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).
Wait till you find out the likely cause of sharp, stabbing chest pain when all your heart tests keep coming back normal. âThis type of stabbing, ripping chest pain with normal tests is seen with acute pericarditis, especially in younger people,â says Dr. Sameer Sayeed, a cardiologist at ColumbiaDoctors of Somers, NY.