Books: 'Physical suffering'

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Bass, Clarence. Great expectations: Health fitness leanness without suffering. Albuquerque, N.M: Clarence Bass' Ripped Enterprises, 2007.

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Cohen, Darlene. Turning suffering inside out: A Zen approach to living with physical and emotional pain. Boston, Mass: Shambhala, 2002.

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Constance, DeSwaan, ed. Healing pain: The innovative, breakthrough plan to overcome your physical pain and emotional suffering. Emmaus, Pa: Rodale, 2006.

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End back pain forever: A radically new approach that can relieve your suffering. New York: Atria Books, 2012.

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Baker, Don. LORD, I've Got a Problem. Eugene, USA: Harvest House Publishers, 1988.

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Cassell, Eric J. The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Jones, Maureen. Wisdom to wellness: Healing your emotional sufferings so the physical healing can follow. Hants, UK: O-Books, 2011.

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Curtis, Heather D. Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and divine healing in American culture, 1860-1900. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

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The nature of suffering: And the goals of medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Finkelstein, Adi. Le-khasot be-shaḳuf: ʻal sevel gufani, ʻamimut refuʼit ṿe-hakhḥashah ḥevratit = Invisible veil : on bodily suffering, medical ambiguity, and social denial. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2013.

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La sofferenza del corpo: Interpretazioni del vissuto di malattia nei diversi modelli della relazione terapeutica. Milano: Guerini studio, 2006.

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Diner, Jeff. Physical and Mental Suffering of Experimental Animals. Animal Welfare Inst, 1988.

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Great Expectations: Health Fitness Leanness Without Suffering. Clarence Bass's Ripped, 2007.

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Touching the Hem: A biblical response to physical suffering. Greenville, SC: Ambassador International, 2013.

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Brady, Michael S. What Suffering Is. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812807.003.0002.

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This chapter examines and explains the nature of suffering. Brady surveys the different kinds of physical and mental suffering, and then introduces a ‘componential’ account of suffering, in line with traditional ways of thinking about emotions. He then proposes that suffering involves two core elements. The first is an experience of negative affect or unpleasantness, which is common to all forms of suffering, whether physical or emotional. The second is an occurrent desire that this unpleasantness cease. Suffering is, in a slogan, unpleasantness that we mind. He shows how this account has a suitable scope. Appealing to occurrent desires allows for animals and young children to suffer, and allows us to accommodate the fact that cognition often plays an important role in determining how much we suffer.

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Black, Helen K., John T. Groce, and Charles E. Harmon. Experiences of Suffering. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190602321.003.0004.

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In prior research, elders recounted experiences of suffering as a rupture of the integrity of the person, thus a brokenness in body, mind, and spirit. Persons interviewed stated that their ethnicity, biography, history, and mental and physical health were integral to an experience of suffering. Likewise, the context of suffering—when in life it occurred, its cause, and its resolution—also was included in descriptions of suffering. Did male caregivers agree with this assessment? We welcomed caregiving respondents’ definitions of suffering and asked them to give examples in their own lives. This chapter also explores the experience of mourning the loved one who is still alive but lost within dementia or is enduring other illnesses.

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Cassell, Eric J. The Nature of Suffering. Edited by Stuart J. Youngner and Robert M. Arnold. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199974412.013.17.

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This chapter examines the problem of suffering and assesses therapeutic interventions for sick or dying patients. It considers what makes suffering a unique form of distress before discussing the difficulty faced by clinicians, especially Western clinicians, when dealing with suffering due to their tendency to focus primarily on the physical problems of very sick patients while ignoring the person of the patient. It also looks at different kinds of suffering, such as existential suffering (which includes psychological and physical suffering) and argues that there are no different kinds of suffering—only suffering. The chapter claims that suffering is something that happens to persons rather than to bodies, that the integrity or intactness of the person is threatened by the stimulus to suffering, and that suffering always involves self-conflict, which is present in the dying and in those with acute illness. Finally, it presents examples to illustrate that suffering is personal.

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Enenkel, K. A. E., and J. F. van Dijkhuizen. Sense of Suffering: Constructions of Physical Pain in Early Modern Culture. BRILL, 2009.

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Brady, Michael S. Suffering and Virtue. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812807.001.0001.

