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  1. Expecting pain.Frederique de Vignemont - 2023 - Synthese 202 (5):1-18.
    There is a large amount of evidence of placebo and nocebo effects showing that one’s expectation of a forthcoming pain can influence the subsequent experience of pain. Here I shall not discuss the implications of these findings for the nature of pain, but focus instead on the nature of pain anticipation itself. This notion indeed remains poorly analysed and it is unclear what type of anticipatory state it involves. I shall argue that there is more to pain anticipation than a (...)
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  2. La masculinité grotesque au dix-huitième siècle : Ingenious Pain d’Andrew Miller et The Giant, O’Brien d’Hilary Mantel.Chantel Lavoie - 2022 - Lumen: Selected Proceedings From the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 41:183.
    This paper considers masculinity in two twentieth-century historical novels set in the eighteenth century: Andrew Miller’s Ingenious Pain (1997) and Hilary Mantel’s The Giant, O’Brien (1998). It argues that both novels create protagonists who embody masculine-coded attributes, including resistance to pain and bodily size and strength, and that, in both novels, earning potential is concomitant with such attributes. Complicating matters, however, the very exaggeration of stereotypical masculine characteristics in these texts causes each man to seem something other and less than (...)
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  3. Evaluation of Pain in the Critical Care Unit Patients Who Had Intubated and Sedated.Fatma Güçlü & Serap Ünsar - 2023 - In Kıymet Tunca Çalıyurt (ed.), Integrity, Transparency and Corruption in Healthcare & Research on Health, Volume II. Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 201-215.
    This study was planned as cross-sectional, single group, preliminary, and final test in order to evaluate the pain behaviors and the effecting factors during the aspiration and positioning of intubated and sedated patients who received treatment in the adult intensive care unit. The study was carried out with 91 patients, who were under treatment in the 3rd level intensive care unit of a state hospital in Edirne between the dates of 13.11.2017 and 12.01.2018. The data were collected by patient information (...)
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  4. Vous reprendrez bien un peu de pain sec?Julien Rodriguez - 2010 - L’Enseignement Philosophique 60 (3):39-43.
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  5. “But I Am Afflicted” Attending to Persons in Pain and Modern Health Care.Sarah Jean Barton & Brett McCarty - 2023 - Christian Bioethics 29 (3):177-182.
    Over one in five adults in the United States and around the world are estimated to live with chronic pain. How are we to attend well to persons living with pain? This is a difficult, pressing question for both healthcare institutions and Christian communities, and it is only made more complex both by the contemporary opioid crisis and by how experiences of pain and addiction are shaped in the American context by race, gender, and class. Attending faithfully to persons in (...)
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  6. Faithfully Describing and Responding to Addiction and Pain: Christian “Homefulness” and Desire.John Swinton & Emmy Yang - 2023 - Christian Bioethics 29 (3):256-266.
    This investigation develops in three steps. First, we seek to complexify the opioid crisis in a way that helps us to see how the issues of misguided desire and misplaced attachments are fundamentally important for a theological account of opioid addiction.1 Second, acknowledging the connections between pain and opioid addiction, we explore some of the ways in which our understanding of pain can influence our understanding of and responses to opioid use. Finally, we offer some tentative reflections on the theological (...)
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  7. Reclaiming Broken Bodies (or, This Is Gonna Hurt Some): Pain, Healing, and the Opioid Crisis.Joel James Shuman - 2023 - Christian Bioethics 29 (3):235-243.
    I argue here that the ways we experience, think about, and treat pain are bound up with sociocultural and technological phenomena that shape our desires and expectations. I propose a way of imagining caring for and offering healing to those who suffer pain informed by the Christian theological tradition. This way does not aspire to replace the care and healing made possible by modern medicine, but rather to place it within the common life of a community of mutual love, hospitality, (...)
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  8. Suffering Illness as an Ascetic: Lessons for Women in Pain.Devan Stahl - 2023 - Christian Bioethics 29 (3):244-255.
