The paper presents an account of suffering as a multi-level phenomenon based on concepts
such as mood, being-in-the-world and core life value. This phenomenological account will …

This article develops a phenomenology of suffering with an emphasis on matters relevant to
medical practice and bioethics. An attempt is made to explain how suffering can involve …

Background This article aims to contribute to a better conceptualization of pain and suffering
by providing non-essential and non-naturalistic definitions of both phenomena …

These lines in the Hippocratic Oath seem clear enough. The oath prohibits physicians to
facilitate for their ill patients to take their lives. This conclusion has been questioned …

Background One of the objectives of medicine is to relieve patients' suffering. As a
consequence, it is important to understand patients' perspectives of suffering and their ability …

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 …

Len Doyal taught philosophy at Middlesex University for over two decades. Because of his
pioneering work in teaching medical ethics to doctors and medical students in the 1980s, he …

This interdisciplinary study defines voluntary euthanasia re transcendent values, and uses a
“self-death” concept linking ideas about suicide and euthanasia. Attitudes and beliefs are …

Death is not always the main concern of the dying person. Dependency, isolation, pain,
physical disfigurement, and fear of abandonment are among the issues that are sometimes …

Thomasma and Graber, medical ethics theorists and clinical practitioners, present a
definitive examination of the actions that fall under the aegis of euthanasia--the art of …