An important work in the systematic study of suffering consists in collecting facts, ideas, documents, and in classifying them methodically for convenient retrieval and handling. Lists as exhaustive as possible should be set up concerning kinds of suffering,  people or animals who suffer, causes of suffering, people and organizations who cause suffering, solutions or strategies relative to suffering, people and organizations who contribute to stop or prevent excessive suffering, documents interesting the systematic study of suffering, and many other topics.  All those inventories, most of them without precedent, are needed to give a wider and more precise mapping of the algoscientific field. This should provide better information on what is occurring and what should be done. It should make navigation easier through the abundance, the vastitude and the complexity of the subject.  Each fact, each idea, each document has its importance.  The Cartesian method of exhaustive enumerations has proven to be very profitable in many modern disciplines, and algoscience, in its turn, should dare to undertake inventories that could involve millions of elements.

80/70/05- OUTLINE FOR AN ALGOSCIENCE

This document presents a continuously updated outline that could be used as a framework for creating a discipline or field of study which is tentatively called algoscience, and which would consist in a body of theoretical and practical knowledge concerning suffering.

The algoscientific field may be organized in six main parts, as follows.

20- FUNDAMENTAL ALGOSCIENCE

40- ALGOGENIC ALGOSCIENCE

60- ANTALGIC ALGOSCIENCE

80- METHODOLOGICAL ALGOSCIENCE

 1- SECTORS

20/72/75/xx- Health problems — Classification of illnesses, of psychological problems… Sexual problems, love problems, suicide, addiction (drug, tobacco, alcohol), euthanasia, bereavement, accidents, chronic pain, AIDS… Lack of health services, of pharmacological drugs, of personal hygiene… Malnutrition, faulty diets…

20/72/75/xx- Social problems — Poverty, unemployment, illness, disability, toxicomania or addiction, homelessness, housing, illiteracy, prostitution, criminality, abortion, disempowerment, acculturation, family planning, budgeting, child abuse, battered women, old age, overpopulation, displacement of refugees, dicrimination (race, âge, sexe, orientation sexuelle, religion, statut social, handicap, maladie...), street gangs, school drop-out, mortalité infantile…

20/72/75/xx- Economic problems — Lack of production or distribution of goods and services, more specifically of that part of them without which there would be more suffering (be it food, water, fuel, housing, clothing, industrial supplies, educational services, telecommunications, transportation, health services, political management, etc.). Abusive appropriations, abusive exploitation, profiteering, slavery… Underdevelopment. Lack of social security, of private insurance… Hunger, water-related problems,

20/72/75/xx- Armed conflict — Army, military, civil war, war

20/72/75/xx- Crimes and human rights violation

20/72/75/xx- Disasters, accidents, fire, apocalypse or end of the world,

20/72/75/xx- Animal suffering —

20/72/75/xx- Environmental problems —

20/72/75/xx- Death-related problems (fear of death, suicide, bereavement, euthanasia, homicide…)

20/72/75/xx- Spiritual problems. Sin. Fear of damnation. Aspiration to salvation.

20/72/75/95/09- Combined sets of suffering — The set of all sufferings. Multicategorical sets.

To complete this section, here are various other notes:

1) From Encyclopedia of World Problems, see H945 Metapathology and PA7107 Unpleasantness, and many other entries:
alienation, anomie, anhedonia, loss of zest in life, meaninglessness, inability to enjoy, indifference, boredom, ennui, worthlessness of life, existential vacuum, noogenic neurosis, philosophical crisis, apathy, resignation, fatalism, valuelessness, desacralization of life, spiritual illnesses and crises, axiological depression, death wishes, sense of being useless or unwanted, hopelessness, despair, anguish, cynicism, aimlessness...,sexual frustration, sexual problems, old age problems, burn-out, ugliness, déchéance, inertia, tiredness, spleen, ignorance, illetteracy, loneliness,  religious dependency, superstition, fear of crime, of illness, of suffering, of pain, of death, of powerlessness, of painful death, of horrible death, of premature death, fear of tomorow, of old age want, fear of boss, of government, of proprietary, unrest, anguish, insecurity, shyness, lack of self-confidence, lack of confidence in others, social tension, psychological tension, ostracism, fanatics, lack of independence, of autonomy, (from old age, from illness, from a chronic condition, from handicap...), dependency to comfort, emotional dependence to a closed group (family, gang, sect, work place…), coward, irresponsible, omission to help, lack of courage, civil disobedience, justified infraction, lack of comfort, lack of longevity, lack of superiority, of success, of dominance, of aggression, of competence, lack of social approbation, of acknowledgement, of good reputation, of higher social rank, of others' esteem, of respect, of love, lack of posterity lack of pleasure, of happiness, of joy, of riches, of gratification, lack of peak experience, of sublime, of spiritual realization, lack of belonging, lack of roots, lack of self-realization, of amelioration, of going upward, of getting, better off, lack of contributing to society, to family, etc., lack of action, of exercise, of doing, unrooting, rejection, being not desired, being cheated, conditioned, exploited, manipulated, culpability, remorse, shame, love peine, heartbreak, separation, loss of affection, treason…, loss of work, status, money, disarray, sadness, discontent, lack of love for others, abrutissement, avilissement,