 2017, vol.25, n.55, pp.419-436. ISSN 0120-1263. https://doi.org/10.18566/escr.v25n55a04.
The article takes into consideration human pain from a threefold approach. First, it considers pain as an anthropological reality; second, it shows how medical sciences have contributed to such a reality; and finally, it addresses spiritual pain, recognizing how relevant the latter is for the care of patients, mainly for palliative care. Thus, the aim of the article is to motivate a reflection on how to treat human pain in a comprehensive way.
Keywords : Medical Treatment; Palliative Care; Anthropology; Pain; Spiritual Pain.