enerbol and Pain

Human existence is marked by imperfection, whose expression--among other things--is suffering. The problem of answering the question about the meaning of suffering for human life in its entirety is of great significance in philosophy and theology. In the Old Testament it meant God's punishment for the evil done by man. In Christianity this bleak notion of suffering has found a new dimension--suffering is creative, redemptive in character; it enables a man to surpass his limits. The understanding of suffering and its sense has a profound meaning in building a suitable attitude of a sick person towards his own weakness.

Topics: Attitude to Health; Christianity; Humans; Life; Pain; Religion and Medicine

Topics: Adaptation, Psychological; Child; Child, Hospitalized; Empathy; Humans; Life; Medical Staff, Hospital; Pain; Physician-Patient Relations; Professionalism; Terminally Ill

Topics: Analgesics, Opioid; Death; Humans; Life; Pain; Palliative Care; Terminal Care

Fibromyalgia is a significant health problem for women of working age. However, little is known about the long-term effects of fibromyalgia in everyday life or on work ability.. A narrative interview study was conducted to explore the experiences of work ability and functioning of patients with a long history of fibromyalgia. Twenty women, aged 34-65 years, were purposively chosen for the interviews, to reach a wide range of patients with different social and professional backgrounds.. Four types of experience concerning work ability were identified in the narratives: confusion, coping with fluctuating symptoms, being 'in between' and being over the edge of exhaustion. Severe pain and fatigue symptoms, combined with a demanding life situation and ageing, seemed to lead to substantial decrease in work ability and functioning over the long term. In the narratives, vocational rehabilitation or adjustments to work tasks were rarely seen or were started too late to be effective.. Exploring the life stories of women with fibromyalgia can reveal the perceived causes and consequences of fibromyalgia related to work ability or disability, which can be utilized in developing client-centred rehabilitation approaches and effective interventions to support work ability and avoid premature retirement in fibromyalgia patients.

Topics: Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; Aged; Communication; Female; Fibromyalgia; Humans; Interviews as Topic; Life; Middle Aged; Pain; Social Environment; Time; Work

Hope is the foundation of the cancer patients' world and it is when the darkness is most profound that hope emerges as the true reality. Hope remains the patients' inner strength, a dynamism that grows more powerful even as the physical body weakens. We humans are always hoping for something and The Hope System addresses all levels of the entire cancer experience: physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual. By systematically learning how to recognize and honor patients' hopes, each of us can support him/her from first diagnosis to last breath in a way that is healing and positive for all. Utilizing this simple, powerful tool enables us to tap into the patient's ever changing reality, the role hope plays in one's life while confronting one's mortality, and be able to listen, hear and accompany them each step on their final life into death journey.

Topics: Adaptation, Psychological; Emotions; Hope; Humans; Life; Neoplasms; Pain

Topics: Adaptation, Psychological; Adolescent; Child; Emotions; Humans; Life; Models, Neurological; Pain; Regression Analysis

Testing embryonic cells for genetic abnormalities gives us the capacity to predict whether and to what extent people will exist with disease and disability. Moreover, the freezing of embryos for long periods of time enables us to alter the length of a normal human lifespan. After highlighting the shortcomings of somatic-cell gene therapy and germ-line genetic alteration, I argue that the testing and selective termination of genetically defective embryos is the only medically and morally defensible way to prevent the existence of people with severe disability, pain and suffering that make their lives not worth living for them on the whole. In addition, I consider the possible harmful effects on children born from frozen embryos after the deaths of their biological parents, or when their parents are at an advanced age. I also explore whether embryos have moral status and whether the prospects for disease-preventing genetic alteration can justify long-term cryopreservation of embryos.