    Women’s pain remains underappreciated, undertheorized, and undertreated in both medicine and theology. The ascetic practices of women in pain, however, can help Christians understand and navigate their own pain and suffering, particularly because they are experienced in the context of chronic illness and disability. In what follows, I argue that Christians would do better to view the pain that accompanies disability and chronic illness as a potential resource for spiritual practice rather than an example of sin or evil. I begin (...)
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  9. Responding Wisely to Persistent Pain: Insights from Patristic Theology and Clinical Experience.Farr A. Curlin - 2023 - Christian Bioethics 29 (3):196-206.
    For most of the past generation, clinicians have been taught to treat patients' pain until the patient says it is relieved. The opioid crisis has forced both clinicians and patients to reconsider that approach. This essay considers how Christians in particular might assume and seek to overcome their experiences of persistent pain. Wise and faithful responses to pain, especially chronic pain, can take their bearings from how early Christians made sense of the place of both medicine and suffering in a (...)
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  10. Responding to People in Pain with Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.Jaime Konerman-Sease - 2023 - Christian Bioethics 29 (3):207-220.
    Eliminating pain is problematic when it comes to caring for people with disabilities or chronic pain. This paper locates the drive to completely eliminate pain as a project of the Enlightenment and contrasts it with the tradition of interpreting suffering throughout the Christian tradition. I introduce Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park as a way to continue the tradition of interpretative suffering after the Enlightenment. Using textual analysis of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, I demonstrate how the novel’s heroine, Fanny Price, is (...)
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  11. Palliative care and pain management : resources for direct care providers.Amy C. Stevens, Anne-Marie Barron & Patricia N. Rissmiller - 2010 - In Sandra L. Friedman & David T. Helm (eds.), End-of-life care for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
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  12. Reshaping [Your] Reality. [2] The mental image of pain - from imagination, sensation to reality.Any Docu Axelerad - 2022 - Dialogo 8 (2):44-49.
    Sensory-perceptive activity expresses the attributes of real objects and provides information connected to both external and internal reality. Perception helps us embed the information taken from sensations, helping us form the perceptive image that must be completed by each individual in their existence. Practically, perception facilitates the adaptation to reality depending on the experiences of each individual. A method that patients may learn to control their various perceptions is self-regulation by mental images, and here we can consider various approaches to (...)
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  13. Patients with Invisible Pain: How Might We See This Pain and Help These Patients More?Edmund G. Howe - 2023 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 34 (3):219-224.
    In this piece I discuss two ways in which providers may become able to treat patients better. The first is for them to encourage all medical parties, including medical students, to always speak up. The second is to take initiatives to learn of pain that patients feel but neither show nor spontaneously report. They may refer to this pain as invisible pain, often bitterly, in that others not seeing their pain judge them wrongly and harshly. Providers, once seeing this pain, (...)
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  14. "Every Perception Is Accompanied by Pain!": Theophrastus's Criticism of Anaxagoras.Wei Cheng - 2023 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 61 (4):559-583.
    abstract: Anaxagoras is notorious for his view that every perception is accompanied by pain but that not all concurrent pains are distinctly felt by the perceiving subject. This thesis is reported and criticized by Aristotle's heir Theophrastus in his De Sensibus. Traditionally, scholars believe that Theophrastus rejects Anaxagoras's thesis of the ubiquity of pain as counterintuitive, with the appeal to unfelt pain looking like a desperate category mistake given that pain is nothing but a feeling. Contra the traditional view, this (...)
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  15. Flesh, Scars, and Clay. The Role of Pain and Bodies in the Creation of Identity and Meaning.Marco Favaro - 2023 - In Marco Favaro & Justin F. Martin (eds.), Batman’s Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls. London: Lexington Books. pp. 109-121.