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Suffering, in one form or another, is present in all of our lives. But why do we suffer? On one reading, this is a question about the causes of physical and emotional suffering. But on another, it is a question about whether suffering has a point or purpose or value. In this book, Michael Brady argues that suffering is vital for the development of virtue, and hence for us to live happy or flourishing lives. After presenting a distinctive and original account of suffering, and a novel account of its core element, unpleasantness, Brady proceeds to focus on three claims that are central to his picture. The first is that forms of suffering, like pain and remorse, can themselves constitute virtuous responses. The second is that suffering is essential for four important classes of virtue—virtues of strength, such as fortitude and courage; virtues of vulnerability, such as adaptability and humility; moral virtues, such as compassion; and the practical and epistemic excellences that make up wisdom. His final claim is that suffering is vital for the social virtues of justice, love, and trust, and hence for the flourishing of social groups.

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Wasserman, David. Physical Disability, Dignity, and Physician-Assisted Death. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190675967.003.0006.

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This chapter focuses on the relevance of physical disability for justifying extensions of physician assistance in dying to individuals who are not terminally ill. It is concluded that such disability, however severe, provides no stronger dignity-based reason than other kinds of loss or misfortune for permitting physician assistance, either as a condition for finding or presuming unbearable suffering or as an independent ground for physician assistance. A law or policy that singled out physical disability, however severe, as supporting a dignity-based claim for physician assistance would be misguided. The state should not explicitly or implicitly treat any physical condition, or any degree of physical dependence, as undignified.

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Dijkhuizen, Jan Frans van, 1970- and Enenkel K. A. E, eds. The sense of suffering: Constructions of physical pain in early modern culture. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

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Brady, Michael S. Suffering as a Virtuous Motive. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812807.003.0004.

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This chapter proposes that dispositions to suffer can constitute virtues, and that when they do, experiences of suffering are virtuous motives. Brady illustrates this idea by showing that feelings of physical pain and emotional remorse can constitute ‘faculty virtues’, since they outperform feasible competitors in bringing about valuable goods, such as the avoidance of damage, and the provision of apologies and reparations. He then considers a range of objections to this virtue-theoretical approach to suffering—in particular, that dispositions to feel pain are not aspects of character, and thus not virtues as traditionally conceived; and that virtuous motives are intrinsically good, whilst suffering is intrinsically bad—and argues that none of them are convincing.

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Lalkhen, Abdul Ghaaliq. Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering. Scribner, 2021.

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Schleese, Jochen. Suffering in Silence: The Saddle-Fit Link to Physical and Psychological Trauma in Horses. Trafalgar Square Books, 2014.

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Lalkhen, Abdul Ghaaliq. Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering. Scribner, 2021.

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Heal, Bridget. Lutherans and the Suffering of Christ. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198737575.003.0006.

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Chapter 5 focuses on one particular type of Lutheran devotional image: the crucifix. It examines transformations in Lutheran Passion piety from the early Reformation to the era of Paul Gerhardt (1607–76), using this to illustrate the increasing significance accorded to images. Luther himself had condemned the excesses of late-medieval Passion piety, with its emphasis on compassion for Christ and the Virgin Mary, on physical pain and on tears. From the later sixteenth century onwards, however, Lutheran sermons, devotional literature, prayers and poetry described Christ’s suffering in increasingly graphic terms. Alongside this, late-medieval images of the Passion were restored and new images were produced. Drawing on case studies from the Erzgebirge, a prosperous mining region in southern Saxony, and Upper Lusatia, the chapter investigates the ways in which images of the Passion were used in Lutheran communities during the seventeenth century.

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Lalkhen, Abdul-Ghaaliq. An Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2021.

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The Effect of Mandibular Repositioning On Quadricep Extension Strength In Patients Suffering from TMJ. SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE, 1993.

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Baker, Courtney R., ed. Slavery’s Suffering Brought to Light—New Orleans, 1834. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039485.003.0002.

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This chapter focuses on the abolitionist movement and the rise of physical sensation as a rhetorical theme. It interprets the term “image” in its post-nineteenth-century sense as identifying both the actual (“this really happened”) and the conventional (“this is what it looked like”). Although photography was not in place during all of the moments under investigation in this chapter, the clamor for visual proof is consistently evident. The chapter analyzes the Lalaurie affair of 1834—a scandal in which a white Creole woman named Delphine Lalaurie was found to have experimented on her slaves for her own wanton pleasure—to highlight a view of black humanity, as well as the power accorded to sight at this historical moment as a means to acquire knowledge. The encounters with the suffering bodies of enslaved blacks and the humane insight of these confrontations challenged core principles of slavery and, at moments, exposed the cracks in slavery's logic that would eventually lead to its abolition.

