Contrributes an interdisciplinary breadth of the essays

Is the only edited collection that takes human suffering as its focus

Follows on, both in terms of concepts and format, an already successful work

Includes supplementary material: [...]

1. Introduction: Human Suffering ¿ Jeff Malpas and Norelle LickissI. Philosophical Considerations2. Suffering and Forgiveness: An Heroic Journey ¿ Andrew Brennan and Norva Lo3. Levinas on Suffering ¿ Andrew Benjamin4. The Other Thing About Suffering ¿ Lucy Tatman5. 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 Metz8. Suffering as Substantive and Subjective: Slavoj Žižek, Hannah Arendt, and the Body¿s Pain ¿ Michael MackII. Humanities Approaches 9. The Suffering of Job: He is Every Person and No-one ¿ Peta Pellach10. The Meaning of Suffering: A Historian¿s View ¿ Nicholas Tarling11. Jewish Responses to Suffering ¿ Paul Turner12. Suffering and Ancient Therapy from Plato to Cicero ¿ Dougal Blyth13. Thinking with Philoctetes ¿ Edith Hall14. Historicizing Suffering ¿ Wayne Hudson15. The Politics of Suffering ¿ Peter SuttonIII. Legal, Medical and Therapeutic Contexts16. Some Aspects of Human Suffering and the Criminal Law ¿ Sir Guy Green17. Suffering and the Law: Its Meaning and Definition ¿ Norchaya Talib18. To Suffer with: The Poetry of Compassion ¿ Jack Coulehan 19. Facing up to Suffering ¿ Norelle Lickiss 20. Suffering Seeks a Voice ¿ Frank Brennan21. Dignity, Pain and Suffering ¿ Daryl Pullman22. 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