    The mask's role is central to the superhero narrative. The mask is a non-human identity, which replaces the civilian, human one; sometimes forever. It is what happens to the majority of Gotham's villains. While Batman can take off his mask and at least pretend to be Bruce Wayne, many of his enemies do not have the same privilege. For characters like Two-Face, Joker, Zsasz, and Clayface, the mask is carved directly into their bodies. Like masks, scars can replace one's identity, (...)
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  16. Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity, by Helen Rhee. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2022.Molly Ayn Jones-Lewis - forthcoming - Journal of Medical Humanities:1-3.
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  17. Can a Thought's Whole Subject-Matter Be Itself? The Case of Pain.D. Goldstick - forthcoming - Dialogue:1-7.
    Résumé La croyance que l'on est (ou pas) dans un état de douleur est singulière en ceci qu'elle semble pouvoir être qualifiée d'infaillibilité ou d'incorrigibilité logique, de même que le cogito. Mais comment se peut-il que l'existence d'une croyance (vraie) et l'existence du fait qui est l'objet de cette croyance puisssent constituer la même existence? Je propose ici une réponse à cette question. Parfois, une croyance peut être un désir.
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  18. Art and the Lived Experience of Pain.Panayiota Vassilopoulou - 2023 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 94:15-38.
    Mental health has become a key concern within social discourse in recent years, and with it, the discussion about the lived experience of pain. In dealing with this experience there has been a shift away from merely relying on medical care towards more holistic approaches involving community support, public awareness, and social change. However, little if any attention has been paid in this context to the contribution of aesthetic experience engendered by art that expresses and publicly shares with others the (...)
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  19. Relational Pain: The Perspective from the Other Side of the Lens.Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza - 2022 - Constructivist Foundations 17 (2):152-154.
    Open peer commentary on the article “Kaleidoscope of Pain: What and How Do You See Through It” by Maja Smrdu. Abstract: Relational dynamics are the vital cornerstone for a holistic understanding of chronic pain, particularly for a 5E stance. Enactivism and Buddhism prove most expedient to examine such dynamics in a theoretical and practical fashion.
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  20. Panopticon of Pain.Vincent Kenny - 2022 - Constructivist Foundations 17 (2):158-161.
    Open peer commentary on the article “Kaleidoscope of Pain: What and How Do You See Through It” by Maja Smrdu. Abstract: Pain remains an unintelligible mystery. Given Smrdu’s efforts to expand the horizons for dealing with chronic pain, I re-present some constructivist ideas regarding communication, including commonly assumed features of communications between patients and clinicians, in particular sharing experience and understanding.
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  21. Variety in the Experience of Pain and Its Explanation.Philipp Schmidt - 2022 - Constructivist Foundations 17 (2):154-156.
    Open peer commentary on the article “Kaleidoscope of Pain: What and How Do You See Through It” by Maja Smrdu. Abstract: Welcoming Smrdu’s proposal to shed light on the experience of pain through the lens of phenomenology and enactivism, I offer two suggestions that may support the kind of 5E approach to pain she develops. First, I argue that a shift from the biopsychosocial model to a phenomenological 5E theory requires understanding “experience” as functioning as both explanans and explanandum. Second, (...)
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  22. Kaleidoscope of Pain: What and How Do You See Through It.Maja Smrdu - 2022 - Constructivist Foundations 17 (2):136-147.
    Context: Among the many theories of pain, the biopsychosocial explanation of pain remains the most established in medicine. However, the three components are unevenly represented, with emphasis on the biological component. From this perspective the experience of pain may considered as an epiphenomenon. Problem: I empirically investigated the characteristics of pain (especially chronic pain) and investigated how these characteristics relate to existing conceptualizations of pain. Method: A case-study approach was used to demonstrate different ways of understanding and describing pain. Case-study (...)
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  23. Chronic Pain, Enactivism, & the Challenges of Integration.Sabrina Coninx & Peter Stilwell - 2023 - In Mark-Oliver Casper & Giuseppe Flavio Artese (eds.), Situated Cognition Research: Methodological Foundations. Springer Verlag. pp. 241-276.
