Social death. Social death is the condition of people not accepted as fully human by wider society. Used by sociologists like Zygmunt Bauman and historians of slavery and the Holocaust to describe the part played by governmental and social segregation in that process. Examples of social death are:
Chronic pericarditis often causes tiredness, coughing, and shortness of breath. Chest pain often is absent in this type of pericarditis. Severe cases of chronic pericarditis can lead to swelling in the stomach and legs and hypotension (low blood pressure).
Pericarditis is a swelling of the pericardium, a sack-like tissue that contains the heart. Pericarditis can have a number of causes, including bacterial or viral infection, parasites or fungus. Most commonly, pericarditis is due to a virus. In general, pericarditis will disappear on its own without treatment. Symptoms of pericarditis include palpitations, a dry cough and pain in the shoulder.