Human flourishing has recently emerged as a construct of interest in clinical and population-
health studies. Its origins as a focus of research are rooted in philosophical writing dating to …

Suffering is inevitable in human life. Our perspective paper theorizes on precise
mechanisms for how self-transcendence—the state in which an individual looks beyond the …

Predicting the future course of critical conditions involves personal experience, heuristics
and statistical models. Although these methods may perform well for some cases and …

This descriptive qualitative study was planned to determine the views of intern nursing
students about death and end-of-life care. The study was completed with 12 intern students …

Understanding, measuring, and mitigating pain-related suffering is a key challenge for both
clinical care and pain research. However, there is no consensus on what exactly the concept …

As medical assistance in dying (MAiD) is becoming a legal option in an increasing number
of jurisdictions, palliative care (PC) organisations, services and practitioners are increasingly …

Loneliness in medicine is a serious problem not just for patients, for whom illness is
intrinsically isolating, but also for physicians in the contemporary condition of medicine. We …

From Technological Humanity to Bio-technical Existence can be framed as a metaphysics of
the present. It starts from the current epoch, an era increasingly marked not only by …

In an 1846 literary review entitled 'The Present Age'(den nuværende tidsalder), Søren
Kierkegaard offers a scathing indictment of modern Western culture. He refers to its shallow …

My paper challenges an influential distinction between pain and suffering put forward by
physician-ethicist, Eric Cassell. I argue that Cassell's distinction is philosophically untenable …