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The progression of suffering implies alleviated suffering
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2004There is a lack of research focusing directly on both patients’ suffering and alleviated suffering in relation to care. The aim of this paper was to investigate the progression of suffering in relation to the encounter between the suffering person and the caregiver from the perspective of an understanding of life.
Arne Rehnsfeldt, Katie Eriksson
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The Hastings Center Report, 1991 Medicine and ethics alike must learn properly to attend to suffering. We can never truly experience another's distress. We can, however, learn to recognize the particular purposes, values, and aesthetic responses that shape the sense of self whose ...
Cassell, Eric J.
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Nursing Science Quarterly, 2013
Human suffering is a significant yet elusive phenomenon that is frequently a topic of discussion in nursing and contemporary healthcare literature. Definitions and notions elaborating the potential meaning of human suffering are commonly linked with the concept of pain. The author here illuminates possible ethical meanings of human suffering.
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Human suffering is a significant yet elusive phenomenon that is frequently a topic of discussion in nursing and contemporary healthcare literature. Definitions and notions elaborating the potential meaning of human suffering are commonly linked with the concept of pain. The author here illuminates possible ethical meanings of human suffering.
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Suffering and the Cessation of Suffering
2020This chapter outlines traditional Buddhist views on suffering, craving, desire, aversion, and attachment as expressed in the classical formulation of the Four Noble Truths. The chapter examines the ways in which these views remain useful to modern Western practitioners, as well the ways they may require qualification in terms of the eudaimonic ...
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Journal of Religion & Health, 1976
More and more people today seem to be conditioned by our ever-advancing technology to anticipate instant gratification. We are an impatient people, annoyed if we have to wait in line, infuriated if we cannot see at least in our mind's eye the fruits of our labors, disenchanted if we experience a lag between our hope and its fulfillment. Our expectation
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More and more people today seem to be conditioned by our ever-advancing technology to anticipate instant gratification. We are an impatient people, annoyed if we have to wait in line, infuriated if we cannot see at least in our mind's eye the fruits of our labors, disenchanted if we experience a lag between our hope and its fulfillment. Our expectation
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The alienation of the sufferer
Advances in Nursing Science, 1995Suffering is a particularly human experience that often brings with it loneliness or alienation from others. The theory described in this article explains the mechanisms through which suffering affects an individual's sense of community and connectedness with others.
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The Hastings Center Report, 1998
Western thinkers have usually falsified our experience of suffering in trying to make sense of it. In a postmodern age, their accounts seem implausible. We need a way of making sense of suffering while admitting its horror.
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Western thinkers have usually falsified our experience of suffering in trying to make sense of it. In a postmodern age, their accounts seem implausible. We need a way of making sense of suffering while admitting its horror.
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Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1986
Medical practice is animated by the intention to cure; it aims to relieve the immense variety of sufferings to which human beings are subject in virtue of the conditions of their embodied existence. My purpose here is to demonstrate how a philosophical analysis of the formal structures and kinds of human suffering provides an essential foundation for ...
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Medical practice is animated by the intention to cure; it aims to relieve the immense variety of sufferings to which human beings are subject in virtue of the conditions of their embodied existence. My purpose here is to demonstrate how a philosophical analysis of the formal structures and kinds of human suffering provides an essential foundation for ...
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Archives of Internal Medicine, 1983
The relief of suffering is considered one of the primary aims of medicine. However, what suffering actually is and what physicians must do specifically to prevent or relieve it is poorly understood. Because of this, the most well-intentioned and best-trained physicians may cause suffering inadvertently in the course of treating disease and may fail to ...
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The relief of suffering is considered one of the primary aims of medicine. However, what suffering actually is and what physicians must do specifically to prevent or relieve it is poorly understood. Because of this, the most well-intentioned and best-trained physicians may cause suffering inadvertently in the course of treating disease and may fail to ...
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