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  • Department Three: Operations Related to a Discipline Specialized in the Study of Suffering

    Last update: 2025-03-10 Preparatory notes for this part: The global control of excessive suffering requires specialized knowledge that can only be found in a theoretical and practical discipline expressly devoted to the phenomenon of suffering itself. The following chapters deal with: Documentation, bib, info, referral, Methodology, epistemology, KM, AI, see https://robertdaoust.org/syst-study/classif.html#table Terminology Common terms Classifications,…

  • – Environmental Science

    Last update: 2024-11-09 Preparatory notes for this chapter: Might include: Climate, pollution, etc. See 15 Biggest Environmental Problems of 2023 See Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’

  • Neuroscience

    Last update: 2024-11-09 Preparatory notes for this chapter: Might include: Consciousness research, neurologic basis of suffering

  • – Education

    Last update: 2024-11-09 Preparatory notes for this chapter: See https://pinboard.in/u:RobertDaoust/t:education/ See for instance Suffering in education and its effective solution, Understanding Suffering in Schools – Shining a Light on the Dark Places of Education …

  • Department One: Operations Related to Suffering-Focused Initiatives

    Last update: 2025-03-08 The problem of suffering is currently being tackled more directly and “as a whole” thanks to several recent initiatives dealing specifically with it. Let’s keep an eye on what these new movements could contribute to the global control of excessive suffering. Department One: Chapters and Their Sections World Governance Approaches to Suffering…

  • – Media

    Last update: 2024-11-09 Preparatory notes for this chapter: Might include: Suffering reported in the media Distant suffering   – See for instance Distant Suffering — Morality, Media and Politics and https://pinboard.in/u:RobertDaoust/t:distant%252fsuffering/ See Media overload is hurting our mental health. Here are ways to manage headline stress …

  • – Arts and Literature

    Last update: 2024-11-09 Preparatory notes for this chapter: Might include: Suffering as a topic of art & literature works Suffering as a motivation to do art & literature Art as therapy See Life is Pain: An Exploration of Suffering in Art …

  • – Animal Welfare

    Last update: 2024-11-09 Preparatory notes for this chapter: Might include: Animal welfare Animal rights See also about animals in our “Department 1: Operations Related to Suffering-Focused Initiatives”. A Google search with “site:openphilanthropy.org suffering” yields 197 results: look at them and make a report for us here.

  • – Healthcare

    Last update: 2024-11-09 Preparatory notes for this chapter: Might include: Medicine Pharmacology Pain management and International Association for the Study of Pain Palliative care See also Psychology, psychotherapy etc. Public health https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health

  • – Psychology

    Last update: 2024-11-09 Preparatory notes for this chapter: Might include: Psychotherapy (see also Healthcare) Positive psychology, happiness, pleasure, positive aspects of suffering Compassion Death, suicide Sexology, gender, sexual mutilation, sexual frustration Intimate relationship, couple, love, hate …