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World Suffering and Quality of Life

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 56)

Editors: Anderson, Ronald E.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9670-5

ISBN: 978-94-017-9669-9

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jan 7, 2014

1 - 10 of 32 Chapters

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Implications of World Suffering for Human Progress

Anderson, Ronald E.

Pages: 3 –29

[After reviewing definitions of suffering, this chapter offers a framework and typology of suffering that can accommodate the diversity of thought and research on suffering. Estimates of suffering prevalence follow. The remainder of the chapter summarizes the content of each of the first four...
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Suffering in Silence? The Silencing of Sexual Violence Against Men in War Torn Countries

Féron, Élise

Pages: 31 –44

[The suffering induced by sexual violence against men and boys in conflict zones has not yet been the focus of many studies, and can be explained by several reasons. Research on sexual violence during conflicts focuses mainly on girls and women, who make up the great majority of victims of such...
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Social Suffering and Critical Humanitarianism

Wilkinson, Iain

Pages: 45 –54

[Research and writing on social suffering is set to fashion social science as a humanitarian endeavor. Here practitioners are made to examine relative conceptions and experiences of human rights. They are also heavily involved in debates over the moral practices, social policies and forms of...
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Compassion, Cruelty, and Human Rights

Sznaider, Natan

Pages: 55 –64

[The language of human rights provides a framework to begin to understand why pictures of strangers being beaten and tortured concern us. Cruelty, for instance, is understood as the infliction of unwarranted suffering. Compassion is an organized, public response to wrongdoing, as in human rights...
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Making Sense of Suffering: Insights from Buddhism and Critical Social Science

Flores, Ruben

Pages: 65 –73

[In order to enrich our analytical framework for the study and alleviation of suffering, this chapter argues that there are good reasons to encourage a dialogue between Buddhism and critical social science (CSS). Although both traditions hold the reduction of suffering as fundamental, they...
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Distant Suffering and the Mediation of Humanitarian Disaster

von Engelhardt, Johannes; Jansz, Jeroen

Pages: 75 –87

[Most of today’s humanitarian catastrophes are taking place in countries of the so-called Global South. At the same time, countries in that part of the world are often among those least likely to be visited by those living in the West. In this configuration, what most of Western audiences know...
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Suffering and Identity: “Difficult Patients” in Hospice Care

Cain, Cindy L.

Pages: 91 –100

[Hospice care takes a variety of forms across the world, though the philosophy of “being there” remains similar across locations. Within the hospice approach, the suffering of the declining person is often not isolated to that single individual. Family members, paid care staff, and other...
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Healing Suffering: The Evolution of Caring Practices

Johnston, Nancy E.

Pages: 101 –113

[Suffering raises deep and disquieting questions about the very meaning of our existence. Most frequently addressed in the literature at the level of individual identity, suffering is also social. It can be found in oppressive political structures. Suffering involves alienation, introduces...
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Meaning in Bereavement

Neimeyer, Robert A.

Pages: 115 –124

[Viewing suffering following the death of a loved one from a meaning systems perspective, this chapter reviews research that links secular and spiritual struggles to find meaning in loss to prolonged and preoccupying grief, and successful sense making and benefit finding to human resilience....
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Coping with the Suffering of Ambiguous Loss

Boss, Pauline

Pages: 125 –134

[This chapter addresses a particular kind of suffering—that of having a family member go physically missing. There is no official proof of being either dead or alive. Remaining family members are immobilized by the confusion, but many live a quality life despite the pain of no closure. The goal...

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