The concept is used in fields such as medicine, nursing, health psychology, occupational therapy and physiotherapy as well as sociology, and particularly in more specialist fields such as psychiatry, health psychology, family therapy, chiropractic, clinical social work, and clinical psychology.

We thought that we could appeal to some, if not all, of the generals Buddhists themselves who control our country to join us in trying to right the many ills befalling Burma.

And then they had to straighten out my nose, and they took these rods and shoved them up my nose and went up through my brains and felt like it was coming out the top of my head, and everybody said that it should have killed me, but it didn't, because I guess I have a high tolerance for pain.

His vision of humanitarian action was one in which relief was not only an end in itself the traditional Red Cross view that humanitarians palliate the worst effects of war and natural disaster but also a means for righting wrongs.