The management of chronic pain –not oncological–: an emerging bioethical challenge
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Pain and suffering are substantial realities of human experience. Today we are beginning to become aware of the contextual reality of the health problem generated as a consequence of the liquid society and the discarding that has been inherited. Bioethics, as an interdisciplinary field, has a fundamental and crucial role in the orientation and guidance of health sciences. Analyzing and understanding these concepts (pain and suffering) is essential in order to be able to propose –proactively–specific strategies that favor and promote adequate multidimensional treatment. The purpose of this systematic review is to present a global and current vision of the perception that both chronic pain and suffering represent for modern society. Epidemiologically, there is a silent epidemic in this sense, which, if not comprehensively addressed, represents a risk factor for the development of social problems, in combination with the anthropological reductionisms that prevail at present.
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