Perspectives on Human Suffering

1. Introduction: Human Suffering - Jeff Malpas and Norelle Lickiss I. Philosophical Considerations 2. Suffering and Forgiveness: An Heroic Journey - Andrew Brennan and Norva Lo 3. Levinas on Suffering - Andrew Benjamin 4. The Other Thing About Suffering - Lucy Tatman 5. Suffering, Compassion, and the Possibility of a Humane Politics - Jeff Malpas 6. 'Pathei Mathos': The Cognitive Value of Suffering - Gaetano Chiurazzi 7. 'Giving the World a More Human Face' - Human Suffering in African Thought and Philosophy - Thaddeus Metz 8. Suffering as Substantive and Subjective: Slavoj Zizek, Hannah Arendt, and the Body's Pain - Michael Mack II. Humanities Approaches 9. The Suffering of Job: He is Every Person and No-one - Peta Pellach 10. The Meaning of Suffering: A Historian's View - Nicholas Tarling 11. Jewish Responses to Suffering - Paul Turner 12. Suffering and Ancient Therapy from Plato to Cicero - Dougal Blyth 13. Thinking with Philoctetes - Edith Hall 14. Historicizing Suffering - Wayne Hudson 15. The Politics of Suffering - Peter Sutton III. Legal, Medical and Therapeutic Contexts 16. Some Aspects of Human Suffering and the Criminal Law - Sir Guy Green 17. Suffering and the Law: Its Meaning and Definition - Norchaya Talib 18. To Suffer with: The Poetry of Compassion - Jack Coulehan 19. Facing up to Suffering - Norelle Lickiss 20. Suffering Seeks a Voice - Frank Brennan 21. Dignity, Pain and Suffering - Daryl Pullman 22. Suffering and the Sleeplessness of Clinicians - Matthew Hamilton and Grant Gillett 23. The Selfsame Well: Human Suffering in Grief and Bereavement - Elizabeth A Lobb 24. Reflections on Compassion, Suffering and Occupational Stress - Mary Vachon 25. Insights from Neuroscience and Literature into Pain and Mental Suffering - Ross Mellick