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.-.