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 Žižek, 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