| Summary: | The concept of pain associated to illness has changed completely. It is no longer a metaphysical or religious concern but susceptible of being treated by medical support. There is no way of accepting ‘inevitable’ pain when nearly everything in the market has its cure or remedy. Modern myth that science will cure all sorts of illnesses and turn man immortal has contributed to such an idea. The concept of a double human being - body psyche – is responsible for treating both as separate entities. Granting sense to pain and suffering, means a powerful weapon which gives individuals the capacity to understand what happens to them. To recover vital attitudes as assuming the inevitable, accepting the coming events, coolness and mood are coherent proposals. The main objective of this essay is to draw some light about human pain, human suffering and give modern ways to achieve it since the holistic point of view Anthropology offers as a hermeneutical discipline. The starting point tries to justify that “although there have been medical advances in illness treatment, the healing of suffering, the curing pain is not yet a paramount concern its cultural connotations have been underestimated”.
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