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Schleese, Jochen. Suffering in Silence : Exploring the Painful Truth: The Saddle-Fit Link to Physical and Psychological Trauma in Horses. Trafalgar Square Books, 2017.

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Arathuzik, Mary Diane. THE COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE APPRAISAL OF SUFFERING DUE TO PHYSICAL PAIN AND THE COPING STRATEGIES AND BEHAVIORS OF METASTATIC BREAST CANCER PATIENTS. 1986.

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Leeb, Claudia. What Makes Us Rebel. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190639891.003.0005.

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“What Makes Us Rebel: Suffering Reconsidered” draws on Marx to expose the suffering capitalism causes—alienation, exploitation, and isolation—and explains how such suffering is connected to discourse. It also explains Marx’s notion of the commodity fetish that exposes that people are not completely subjected or subordinated by capitalist power structures, which allows them to envision agency. It introduces a new concept of suffering to further theorize such agency and to establish a mediated relation between mind and body. To do so it returns to Adorno and Lacan to explain the ways in which the moment of the limit (non-identity and the real) is connected to the unbearable physical moment of suffering in capitalism that spurs people on social change.

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Krakauer, Eric L. Sedation at the end of life. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199656097.003.0182.

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Palliative sedation is a well-accepted therapy that should be considered in the rare situations when a terminally ill patient whose overriding goal is comfort experiences severe suffering that is refractory to all available standard palliative interventions. Typically, such suffering is caused by physical or neuropsychiatric symptoms such as pain, dyspnoea, vomiting, seizures, agitated delirium, anxiety, or depression. The level of sedation should be proportional to an individual patient’s suffering and should be just deep enough to provide the desired relief. In some cases, sedation to unconsciousness is necessary. The intention of palliative sedation should be only to relieve suffering, never to hasten death. Informed consent must be obtained, and clinicians should demonstrate their intentions by documenting the regimen used and the patient’s response. Ideal medications have a rapid onset of action and a short duration of action that facilitate titration to the desired effect. The best agents are barbiturates such as pentobarbital and anaesthetic induction agents such as propofol.

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Newton, Hannah. ‘O, How Sweet is Ease!’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779025.003.0004.

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This is the first of four chapters devoted to the personal experience of recovery. It explores patients’ responses to the abatement of bodily suffering, investigating the transition from ‘feeling ill’ to ‘feeling better’. Focusing on the decline of pain, nausea, and sleeplessness—three of the most ubiquitous forms of suffering in accounts of illness—it is shown that feeling better was a double joy for patients, of their bodies and souls: they found that physical suffering produced distressing emotions, and the eventual ease brought rejoicing. The second half of the chapter turns to the reactions of relatives and friends, proposing that they shared the experience of the patient, a phenomenon known as ‘fellow-feeling’. Taking a new, sensory approach, it was chiefly through the ears and eyes that loved ones came to share patients’ suffering and eventual relief. The patient’s ‘doleful Groans’ and ‘sad Looks’ were replaced by joyful laughter and singing.

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Montreal Homeopathic Hospital: McGill College Avenue (corner of Burnside Street) devoted to the scientific amelioration of physical suffering, a complete establishment comprising public medical and surgical wards, handsomely fitted private wards .. [S.l: s.n., 1987.

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Montreal Homœpathic Hospital: McGill College Avenue (corner of Burnside Street) devoted to the scientific amelioration of physical suffering, a complete establishment comprising public medical and surgical wards, handsomely fitted private wards ... [S.l: s.n., 1987.

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King, Daniel. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810513.003.0001.

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This chapter puts forward a new view of pain in the Imperial world. Hitherto, critics have focused on pain perception or a broad (and inherently vague) category of ‘suffering’. This chapter argues for ‘pain experience’, which combines anatomical and physiological explanations of pain perception with its broader social and emotional impact. This focus on pain experience will contribute to contemporary debates about pain in philosophy and cultural anthropology. It will also reveal the complexity of the Imperial world’s engagement with the physical body and its perceptions, its articulation in language and representation, and its place in this society. Finally, it will facilitate a recalibration of the scholarly focus on the Christian interest in ‘suffering’ in the ancient world.

