ArticleMedicine, health care, and philosophy2017
Suffering and dying well: on the proper aim of palliative care.
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- Non-somatic Suffering in Palliative Care: A Qualitative Study on Patients' Perspectives.Journal of palliative care · 2022Article
- Integration of primary palliative care into geriatric care from the Indian perspective.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
- Dying as an issue of public concern: cultural scripts on palliative care in Sweden.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2021Article
- What's suffering got to do with it? A qualitative study of suffering in the context of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID).BMC palliative care · 2021Article
- Psychometric Testing of the Spanish Modified Version of the Mini-Suffering State Examination.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in Patients With Multiple Geriatric Syndromes.JAMA internal medicine · 2021Article
- "Oh, My God! My Season Is Over!" COVID-19 and Regulation of the Psychological Response in Spanish High-Performance Athletes.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Death without distress? The taboo of suffering in palliative care.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2020Article
- Uncertainty of Prenatally Diagnosed Congenital Heart Disease: A Qualitative Study.JAMA network open · 2020Article
- Suffering measurement instruments in palliative care: protocol for a systematic psychometric review.BMJ open · 2019Article
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- Rehabilitation of Advanced Cancer Patients in Palliative Care Unit.Annals of rehabilitation medicine · 2018Article
- Public Health Perspective of Primary Palliative Care: A Review through the Lenses of General Practitioners.Indian journal of palliative careReview
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Abstract
In recent years a large empirical literature has appeared on suffering at the end of life. In this literature it is recognized that suffering has existential and social dimensions in addition to physical and psychological ones. The non-physical aspects of suffering, however, are still understood as pathological symptoms, to be reduced by therapeutical interventions as much as possible. But suffering itself and the negative emotional states it consists of are intentional states of mind which, as such, make cognitive claims: they are more or less appropriate responses to the actual circumstances of the patient. These circumstances often are such that it would rather be a pathological symptom not to be sad and not to suffer. Suffering, therefore, is sometimes and to some extent a condition to be respected. Although I do not dispute that the alleviation of suffering is the main aim of palliative care, in pursuing that aim we should acknowledge a constraint of realism.
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