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Suffering a sociological introduction

* Provides a convincing exploration of a central theme of our times: human suffering. The author writes well; his remarks on the brute fact of suffering are very powerfully made. * There are no real rivals to this book, since until its publication there had been no really systematic sociological theorisation of pain and suffering.
Print Book, English, 2004
Blackwells, Cambridge, 2004
9780745631974, 0745631975
1026420583
Preface and Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction: Suffering, Social Science and the Challenge to Sociology.   2 What is Suffering? 3 Our Classical Heritage. 4 Social Suffering: A Critical Appraisal. 5 The Problem of Suffering and our Feeling for Humanity. 6 Mediatized Suffering: Prospects for the Internationalisation of Conscience. 7 Towards a Critical Sociology of Suffering. References. Index.