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  2. The Sickness unto Death - Wikipedia

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    The Sickness unto Death (Danish: Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. A work of Christian existentialism , the book is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair , which he equates with the Christian concept of sin , which he terms "the sin of despair".

  3. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    “The event or death may have been related to the underlying disease being treated, may have been caused by some other product being used at the same time, or may have occurred for other reasons.” The Times story also cited a buprenorphine study by researchers in Sweden that looked at “100 autopsies where buprenorphine had been detected.”

  4. Palliative care - Wikipedia

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    Palliative care (derived from the Latin root palliare, meaning "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. [1]

  5. Sociology of health and illness - Wikipedia

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    This field of research acts as a broad school overlapping with areas like the sociology of medicine, sociology of the body, sociology of disease [7] to wider sociologies like that of the family or education as they contribute insights from their distinct focuses on the life-course of health and wellness. [8]

  6. Living longer, not healthier: Study finds periods of poor ...

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    A study led by Mayo Clinic found a “widening gap between lifespan and healthspan" among 183 countries. The lead researcher and another doctor discuss the drivers of poor health late in life.

  7. U.S. life expectancy rose significantly last year, hitting ...

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    The Summary. U.S. life expectancy jumped to 78.4 years last year, the highest it has been since 2019, before the pandemic. A decline in Covid deaths was a primary factor in the upward trend.

  8. Arthur Kleinman - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps Kleinman's most influential work is Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture (1980), followed by The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition (1988) and Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China (1986).

  9. The 'widowhood effect': How losing a spouse can affect your ...

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    The death of a partner can take a serious toll on the surviving spouse's well-being. Experts suggest ways people can protect their health. The 'widowhood effect': How losing a spouse can affect ...