Abstract

CERDIO DOMINGUEZ, David. The management of chronic pain -not oncological-: an emerging bioethical challenge. Med. ética [online]. 2022, vol.33, n.2, pp.505-546.  Epub July 31, 2023. ISSN 2594-2166.  https://doi.org/10.36105/mye.2022v33n2.06.

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.

Keywords : Opioids; interdisciplinary; human dignity; suffering.