Malpas, Jeff
Perspectives on Human Suffering
1. Introduction: Human Suffering
Jeff Malpas, Norelle Lickiss
2. Suffering, Compassion, and the Possibility of a Humane Politics
Jeff Malpas
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Gaetano Chiurazzi
4. Economies of Suffering: Kierkegaard and Levinas
Andrew Benjamin, Samuel Cuff Snow
5. The Other Thing About Suffering
Lucy Tatman
6. ‘Giving the World a More Human Face’—Human Suffering in African Thought and Philosophy
Thaddeus Metz
7. Suffering as Substantive and Subjective: Slavoj Žižek, Hannah Arendt and the Body’s Pain
Michael Mack
8. Suffering and Forgiveness: An Heroic Journey
Andrew Brennan, Norva Y. S. Lo
9. The Suffering of Job: He is Every Person and No-One
Peta Jones Pellach
10. The Meaning and the Experience of Suffering: A Historian’s Perspective
Nicholas Tarling
11. Jewish Responses to Suffering
Paul Turner
12. Suffering and Ancient Therapy: Plato to Cicero
Dougal Blyth
13. Ancient Greek Responses to Suffering: Thinking with Philoctetes
Edith Hall
14. Historicizing Suffering
Wayne Hudson
15. The Politics of Suffering: Aboriginal Health in Contemporary Australia
Peter Sutton
16. Some Aspects of Human Suffering and the Criminal Law
Guy Green
17. Suffering: A Perspective From Law
Norchaya Talib
18. To Suffer With: The Poetry of Compassion
Jack Coulehan
19. On Facing Human Suffering
Norelle Lickiss
20. Suffering Seeks a Voice
Frank Brennan
21. Technological Efficiency, Human Dignity, and the Meaning of Suffering
Daryl Pullman
22. Suffering and the Sleeplessness of Clinicians
Matthew Hamilton, Grant Gillett
23. The Selfsame Well: Human Suffering in Grief and Bereavement
Elizabeth A. Lobb
24. Reflections on Compassion, Suffering and Occupational Stress
Mary L. S. Vachon
25. Mental Suffering and the Brain: Insights from Neurology and Literature
Ross Mellick
Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Medicine, Medicine/Public Health, general, Quality of Life Research, Biomedicine general, Law, general, Psychology, general
- Author(s)
- Malpas, Jeff
- Lickiss, Norelle
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2012
- Page amount
- 1 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9789400727953