Excerpt from jacket] Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hardhitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous world in which good people face impossible choices and in which routines designed to normalize experience have the unintended...

In A Confession, a memoir of his philosophical midlife crisis, Tolstoy recounts falling into despair after coming to believe that life, and for matter all human is meaningless absurd. Although Tolstoy's account the origin phenomenology crisis widely regarded as illuminating, response namely, embracing religious tradition he had previously dismissed “irrational,” “incomprehensible,” “mingled wit...

An infinity of gods collectively select a random natural number by each removing a finite number of balls from an urn in a reverse supertask. It is discussed whether this is an absurdity that indicates the impossibility of reverse supertasks.

Background: Suicide is a multidimensional phenomenon and examining each of its dimensions can be useful in controlling this destructive social phenomenon. As such, this study aimed to investigate meaningless and absurd experiences in people who attempted suicide in Iran. Methods: The present study was conducted using a qualitative-descriptive phenomenology. The participants were selected using...