| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 365 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Human Suffering / Jeff Malpas and Norelle Lickiss -- Part 1. Philosophical considerations -- Suffering, Compassion, and the Possibility of a Humane Politics / Jeff Malpas -- Pathei Mathos: The Political-Cognitive Value of Suffering / Gaetano Chiurazzi -- Economies of Suffering: Kierkegaard and Levinas / Andrew Benjamin and Samuel Cuff Snow -- The Other Thing About Suffering / Lucy Tatman -- 'Giving the World a More Human Face'-Human Suffering in African Thought and Philosophy / Thaddeus Metz -- Suffering as Substantive and Subjective: Slavoj Žižek, Hannah Arendt and the Body's Pain / Michael Mack -- Suffering and Forgiveness: An Heroic Journey / Andrew Brennan and Norva Y.S. Lo |
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Part 2. Humanities Approaches -- The Suffering of Job: He is Every Person and No-One / Peta Jones Pellach -- The Meaning and the Experience of Suffering: A Historian's Perspective / Nicholas Tarling -- Jewish Responses to Suffering / Paul Turner -- Suffering and Ancient Therapy: Plato to Cicero / Dougal Blyth -- Ancient Greek Responses to Suffering: Thinking with Philoctetes / Edith Hall -- Historicizing Suffering / Wayne Hudson -- The Politics of Suffering: Aboriginal Health in Contemporary Australia / Peter Sutton |
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Part 3. Legal, medical and therapeutic contexts -- Some Aspects of Human Suffering and the Criminal Law / Guy Green -- Suffering: A Perspective From Law / Norchaya Talib -- To Suffer With: The Poetry of Compassion / Jack Coulehan -- On Facing Human Suffering / Norelle Lickiss -- Suffering Seeks a Voice / Frank Brennan -- Technological Efficiency, Human Dignity, and the Meaning of Suffering / Daryl Pullman -- Suffering and the Sleeplessness of Clinicians / Matthew Hamilton and Grant Gillett -- The Selfsame Well: Human Suffering in Grief and Bereavement / Elizabeth A. Lobb -- Reflections on Compassion, Suffering and Occupational Stress / Mary L.S. Vachon -- Mental Suffering and the Brain: Insights from Neurology and Literature / Ross Mellick |
| Summary |
This volume brings together a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on a topic of central importance, but which has otherwise tended to be approached from within just one or another disciplinary framework. Most of the essays contained here incorporate some degree of interdisciplinarity in their own approach, but the volume nevertheless divides into three main sections: Philosophical considerations; Humanities approaches; Legal, medical, and therapeutic contexts. The volume includes essays by philosophers, medical practitioners and researchers, historians, lawyers, literary, Classical, and Judaic scholars. The essays are united by a common concern with the question of the human character of suffering, and the demands that suffering, and the recognition of suffering, make upon us |
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Philosophy (General) |
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Medicine |
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medicine -- Philosophy |
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Quality of Life |
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Law |
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Philosophy |
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Philosophy of Medicine |
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Medicine/Public Health, general |
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Quality of Life Research |
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Biomedicine general |
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Law, general |
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Psychology, general |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Suffering.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Suffering
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Malpas, Jeff.
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Lickiss, Norelle.
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| ISBN |
9789400727953 |
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940072795X |
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