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KMID : 1025620170200020219
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Korean Journal of Medical Ethics
2017 Volume.20 No. 2 p.219 ~ p.233
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How Can Doctors Understand Patients` Pain?: A Study on Wittgenstein`s Concept of Pain Behavior
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Park Jeong-Sik
Jeong Chang-Rok
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Abstract
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Since pain is an internal or subjective experience, it is not possible for a doctor to experience a patient`s pain directly or to understand it fully. However, patients do describe or express their pain using language, which Wittgenstein considered to be a public phenomenon. It is primarily through language that a doctor understands a patent`s pain. This article examines the issue of pain within the context of medical care from the perspective of Wittgenstein`s philosophy of language. It is argued that Wittgenstein`s thinking illuminates what pain is and also how it should be understood by doctors.
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KEYWORD
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medical ethics, doctor-patient relationships, pain, understanding, Wittgenstein, pain behavior
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