Raison et sensibilité dans le traitement de la douleur

One of the reasons for the medicine is to relieve pain. Western medicine is built on the valorization of reason in many senses, implying to kind of a distance from the sensitivity (of the doctor to the patient) and a recovery diagnostic pain. The XX operates a revolution in practice (invention of the Algology and palliative care), which indicates a redistribution of the relations between reason and sensitivity at the heart of medical practice. The pain became a new medical concept that has a meaning and a new status on the physiological level, what has changed its diagnostic value by giving it a secondary value. The doctor can now take account of the sensitivity of his patient to try to eliminate effectively the pain. The solicitude replaces the ethical concept of sensitivity and shows attention to another, which is rational.