    Chronic pain is one of the most disabling conditions globally, yet we are still missing a satisfying theoretical framework to guide research and clinical practice. This is highly relevant as research and practice are not taking place in a vacuum but are always shaped by a particular philosophy of pain, that is, a set of implicitly or explicitly prevailing assumptions about what chronic pain is and how it is to be addressed. In looking at recent history, we identify a promising (...)
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  24. Reading words hurts: the impact of pain sensitivity on people’s ratings of pain-related words.Kevin Reuter, Markus Werning, Lars Kuchinke & Erica Cosentino - 2017 - Language and Cognition 9 (3):553-567.
    This study explores the relation between pain sensitivity and the cognitive processing of words. 130 participants evaluated the pain-relatedness of a total of 600 two-syllabic nouns, and subsequently reported on their own pain sensitivity. The results demonstrate that pain-sensitive people associate words more strongly with pain than less sensitive people. In particular, concrete nouns like ‘syringe’, ‘wound’, ‘knife’, and ‘cactus’ are considered to be more pain-related for those who are more pain-sensitive. These findings dovetail with recent studies suggesting that certain (...)
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  25. The Common Pain of Surrealism and Death: Acetaminophen Reduces Compensatory Affirmation Following Meaning Threats.Daniel Randles, Steven Heine, Santos J. & Nathan - 2013 - Psychological Science 24 (6):966–973.
    The meaning-maintenance model posits that any violation of expectations leads to an affective experience that motivates compensatory affirmation. We explore whether the neural mechanism that responds to meaning threats can be inhibited by acetaminophen, in the same way that acetaminophen inhibits physical pain or the distress caused by social rejection. In two studies, participants received either acetaminophen or a placebo and were provided with either an unsettling experience or a control experience. In Study 1, participants wrote about either their death (...)
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  26. Regarding the Pain of the Others. Do We Need Teleethics?Paweł Bytniewski - 2023 - Filosofija. Sociologija 34 (3).
    I borrow part of the title of my paper from Susan Sontag. In 2003, a year before her death, Susan Sontag published an essay entitled Regarding the Pain of Others. There she takes up the subject of the moral significance of presenting the views of war, violent human death exposed to the lenses of cameras. Her approach to the contemporary issue of mediatisation through the image of the sight of human suffering provokes a question: Do we need teleethics today, the (...)
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  27. Pleasure and Pain in Plato.Clerk Shaw - forthcoming - In Vasilis Politis & Peter Larsen (eds.), The Platonic Mind. London: Routledge.
    This paper proposes a unified reading of pleasure's nature and value in Plato's _Philebus_. It also explains how the proposed reading illuminates certain claims about pleasure across the corpus that initially seem to be in some tension: (i) that pleasure is not the good; (ii) that pleasure is choiceworthy and an aspect of the best human life; and (iii) that pleasure is dangerous and tends to make us into bad people who live badly.
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  28. Suffering narratives of older adults: a phenomenological approach to serious illness, chronic pain, recovery and maternal care.Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey - 2015 - New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
    This book exploits the power of phenomenological methods to access and describe lived moral experiences of pain and suffering for patients, their families and the wider community. Creating new fields of communication for patients, their family members and health professionals in shared decision making processes, this book builds on knowledge about suffering to help and guide correct action in preventing and relieving chronic pain and improving systems of care. It offers a new phenomenology for understanding moral experience in serious illness (...)
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  29. Pain: Modularity and Cognitive Constitution.Błażej Skrzypulec - forthcoming - The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
    Discussions concerning the modularity of the pain system have been focused on questions regarding the cognitive penetrability of pain mechanisms. It has been claimed that phenomena such as placebo analgesia demonstrate that the pain system is cognitively penetrated; therefore, it is not encapsulated from central cognition. However, important arguments have been formulated which aim to show that cognitive penetrability does not in fact entail a lack of modularity of the pain system. This paper offers an alternative way to reject the (...)
