title: [Historical pain concepts : Cultural influences on pain perception and interpretation].
abstract: In the age of globalization and cultural diversification differing concepts of pain in patient care are of increasing importance. Historical models of the origin and interpretation of pain, which in this article are presented in a cursory and exemplary way, help to understand the panoply of modern concepts outside of medicine. Basically, pain was viewed not only in religion and philosophy but also by premodern physicians as a psychophysical phenomenon crucially depending on the determination by a "soul" therefore creating therapeutic options even before the discovery of an effective analgesia. Furthermore, the historical interpretations of pain in and outside of medicine can still be of profound importance to patients even today.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 20, Geb. 42, 50931, Köln, Deutschland. daniel.schaefer@uni-koeln.de.
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authors.lastname: Schäfer
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural / Q000266:history*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000266:history*; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality / Q000266:history*; D010146:Pain / Q000266:history*; D059408:Pain Management / Q000266:history*; D012068:Religion and Medicine
keywords: Anthropology; Cultural diversity; Ethics of pain; History of medicine; Religion and medicine