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Perspectives on Human Suffering

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Human Suffering
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    Chapter 2 Suffering, Compassion, and the Possibility of a Humane Politics
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    Chapter 3 Pathei Mathos: The Political-Cognitive Value of Suffering
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    Chapter 4 Economies of Suffering: Kierkegaard and Levinas
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    Chapter 5 The Other Thing About Suffering
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    Chapter 6 ‘Giving the World a More Human Face’—Human Suffering in African Thought and Philosophy
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    Chapter 7 Suffering as Substantive and Subjective: Slavoj Žižek, Hannah Arendt and the Body’s Pain
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    Chapter 8 Suffering and Forgiveness: An Heroic Journey
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    Chapter 9 The Suffering of Job: He is Every Person and No-One
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    Chapter 10 The Meaning and the Experience of Suffering: A Historian’s Perspective
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    Chapter 11 Jewish Responses to Suffering
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    Chapter 12 Suffering and Ancient Therapy: Plato to Cicero
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    Chapter 13 Ancient Greek Responses to Suffering: Thinking with Philoctetes
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    Chapter 14 Historicizing Suffering
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    Chapter 15 The Politics of Suffering: Aboriginal Health in Contemporary Australia
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    Chapter 16 Some Aspects of Human Suffering and the Criminal Law
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    Chapter 17 Suffering: A Perspective From Law
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    Chapter 18 To Suffer With: The Poetry of Compassion
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    Chapter 19 On Facing Human Suffering
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    Chapter 20 Suffering Seeks a Voice
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    Chapter 21 Technological Efficiency, Human Dignity, and the Meaning of Suffering
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    Chapter 22 Suffering and the Sleeplessness of Clinicians
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    Chapter 23 The Selfsame Well: Human Suffering in Grief and Bereavement
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    Chapter 24 Reflections on Compassion, Suffering and Occupational Stress
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    Chapter 25 Mental Suffering and the Brain: Insights from Neurology and Literature
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Title
Perspectives on Human Suffering
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2795-3
ISBNs
978-9-40-072794-6, 978-9-40-072795-3, 978-9-40-079341-5
Authors

Malpas, Jeff, Lickiss, Norelle

Editors

Jeff Malpas, Norelle Lickiss

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Mexico 1 3%
United States 1 3%
South Africa 1 3%
Unknown 33 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 19%
Other 6 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 17%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Other 7 19%
Unknown 6 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 7 19%
Social Sciences 6 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 11%
Philosophy 3 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 8%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 8 22%