| Description |
xxvii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das and Margaret Lock -- The Appeal of Experience; The Dismay of Images: Cultural Appropriations of Suffering in Our Times / Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman -- About Suffering: Voice, Genre, and Moral Community / David B. Morris -- The Alarmed Vision: Social Suffering and Holocaust Atrocity / Lawrence L. Langer -- Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain / Veena Das -- Comments on Veena Das's Essay "Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain" / Stanley Cavell -- Political Widowhood in South Africa: The Embodiment of Ambiguity / Mamphela Ramphele -- The Pane of Sorrow: Public Uses of Personal Grief in Modern China / Vera Schwarcz -- Destructive Will and Ideological Holocaust: Maoism as a Source of Social Suffering in China / Tu Wei-Ming -- Unmasking Suffering's Masks: Reflections on Old and New Memories of Nazi Medicine / Anne Harrington |
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Displacing Suffering: The Reconstruction of Death in North America and Japan / Margaret Lock -- Suffering and the Origins of Traumatic Memory / Allan Young -- On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below / Paul Farmer -- On Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment / Talal Asad -- Suffering Nation and Alienation / E. Valentine Daniel -- Religions, Society, and Suffering / J. W. Bowker |
| Summary |
This book takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture--the whole assemblage of human problems that result from what political, economic, and institutional power does to people--and also human responses to social problems as they are influenced by those forms of power. In the same way that the notion of social suffering breaks down boundaries between specific scholarly disciplines, this cross-disciplinary investigation allows us to see the twentieth century in a new frame, with new emphases. Anthropologists, historians, literary theorists, social medicine experts, and scholars engaged in the study of religion join together to investigate the cultural representations, collective experiences, and professional and popular appropriations of human suffering in the world today. These authors contest traditional research and policy approaches. Recognizing that neither the cultural resources of tradition nor those of modernity's various programs seem adequate to cope with social suffering in our times, they base their distinctive vision on the understanding that moral, political, and medical issues cannot be kept separate |
| Notes |
Some of essays originally appeared in the journal Dædalus, Winter 1996, v. 125, no. 1 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Social medicine.
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Suffering -- Social aspects.
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Victims.
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Violence.
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| Author |
Das, Veena.
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Kleinman, Arthur.
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Lock, Margaret M.
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| LC no. |
97000201 |
| ISBN |
0520209931 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0520209958 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780520209954 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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