If a pain is defined as ponos at the onset, it may be culturally inappropriate to offer pain relief for it... Where much pain was seen as normal part of human life, patients may have been reluctant to complain as healers were reluctant to administer painkilling treatments.
Good, B.J. (1994). Medicine, rationality, and experience: an anthropological perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. P. 276-277.
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