La Peste d’Albert Camus : une analyse de la société coloniale algérienne à travers le prisme de l’épidémie by Berardi, Alessia

“…We will explore to what extent the plague is an allegory of human suffering and isolate the different levels on which the allegory may work. …”
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Human dignity and the future of the voluntary active euthanasia debate in South Africa by Donrich W Jordaan

“…In this article, I identify these errors and propose the following three corrective principles to inform future debate on the subject: (i) human dignity is violable; (ii) human suffering violates human dignity; and (iii) the ‘natural’ causes of suffering due to terminal illness do not exclude the application of human dignity.…”
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Process-based therapy: A personalized approach to treatment by Danielle M Moskow, Clarissa W Ong, Steven C Hayes, Stefan G Hofmann

“…Here, we describe Process-Based Therapy (PBT), a new way of thinking that is moving away from nomothetic studies of diagnosis-driven interventions toward an individual approach to treatment that recognizes the complexity of human suffering. In PBT, therapists select from a wide range of evidence-based interventions, tailoring treatment to meet a person’s needs at a given point in time. …”
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Is the universe indifferent? Should we care? by Kahane, G

“…The scientific worldview is often claimed to reveal a universe chillingly indifferent to human suffering. But it’s unclear what it means to describe the universe as indifferent, or what a non-indifferent universe would be like. …”

Determination of flow characteristics in the vegetated compound channels by Ismail, Zulhilmi, Harun, Sobri, Ibrahim, Zulkiflee

“…The recent floods in Malaysia such as in the states of Johor, Pahang, Kelantan, Terengganu and Kedah resulted huge damages to buildings, infrastructures, crops and also human suffering. In overbank flow conditions, a large momentum exchange takes place between main channel and floodplain flows. …”
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Impacto de advertencias sanitarias del empaquetado de cigarros: un análisis comparativo en Brasil, Uruguay y México Assessing the impact of cigarette package health warning labels:... by James F Thrasher, Victor Villalobos, André Szklo, Geoffrey T Fong, Cristina Pérez, Ernesto Sebrié, Natalie Sansone, Valeska Figueiredo, Marcelo Boado, Edna Arillo-Santillán, Eduardo Bianco

“…This study suggests that HWLs have the most impact when they are prominent (i.e., front and back of the package) and include emotionally engaging imagery that illustrates negative bodily impacts or human suffering due to smoking.…”
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Die verhaal as mitiese vraagstelling: die verhaalkuns van Henriette Grové by Heilna du Plooy

“…Story as mythical questioning: The narrative art of Henriette Grové Henriette Grove's stories are mostly concerned with the nature and meaning of human experience, especially human suffering. In this article an effort is made to characterize these stories, indicating the relation between the stories and a way of thinking that is primarily concerned with metaphysical, mythical and religious issues. …”
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Drought in the sertão as a natural or social phenomenon: establishing the Inspetoria Federal de Obras Contra as Secas, 1909-1923 by Eve Elizabeth Buckley

“…Because the drought agency's technical personnel never had the political will or muscle to confront the social organization underlying the sertão's recurrent calamity, their ability to alleviate the human suffering that droughts precipitated was severely limited.…”
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Workplace Suicide and States of Denial: The France Telecom and Foxconn Cases Compared by Sarah Waters

“…Suicides and their social recognition threaten the vested interests of corporate and political elites by giving material embodiment to relations of production in the form of extreme human suffering. This article focuses on 'suicide waves' at two distant corporations in the information and communications sector: in France, the telecoms provider, France Télécom (rebranded Orange in 2013) and in China, electronics supplier, Foxconn. …”
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PREVENTION OF ISCHEMIC STROKE Antiplatelet Agents, Carotid Endarterectomy and Angioplasty and Stenting by Harold P. Adams

“…In addition, stroke is a leading cause of disability and human suffering. A preponderance of strokes is secondary to arterial occlusions often due to atherosclerosis. …”
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Why Superman Will Not Save the World: Theorizing the Relationship Between Suffering and DC Comics Superman by Kwasu Tembo

“…In order to do so, this paper refers to psychoanalytic concepts elaborated by Sigmund Freud in his text Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1922) as a way of demonstrating that despite the character's conventional appraisal as a positivist humanistic symbol of pure altruism, an insuperable, unimpeachable symbol of selflessness and good morality, there is in fact a fundamental link between Superman's 'tridentity' of selves (Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman), the character's own suffering, and human suffering on a terrestrial scale, as represented within the numerous realities of the DC Comics Multiverse.…”
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Home care for advanced cancer: Results and challenges by Pannuti Franco, Pannuti Francesco, Tanneberger Stephan

“…We consider the Bologna Eubiosia Project initiated by ANT in 1985 and supported by numerous political, religious and private bodies independent from their political color, as an example of successful fighting against human suffering. However, there is no doubt that Eubiosia has to be realized at the beginning of the 21st century in a way, different from the one of 30 years ago. …”
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Animal Suffering, God and Lessons from the Book of Job by Georg Gasser

“…Finally, in the main part of the argumentation, I pursue the question to what extent the problem of animal (and human) suffering does not arise for a concept of God couched in less personalistic terms. …”
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Philip Barry’s Here Come the Clowns and The Question of Theodicity by Agnieszka Woźniakowska

“…Barry’s Here Come the Clowns (1938), a serious play with autobiographical overtones, focuses on the problem of free will and of human suffering in the world. It is a dramatization the biblical story of Job, as the protagonist is a man who has been inflicted with physical and emotional suffering. …”
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Identity, difference and healing: Reading <i>Beloved</i> within the context of John Caputo’s theory of hermeneutics by B. du Plooy, P. Ryan

“…While basing his reading of madness as a form of human suffering on the work of Foucault, Caputo moves beyond Foucaultian theory – “in a direction that, while it was not taken by Foucault, is perhaps suggested by him” (Caputo, 1993:234) – by envisioning a hermeneutics of response and redress and a therapeutics of “healing gestures” (Caputo, 1993:234). …”
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Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Building Wholeness Through Connection by Gita Vaid MD, Barry Walker MEd

“…These shifts in internal health are correspondingly reflected in enhanced empathy, improved relatedness, and increased capacity for social connection. Much of human suffering and disregard for the planet is a reflection of our own collective inner impoverishment, fundamental disconnects, and unaddressed trauma. …”
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Pain under medical treatment by José Luis Díaz Agea

“…The main objective of this essay is to draw some light about human pain, human suffering and give modern ways to achieve it since the holistic point of view Anthropology offers as a hermeneutical discipline. …”
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Influence of Covid 19 pandemic on intercultural communication and dialogue by Gaurav Sharma

“…This Paper reveals the complication of physical contact, impact of the pandemic, human suffering, hybrid education, social disruption, and social inequality. …”
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An Evangelical Discourse on God’s Foreknowledge in Relation to Moral Evil by Professor Godfrey Harold

“…In this article, I shall ask whether Boyd’s approach may be regarded as a fruitful extrapolation of an understanding of divine foreknowledge within the evangelical tradition in relation to human suffering.…”
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Strengthening women engagement in post-Conflict Peace-building in North-East Nigeria: An interrogation of the UN Resolution 1325 by Olawale James Gbadeyan, Adedolapo Adegboyega Ola, Oluwaseun Samuel Osadola, Olusola Mathew Ojo

“…The study argues that by domesticating the UNSCR1325, the strategies for mitigating the human suffering inflicted on the people by the insurgency would be sufficiently engendered to address the needs of women who are mostly impacted by the insurgencies as mothers, wives’ sisters and daughters.…”
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