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Perspectives on Human Suffering

By Jeff Malpas , Norelle Lickiss (auth.) , Norelle Lickiss (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2012
ISBN
978-94-007-2794-6, 978-94-007-2795-3
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-2795-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2553939 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
368\364
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-10-27 10:42:15
generalgeneral; Psychologygeneral; Quality of Life Research; Biomedicine genPhilosophy of Medicine; Medicine/Public Health

Description

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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