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Suffering, Medicine, and What Is Pointless

Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 352 - 365
Published: Jan 1, 2019
Abstract
Beginning with Eric Cassell’s much-cited definition of suffering, this essay engages with Scott Samuelson’s Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering (2018). How each of Samuelson’s seven ways is relevant to health care and bioethics is suggested through various examples. The discussion underscores the crucial choice for health-care professionals between being an expert technician who provides treatment or being a healer, in an expansive...
Paper Details
Title
Suffering, Medicine, and What Is Pointless
Published Date
Jan 1, 2019
Volume
62
Issue
2
Pages
352 - 365
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