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  30. The sound of pain in Sophocles's Philoctetes.Rebecca Steiner Goldner - 2022 - In Jill Gordon (ed.), Hearing, sound, and the auditory in ancient Greece. Indiana University Press.
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  31. Places of pain : Heidegger's reading of Trakl.Claudia Baracchi - 2023 - In Andrew E. Benjamin (ed.), Heidegger and literary studies. Cambridge University Press.
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  32. Telic Perfectionism and the Badness of Pain.Antti Kauppinen - forthcoming - In Mauro Rossi & Christine Tappolet (eds.), Perspectives on Ill-Being. Oxford University Press.
    Why is unpleasant pain bad for us? Evidently because of how it feels. This bit of commonsense is a challenge for well-being perfectionism, since pain doesn’t look anything like failure to fulfill human nature. Here, I sketch a new version of perfectionism that avoids this problem. To explain what is basically good for us, it appeals to the capacities whose functioning defines who we are, or our subjective nature, instead of human nature. I argue that these capacities have a telic (...)
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  33. The misfortune of a world without pain.Newell Dwight Hillis - 1912 - New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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  34. Is mental pain a pain? A systematic review of concepts, definitions and theories in philosophical research.Geindre Charlotte & Chevance Astrid - unknown
    A protocol of a systematic review of philosophical work on mental pain.
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  35. The Practical Education of Poetry: Discovering Pain and Therapeutic Effects in Shelley's “Mutability” and Keats's “Ode on Melancholy”.Jie-Ae Yu - 2023 - The Journal of Aesthetic Education 57 (1):51-73.
    This article discusses the ways in which the practical benefit of poetry, as a source of healing power to reduce distress, is enhanced through incorporating a detailed analysis of literary texts and their sources that relate to the author's depiction of the human predicament and suggestions for liberation from it. This article focuses on two Romantic poems as case studies, Percy Bysshe Shelley's “Mutability” (1816) and John Keats's “Ode on Melancholy” (1820), to highlight an effective way of inspiring students to (...)
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  36. Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings.Jacqueline Clarke, Daniel King & Han Baltussen (eds.) - 2023 - Brill.
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  37. Between Aristotle and Stoicism: Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Varieties of Pain.Cheng Wei - 2023 - In Jacqueline Clarke, Daniel King & Han Baltussen (eds.), Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings. Leiden: Brill. pp. 176-204.
  38. Le pain de chaque jour.Gustave Thibon - 1945 - Monaco,: Éditions du Rocher.
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  39. Conceptualizing Endometriosis Pain Through Metaphors.Julia M. Abraham & V. Rajasekaran - 2023 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 66 (3):478-491.
    ABSTRACT:Biomedical and philosophical traditions postulate the experience of pain either as quantifiable or as sociocultural phenomena. This critical assessment offers a close reading of Lara Parker’s Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics (2020) and Abby Norman’s Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain (2018), analyzing the authors’ use of language as a tool to comprehend and communicate pain. Norman’s and Parker’s memoirs narrate the lived experience of endometriosis, a condition diagnosed (...)
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  40. Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity by Helen Rhee.Costanza Raimondi - 2023 - The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 23 (1):177-178.
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  41. Health, Agency, and the Evolution of Consciousness.Walter Veit - 2022 - Dissertation, The University of Sydney
    This goal of this thesis in the philosophy of nature is to move us closer towards a true biological science of consciousness in which the evolutionary origin, function, and phylogenetic diversity of consciousness are moved from the field’s periphery of investigations to its very centre. Rather than applying theories of consciousness built top-down on the human case to other animals, I argue that we require an evolutionary bottomup approach that begins with the very origins of subjective experience in order to (...)
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  42. Book Review of The Culture of Pain. [REVIEW]Elizabeth Lipton Cobbs - 1994 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 5 (2):164-165.
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  43. Reflections and Perspectives on the Research Fields of Thermal Comfort at Work and Pain.Susanne Becker & Marcel Schweiker - 2023 - In Marcel Schweiker, Joachim Hass, Anna Novokhatko & Roxana Halbleib (eds.), Measurement and Understanding in Science and Humanities: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 161-176.
