Questioning the Boundary Between Pain and Suffering
Medical focus on objective disease alone fails to relieve patients' pain and suffering; pain and suffering interact circularly and require unified attention.
Pathemata by Maggie Nelson review a writer's attempt to describe chronic pain
In The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry articulates that painâs resistance to language not only makes sharing experiences of suffering difficult but also actively destroys the very language we use to convey them.