(in)communicability of pain
... illnesses after having gone through a violent experience. Illnesses become useful tools with which victims of violence apprehend and express their own trauma and pain. Following Das’s argument regarding the existence of alternative forms of mediation through which pain can be expressed, we can regar ...
... illnesses after having gone through a violent experience. Illnesses become useful tools with which victims of violence apprehend and express their own trauma and pain. Following Das’s argument regarding the existence of alternative forms of mediation through which pain can be expressed, we can regar ...
Utilitarianism-R-Warren-041014
... form of consequentialism. To examine the application of utilitarian thinking to some ethical problems in health care. To identify some key strengths and weaknesses of utilitarianism in this context. ...
... form of consequentialism. To examine the application of utilitarian thinking to some ethical problems in health care. To identify some key strengths and weaknesses of utilitarianism in this context. ...
Bring in the Audience! - Networking Knowledge: Journal of the
... audience. One of the few empirical articles acknowledging such differences is the one by Höijer (2004) who describes gender-related differences in audience reactions to distant suffering. Yet, gender is only one of many factors that can be taken into account. Ethnicity, age, political preferences, s ...
... audience. One of the few empirical articles acknowledging such differences is the one by Höijer (2004) who describes gender-related differences in audience reactions to distant suffering. Yet, gender is only one of many factors that can be taken into account. Ethnicity, age, political preferences, s ...
Suffering
Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, may be an experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual. Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of affective phenomena. The opposite of suffering is pleasure, or happiness.Suffering is often categorized as physical or mental. It may come in all degrees of intensity, from mild to intolerable. Factors of duration and frequency of occurrence usually compound that of intensity. Attitudes toward suffering may vary widely, in the sufferer or other people, according to how much it is regarded as avoidable or unavoidable, useful or useless, deserved or undeserved.Suffering occurs in the lives of sentient beings in numerous manners, and often dramatically. As a result, many fields of human activity are concerned with some aspects of suffering. These aspects may include the nature of suffering, its processes, its origin and causes, its meaning and significance, its related personal, social, and cultural behaviors, its remedies, management, and uses.