symptoms that can cause enormous misery for cancer patients, undermining quality of life and contributing to weakness, anorexia and nutritional problems.1 Evidence-based recommendations for the management of treatment-induced emesis are available, but the management of nausea arising as a consequence of the disease itself is less well researched. This article summarises palliative care guidelin...

Next began the muskegs, which almost entirely stood under water; these we had to cross for miles; think with what misery, every step up to our knees. . . . The whole of this land of the Lapps was mostly muskeg, here called stygx. A priest could never so describe hell, because it is no more horrible. Never have poets been able to picture the Styx so foul, since that is no fouler.—CAROLUS LINNAEU...

If you walk into any branch of Waterstones, near the biography section there is a section called “Lost Lives”. This is the result of the increasing numbers of memoirs dealing with various types of abuse in childhood and various degrees of subsequent transcendence. The genre has also less charitably been dubbed “Misery Lit”, and described as “the book world’s biggest boom sector.” I am happy to ...

Transformational evaluation implies a decolonization process focused on relieving the misery and suffering of oppressed. To inform such reorientation, this article describes challenges social transformation; probes links between capitalism, slavery racism; takes stock post-colonial development order; examines legacy occupation; recommends new policy directions inspired by indigenous evaluation.

We examined emotional responding to music after mood induction. On each trial, listeners heard a 30-s music excerpt and rated how much they liked it, whether it sounded happy or sad, and how familiar it was. When the excerpts sounded unambiguously happy or sad (Experiment 1), the typical preference for happy-sounding music was eliminated after inducing a sad mood. When the excerpts sounded ambi...