Topics: Age of Onset; Altruism; Beginning of Human Life; Beneficence; Child; Cryopreservation; Disabled Persons; Embryo Disposition; Embryo, Mammalian; Ethics; Eugenics; Fetal Diseases; Fetus; Genetic Diseases, Inborn; Genetic Engineering; Genetic Enhancement; Genetic Testing; Genetic Therapy; Germ Cells; Humans; Individuality; Life; Moral Obligations; Pain; Parents; Personhood; Persons with Mental Disabilities; Posthumous Conception; Preimplantation Diagnosis; Quality of Life; Reproduction; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; Risk; Risk Assessment; Self Concept; Social Justice; Social Responsibility; Stress, Psychological; Time Factors; Value of Life; Wounds and Injuries; Wrongful Life

Topics: Humans; Life; Pain; Philosophy, Medical

Topics: Abortion, Induced; Anencephaly; Beginning of Human Life; Bioethics; Biology; Biomedical Research; Brain; Brain Death; Dissent and Disputes; Embryo, Mammalian; Embryonic and Fetal Development; Fertilization in Vitro; Fetus; France; Group Processes; Human Experimentation; Human Rights; Humans; Individuality; Information Dissemination; Information Services; Interdisciplinary Communication; Interprofessional Relations; Life; Pain; Persistent Vegetative State; Personhood; Philosophy; Politics; Professional Competence; Public Policy; Religion; Research; Science; Social Change; Terminology as Topic; Theology; United Kingdom; United States; Value of Life

Topics: Abortion, Induced; Advance Directives; Altruism; Beginning of Human Life; Beneficence; Biomedical Technology; Decision Making; Dementia; Double Effect Principle; Ethics; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Fetus; Freedom; Health Care Rationing; Hospices; Humans; Individuality; Intention; Judaism; Jurisprudence; Life; Life Support Care; Medical Futility; Motivation; Nutritional Support; Pain; Persistent Vegetative State; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Reference Standards; Religion; Resource Allocation; Resuscitation Orders; Right to Die; Risk; Risk Assessment; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Theology; Third-Party Consent; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Tissue Donors; Treatment Refusal; Value of Life; Ventilators, Mechanical; Withholding Treatment

Topics: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Beginning of Human Life; Beneficence; Bioethical Issues; Casuistry; Chronic Disease; Contracts; Cultural Diversity; Ethical Analysis; Ethical Theory; Ethics, Clinical; Ethics, Medical; Human Characteristics; Humans; Life; Life Support Care; Male; Moral Obligations; Morals; Pain; Personal Autonomy; Personhood; Physician-Patient Relations; Resource Allocation; Social Justice; Social Values; Stress, Psychological; Trust; Virtues

The fetal human possesses an active central nervous system from at least the eighth week of development. Until mid-gestation the most significant center of activity is the brainstem. By the end of the first trimester, it appears that the brainstem could be acting as a rudimentary modulator of sensory information and motor activity. What importance ought to be attached to such regulatory activity is uncertain. Some argue that it represents a level of integrated activity sufficient to bolster an argument for conferring some measure of standing at this point. Our thinking about sentience is not advanced a great deal, as we as yet have no good way of talking about it at the brainstem level. As for the neocortex, available evidence indicates that it does not become a functional part of the neuraxis until at least mid-gestation. It is not until then that the thalamus--the major gateway for sensory input to the cerebrum--makes its first afferent contacts with the neocortex.. A review is provided of what is known about the development of the central nervous system of the human fetus. Four processes are featured: the appearance of fetal motor activity; development of the neocortex; establishment of a connection between the neocortex and its major input channel, the thalamus; and maturation of the electrical activity of the brain. Very tentative observations are made concerning the implications of neuromaturational events for the development of fetal sentience and fetal pain.

Topics: Beginning of Human Life; Central Nervous System; Cerebral Cortex; Embryo, Mammalian; Female; Fetus; Gestational Age; Human Characteristics; Humans; Life; Motor Activity; Neural Pathways; Pain; Personhood; Pregnancy; Reflex; Sensation; Thalamus

Topics: Beginning of Human Life; Embryo Research; Embryo, Mammalian; Ethical Theory; Ethics; Fertilization in Vitro; Fetus; Humans; Individuality; Informed Consent; Life; Maternal-Fetal Relations; Moral Obligations; Ownership; Pain; Personhood; Public Policy; Research; Risk; Risk Assessment; Social Responsibility; Tissue Banks

Topics: Life; Pain

Topics: History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Life; Literature; Pain; Publications

Topics: Emotions; Genitalia; Humans; Life; Pain; Stress, Physiological