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Davis, Cynthia J. Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858737.001.0001.

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This book examines the cultural pursuit of a painless ideal as a neglected context for US literary realism. Advances in anesthesia in the final decades of the nineteenth century together with influential religious ideologies helped strengthen the equation of a comfortable existence insulated from physical suffering with the height of civilization. Theories of the civilizing process as intensifying sensitivity to suffering were often adduced to justify a revulsion from physical pain among the postbellum elite. Yet a sizeable portion of this elite rejected this comfort-seeking, pain-avoiding aesthetic as a regrettable consequence of over-civilization. Proponents of the strenuous cult instead identified pain and strife as essential ingredients of an invigorated life. The Ache of the Actual examines variants on a lesser known counter-sensibility integral to the writings of a number of influential literary realists. William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Charles Chesnutt each delineated alternative definitions of a superior sensibility indebted to suffering rather than to either revulsion from or immersion in it. They resolved the binary contrast between pain-aversion on one side and pain-immersion on the other by endorsing an uncommon responsiveness to pain whose precise form depended on the ethical and aesthetic priorities of the writer in question. Focusing on these variations elucidates the similarities and differences within US literary realism while revealing areas of convergence and divergence between realism and other long-nineteenth-century literary modes, chief among them both sentimentalism and naturalism, that were similarly preoccupied with pain.

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Strada, E. Alessandra. The Second Domain of Palliative Care. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199798551.003.0003.

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This chapter proposes palliative psychology competencies in the second domain of palliative care: physical aspects of care. It discusses the importance of interdisciplinary work in assessment and management of pain and other physical symptoms. Palliative psychologists with the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes can contribute greatly to team work by identifying and managing psychological factors that can contribute to the patient’s physical suffering. This chapter also briefly describes relevant approaches to dyspnea and constipation. Clinical examples of pain assessment and intervention are provided based on real case scenarios. The basics of pharmacological approaches to pain management in advanced illness are discussed, in order to facilitate the role of palliative psychologists in promoting communication and treatment adherence. The use of integrative medicine modalities to improve physical symptoms is highlighted.

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Lee, Sherry D. Modernist Opera’s Stigmatized Subjects. Edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph Straus. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199331444.013.12.

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While nineteenth-century opera saw its share of damaged and acutely afflicted bodies, and its music more frequently aestheticized suffering than it either objectified or sympathized with it, the early twentieth century saw a shift in emphasis with regard to the staged and musical representation of subjects stigmatized by congenital or permanent physical disabilities. This essay considers the ways in which the musicodramatic framework for interpretation, spectatorship, and identification in modernist opera (including depictions by Strauss, Schreker, and Zemlinsky of dwarves and hunchbacks) is subtly reconfigured according to shifting modernist aesthetic and sociocultural contexts, such that the visual and sonic signification of physical disability is conceptualized as a kind of metaphor for damaged subjectivity or personhood—a status not infrequently understood as encapsulating the broader fate of the modern self.

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Wilson, Catherine. 8. Epicurean ethics. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199688326.003.0008.

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The Epicurean moral tenets concern living, loving, and dying. Their recommendations reflect the conviction that although pain and pleasure can be felt as either ‘psychological’ or ‘physical’, the mind is inseparable from the body, and ‘all good and bad consists in sense-experience’. The material nature of the body and mind makes suffering and death inevitable and the latter final and incontrovertible. Self-denial has no ethical importance for the Epicurean except as a means of preventing pain. ‘Epicurean ethics’ assesses Epicurean moral philosophy by considering desire and disappointment, the finality of death (mortalism), and the ethics associated with human welfare.

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Jeffrey, Andrew. Psychology in respiratory disease, including dysfunctional breathing. Edited by Patrick Davey and David Sprigings. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199568741.003.0145.

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The real burden to any sufferer of respiratory disease is shown in the human suffering of the individual. It is increasingly understood that there is a link between the psychological aspects of respiratory disease and morbidity and that patients’ attitudes to illness can affect their ways of coping and, indeed, impact upon their compliance with treatment. Breathlessness is a symptom of many psychological states, both positive and negative; indeed, it is embedded within the English language: ‘It took my breath away! I was breathless with anticipation!’ An understanding of the links between psychological factors and physical symptoms and behaviours is essential to achieve the best possible outcomes for many patients.

