HUMANITY
Human Suffering
Under the microscope
Dr. Gabriella Kőrösi
When you hear the word human suffering what is the picture you visualize in your mind?
I see children. Children without food, without a home, children who lost their parents, and children who have nothing to eat. I see people all over the world who lost everything and hanging onto their life with a thread of hope for some better future. I see people fleeing countries where there is war. I see refugees in the camp. I see people in pain, unimaginable pain.
Noelia Bueno-Gómez (2017) in her paper “Conceptualizing suffering and pain” discusses definitions of the phenomena. Noelia discusses pain from two perspectives the body and the mind. Furthermore, she asserts that pain has multiple dimensions including bodily, psychological, and sociocultural. Noelia argues that when we look at people and their pain there is a psychophysical view is needed to understand what the concept entails.
“A definition of pain cannot be based only on the neurological understanding of it but has to incorporate other relevant factors such as cognitive awareness, interpretation, behavioral dispositions, as well as cultural and educational factors beyond the medical sphere.” Noelia Bueno-Gómez (2017)
