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The Nature of Suffering

Eric J. Cassell

In The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine. New York: Oxford University Press (2004)

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Suffering and the goals of medicine.Stan van Hooft - 1998 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 1 (2):125-131.details Taking as its starting point a recent statement of the Goals of Medicine published by the Hastings Centre, this paper argues against the dualistic distinction between pain and suffering. It uses an Aristotelian conception of the person to suggest that malady, pain, and disablement are objective forms of suffering not dependent upon any state of consciousness of the victim. As a result, medicine effectively relieves suffering when it cures malady and relieves pain. There is no medical mission to confront the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 18 citations
A Legacy of Silence: Bioethics and the Culture of Pain. [REVIEW]Ben A. Rich - 1997 - Journal of Medical Humanities 18 (4):233-259.details For over 20 years the medical literature has carefully documented the undertreatment of all types of pain by physicians. During this same period, as the field of bioethics came of age, the phenomenon of undertreated pain received almost no attention from the bioethics literature. This article takes bioethicists to task for failing to recognize the undertreatment of pain as a major ethical, and not merely a clinical, failing of the medical profession. The nature and extent of the problem of undertreated (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 7 citations
An Anatomy of Illness.David Biro - 2012 - Journal of Medical Humanities 33 (1):41-54.details Because it focuses primarily on the sick body (disease), medicine ignores many of the concerns and needs of sick people. By listening to the stories of patients in the clinic, on the Internet, and in published book form, health care providers could gain a better understanding of the impact of disease on the person (illness), what it means to patients over and above their physical symptoms and what they might require over and above surgery or chemotherapy. Only by familiarizing themselves (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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