Author : Jeff Malpas
Release : 2012-04-23
Genre : Medical
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 95X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Perspectives on Human Suffering by : Jeff Malpas
Download or read book Perspectives on Human Suffering written by Jeff Malpas. This book was released on 2012-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.