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Shepherd, Angela J., and Juliet M. Mckee. Osteoporosis. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190466268.003.0015.

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Osteoporotic fractures are major causes of suffering and death. Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) is the standard of care for diagnosis (T-score ≤ –2.5) of osteoporosis. Prevention of fractures requires addressing bone and muscle strength and balance. Physical exercise, good nutrition (fruits, vegetables, adequate calcium), adequate vitamin intake (C, D, and K), tobacco cessation, and no more than moderate alcohol intake enhance bone health and decrease fracture risk. Long-term treatment with glucocorticoids, certain drugs used in breast or prostate cancer treatment, and proton pump inhibitors used for gastroesophageal reflux disease may increase the risk for osteoporosis. Pharmacologically, bisphosphonates are the mainstay of osteoporosis treatment.

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DenOuden, Paul W., and Jonathan S. Appelbaum. Palliative Care and End-of-Life Support. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190493097.003.0016.

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Hospice and palliative care are part of the active care continuum. Hospice care involves an interdisciplinary approach to diagnosing and managing suffering and addressing the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of patients and their families. Hospice care should be considered when no further interventions or treatments can cure or prolong the life of a terminally ill patient with an estimated life expectancy of 6 months or less. Making the decision for hospice care is often challenging for the patient, family, and clinicians alike in the antiretroviral therapy era of HIV treatment. Evaluation and treatment of terminal syndromes such as delirium, pain, dyspnea, nausea, and dry mouth are reviewed in this chapter.

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Cassell, Eric J. The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Oxford University Press, USA, 1994.

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The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Oxford University Press, USA, 2004.

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Jones, Christina, Peter Gibb, and Ramona O. Hopkins. Testimonies in Understanding the Psychological and Cognitive Problems Faced by Survivors of Critical Illness. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199398690.003.0001.

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Millions of patients are treated in intensive care units (ICUs) each year, and the number of survivors is growing as a result of advances in critical care medicine. Unfortunately, many survivors of critical illness have substantial morbidity. Physical, psychological, and cognitive impairments are particularly common—so much so that a group of clinicians coined the term “post-intensive care syndrome” (PICS) to help raise awareness. Patients surviving critical illnesses are often quite weak, and physical therapy, hopefully starting in the ICU, is vital. But weakness is only one of the problems critical-illness survivors and their loved ones face. Unfortunately, many survivors are left with cognitive impairment (e.g., impaired memory, attention, and executive functioning), as well as distress-related psychiatric phenomena such as posttraumatic stress and depression. Importantly, these problems are not limited to adult patients, and loved ones also suffer. In this chapter the authors describe their personal journeys in coming to understand the suffering and issues that critical-illness survivors and their families face.

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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Memoirs from the House of the Dead. Edited by Ronald Hingley. Translated by Jessie Coulson. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199540518.001.0001.

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In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante’s Inferno. Terror and resignation - the rampages of a pyschopath, the brief serence interlude of Christmas Day - are evoked by Dostoevsky, writing several years after his release, with a strikingly uncharacteristic detachment. For this reason, House of the Dead is certainly the least Dostoevskian of his works, yet, paradoxically, it ranks among his great masterpieces.

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Juárez-Almendros, Encarnación. Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781786940780.001.0001.

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The book examines, from the perspective of feminist disability theories, the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. It explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory and moral discourses in order to show how these inherit, reproduce and propagate an amalgam of Western traditional concepts of the female embodiment. The book also examines concrete representations of deviant female characters, with a focus in the figure of the syphilitic prostitute and the physically decayed aged women, in a variety of literary texts such Celestina, Lozana andaluza and selected works by Cervantes and Quevedo. The analysis of the personal testimony of Teresa de Avila, a nun suffering neurological disorders, complements the discussion of early modern women’s disability. By expanding the meanings of present materiality/social construction disability theories, the book concludes that femininity, bodily afflictions, and mental instability characterize the new literary heroes in paradoxical contrast with the Spanish apex of imperial power. The broken female bodies of pre-industrial Spanish literature reveal the cracks in the foundational principles of established masculine truths such as physical and moral integrity and religious and ethnic intolerance.

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1948-, Mohrmann Margaret E., and Hanson Mark J, eds. Pain seeking understanding: Suffering, medicine, and faith. Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 1999.

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