Snake bite. by Warrell, D

“…Although the full burden of human suffering attributable to snake bite remains obscure, hundreds of thousands of people are known to be envenomed and tens of thousands are killed or maimed by snakes every year. …”

A biologist's perspective on malaria vaccine development. by Sinden, R

“…A vaccine to reduce human suffering caused by malarial parasites has been the holy grail of malaria research. …”

Going viral – Covid-19 impact assessment: A perspective beyond clinical practice by Saurabh Bobdey, Sougat Ray

“…In the past, outbreaks such as plague, Spanish flu, severe acute respiratory syndrome, and H1N1 (swine flu) have caused great human suffering. The novel coronavirus, christened as Covid-19, is a zoonotic disease which originated from the Wuhan province in China and spread like wildfire killing people and devastating the global economy. …”
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Disaster mental health and social psychiatry: Challenges and opportunities by R Srinivasa Murthy

“…The recent flood disaster in the southern state of Kerala illustrates many of the areas where Indian Social Psychiatry can, and should, rise to the challenges of mitigating human suffering and protecting the mental health of disaster-affected people. …”
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Sobre la construcción del no-mundo en la tortura by Ángela Uribe Botero

“…En su libro Morality Self-knwoledge and Human Suffering. An Essay on the Loss of Confidence in the World, Josep Corbí hace un análisis de las descripciones de Jean Améry sobre la tortura de la que fue víctima en 1943. …”
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More Harm Than Public Health in Drug Policy? A Comment by Joanne Csete

“…Overly zealous drug-control policies, moreover, have led to enormous human suffering, as many countries have restricted the use of opioids for the relief of pain associated with cancer and other conditions.  …”
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Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Improve Emotional State by Ainara Aranberri Ruiz

“…Currently, there is an increasing prevalence of emotional disorders that cause great human suffering and high socioeconomic costs. Emotional processing has a biological basis. …”
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Capitalism with a Human Face: Neoliberal Ideology in Neill Blomkamp's District 9 by Stephen Trinder

“…Through an exploration of private military contractor Multinational United (MNU), lead protagonist Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley), and the film's spatial composition, this article argues that District 9 works in support of neoliberalism by constructing a social reality that sidesteps genuine criticisms of neoliberalism's role in continued socio-economic marginalisation and ongoing human suffering. This is evident in hollow criticisms of corporate capitalism vis-à-vis MNU and ignorant misrepresentations of the alien Other, which reinforce discourses of cultural and ethnic superiority associated with neoliberalism.…”
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Anti-Idiotypic mRNA Vaccine to Treat Autoimmune Disorders by Sarfaraz K. Niazi

“…The 80+ existing autoimmune disorders (ADs) affect billions with little prevention or treatment options, except for temporary symptomatic management, leading to enormous human suffering and a monumental financial burden. The autoantibodies formed in most ADs have been identified, allowing the development of novel anti-idiotypic antibodies to mute the autoantibodies using vaccines. …”
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Bearing the mark of pain: mystery in medicine by Karel-Bart Celie, John J. Paris

“…The authors contend that the human suffering encountered in medicine is one such phenomenon, and the paper draws on illustrations of this concept in art and literature. …”
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Hidden Suffering and the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences by William Fulford

“…To understand suffering is to understand what it means to be human. Suffering focuses our attention on our vulnerability, which we would rather ignore or deny. …”
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Theories of God: Explanatory coherence in religious cognition. by Andrew Shtulman, Max Rattner

“…Adults of various religious affiliations (n = 275) completed a questionnaire that probed their beliefs about God, angels, Satan, Heaven, Hell, cosmogenesis, anthropogenesis, human suffering, and human misdeeds, as well as their experiences regarding prayer, worship, and religious development. …”
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Pregnancy and Multiple Births rate after Transferring 2 or 3 Embryos by F Mostajeran, E Haftbaradaran

“…Background: In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a progressing common reproduction method and if the number of transferred embryo increases, the pregnancy rate and multiple pregnancies will increase which may lead to higher medical costs and human suffering. We compared pregnancy and multiple pregnancies rate after two or three transferred embryo via IVF.
 Methods: From April 2003 to June 2004, 301 referred infertile women to Isfahan infertility center underwent IVF with transferring two or three good quality embryos.
 Results: From 298 patients, 2 and 3 embryos were transferred in 155 patients and in 143 patients, respectively. …”
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An introduction to neglected disasters by Ben Wisner, JC Gaillard

“…All these changes call for a re-assessment of why some human suffering and social disruption receive attention from authorities, donors, researchers and the media, while some does not. …”
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Mapping the Motif of the Wandering Jew in Salim Kumar’s Karutha Joothan by Jeslin Mery John, Asha Susan Jacob

“…But because of the comprehensive nature of its features, this motif is able to deliver its essential message of human suffering even as it migrates through diverse cultural environments, as the interaction of its axiological elements with their newly acquired social and cultural contexts has the capacity to appear seamless and unlaboured. …”
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La dimension métaphysique du devoir de mémoire. Prendre conscience de la nature humaine lors d’une visite à Auschwitz-Birkenau by Nathanaël Wadbled

“…On the other hand, the responsibility to ensure that this kind of event does not happen again doesn’t mean not to be attentive to the non-reproduction of past political and ideological conditions, but rather to recognize the present human suffering.…”
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Intensive Geographien – die Versorgung von extremen Frühgeburten in Deutschland aus praxistheoretischer Perspektive by M. Lahr-Kurten

“…Despite being sites of enormous human suffering und huge financial costs, the places of treatment of these babies are almost non-existent in societal discourse. …”
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Les clivages institutionnels souffrances de l’entre soi au travail by Sydney Gaultier

“…Such divisions fall into a scenario of exclusion and a logic of rivalry among colleagues. The human suffering generated by this phenomenon and the negative consequences for the people receiving aid remain understudied. …”
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The relevance of the social context for media coverage of victims by Pavićević Olivera, Bulatović Aleksandra

“…Media coverage of human suffering caused by trauma, illness, poverty and disasters worldwide takes up a significant part of media coverage and affects the identity of all actors, both active and passive. …”
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Beyond Emotion: Empathy, Social Contagion and Cultural Literacy by Crawshaw Robert

“…This paper reviews the implications for research in cultural literacy of the current hypothesis that revolutionary advances in communication technology are inseparable from an over-reliance on emotion, both in the representation of global disaster and human suffering and as a means of manipulating public behaviour in the political and commercial spheres. …”
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