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Social suffering

Title
Social suffering / edited by Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das, and Margaret Lock.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Kleinman, Arthur.
  • Das, Veena.
  • Lock, Margaret M.
Description
xxvii, 404 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Suffering > Social aspects
  • Violence
  • Power (Social sciences)
  • Victims
  • Social medicine
  • Human body > Social aspects
Note
  • Some of the essays originally appeared in the journal Dædalus, Winter 1996, v. 125, no. 1.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 --
  • 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.
ISBN
  • 0520209931 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520209958 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780520209954 (pbk.)
LCCN
97000201
OCLC
ocm36284185
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries