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Perspectives on Human Suffering
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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 Žižek, 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.-.

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