    Thermal comfort and thermal pain are two independent phenomena studied by different disciplines. The research field of thermal comfort deals with the adaptation of perception of thermal conditions at the workplace. That of thermal pain with sensory and emotional perceptions of painful heat stimuli and its adaptation.
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  44. 6. The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy, and Politics.Lauren Berlant - 2001 - In Elisabeth Bronfen & Misha Kavka (eds.), Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century. Columbia University Press. pp. 126-160.
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  45. Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity.Brad Evans - 2021 - Columbia University Press.
    The very idea of humanity seems to be in crisis. Born in the ashes of devastation after the slaughter of millions, the liberal conception of humanity imagined a suffering victim in need of salvation. Today, this figure appears less and less capable of galvanizing the political imagination. But without it, how are we to respond to the inhumane violence that overwhelms our political and philosophical registers? How can we make sense of the violence that was carried out in the name (...)
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  46. The Heavy-Tailed Valence Hypothesis: The human capacity for vast variation in pleasure/pain and how to test it.Andrés Gómez-Emilsson & Chris Percy - 2023 - Frontiers in Psychology 14:1127221.
    Introduction: Wellbeing policy analysis is often criticized for requiring a cardinal interpretation of measurement scales, such as ranking happiness on an integer scale from 0-10. The commonly-used scales also implicitly constrain the human capacity for experience, typically that our most intense experiences can only be at most ten times more intense than our mildest experiences. This paper presents the alternative “heavy-tailed valence” (HTV) hypothesis: the notion that the accessible human capacity for emotional experiences of pleasure and pain spans a minimum (...)
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  47. When, How, and Why Did “Pain” Become Subjective?Charles Djordjevic - 2023 - Philosophy of Medicine 4 (1).
    The pain-assessment literature often claims that pain is subjective. However, the meaning and implications of this claim are left to the reader’s imagination. This paper attempts to make sense of the claim and its problems from the history and philosophy of science perspective. It examines the work of Henry Beecher, the first person to operationalize “pain” in terms of subjective measurements. First, I reconstruct Beecher’s operationalization of “pain.” Next, I argue this operationalization fails. Third, I salvage Beecher’s insights by repositioning (...)
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  48. Olfactory Virtual Reality (OVR) for Wellbeing and Reduction of Stress, Anxiety and Pain.David Tomasi - 2021 - Journal of Medical Research and Health Sciences 4 (3).
    Olfactory Virtual Reality (OVR) for Wellbeing and Reduction of Stress, Anxiety and Pain - Journal of Medical Research and Health Sciences.
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  49. Can we turn people into pain pumps?: On the Rationality of Future Bias and Strong Risk Aversion.David Braddon-Mitchell, Andrew J. Latham & Kristie Miller - forthcoming - Journal of Moral Philosophy:1-32.
    Future-bias is the preference, all else being equal, for negatively valenced events be located in the past rather than the future, and positively valenced ones to be located in the future rather than the past. Strong risk aversion is the preference to pay some cost to mitigate the badness of the worst outcome. People who are both strongly risk averse and future-biased can face a series of choices that will guarantee them more pain, for no compensating benefit: they will be (...)
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  50. The ‘Optimistic Cruelty’ of Hayek’s Market Order: Neoliberalism, Pain and Social Selection.Carla Ibled - 2023 - Theory, Culture and Society 40 (3):81-101.
    This article argues that cruelty, as a willingness to see or orchestrate the suffering of others, is not an unfortunate side-effect of neoliberal theories put into practice but is constitutive of the neoliberal project from its theoretical inception. Drawing on Lisa Duggan’s concept of ‘optimistic cruelty’ and treating the canonical texts of neoliberal economic theory as literary artefacts, the article develops this argument through a close reading of one of the central architects of the neoliberal project, the philosopher and economist (...)
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