Perspectives On Human Suffering

Author : Jeff Malpas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940072795X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Human Suffering written by Jeff Malpas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on a topic of central importance, but which has otherwise tended to be approached from within just one or another disciplinary framework. Most of the essays contained here incorporate some degree of interdisciplinarity in their own approach, but the volume nevertheless divides into three main sections: Philosophical considerations; Humanities approaches; Legal, medical, and therapeutic contexts. The volume includes essays by philosophers, medical practitioners and researchers, historians, lawyers, literary, Classical, and Judaic scholars. The essays are united by a common concern with the question of the human character of suffering, and the demands that suffering, and the recognition of suffering, make upon us.

Author : Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520075122
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pain as Human Experience written by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-11-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With case studies drawn from anthropological investigations of chronic pain sufferers and pain clinics in the northeastern United States, the authors attempt to invent new ways of writing about this language-resistant human experience. Focused on substantive issues in the study of chronic pain, their work explores the great divide between the culturally shaped language of suffering and the traditional language of medical and psychological theorizing. They argue that the representation of experience in local social worlds is a central challenge to the human sciences and to ethnographic writing, and that meeting that challenge is also crucial to the refiguring of pain in medical discourse and health policy debates. Anthropologists, scholars from the medical social sciences and humanities, and many general readers will be interested in Pain as Human Experience. In addition, behavioral medicine and pain specialists, psychiatrists, and primary care practitioners will find much that is relevant to their work in this book."--Jacket.

Author : Ronald E. Anderson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400776691
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Suffering and Quality of Life written by Ronald E. Anderson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress. The scholarship on suffering is made more comprehensible in the book by using nine different conceptual frames that have been used for making sense of suffering. The primary focus of this work is with the last frame, the quality of life frame. Overall, this chapters show how the research on quality of life and well-being can be enhanced by embracing human suffering. ​

Author : Ronald E. Anderson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319513915
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alleviating World Suffering written by Ronald E. Anderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume on the subject of the alleviation of world suffering. At the same time it is also the first book framing the fields of global socio-economic development, world health, human rights, peace studies, sustainability, and poverty within the challenge of alleviating suffering and improving quality of life. Both international studies and global development have become specialized and fragmented, whereas this work assembles all of these development fragments together in order to determine whether common ground exists to make headway in reducing global suffering. Leading experts in these various fields of development and suffering have been recruited worldwide to give scholarly assessments of the major human problems and how they can be successfully tackled.

Author : Pope John Paul II
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780819854582
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering written by Pope John Paul II and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on February 11, 1984, Salvifici Doloris addresses the question of why God allows suffering. This 30th anniversary edition includes the complete text of the letter plus commentary by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD, a priest and physician trained in geriatrics with an expertise in palliative care. Acknowledgments of recent episodes of violence bring the papal document into a modern context. Insightful questions suited for individual or group use, applicable prayers, and ideas for meaningful action invite readers to personally respond to the mystery of suffering.

Author : Gloria L. Schaab
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781599825632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If God Is for Us written by Gloria L. Schaab and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In every era, the scope of pain, suffering, and death in the world and its peoples has provoked profound and perplexing questions. Attempts to reconcile such experiences with a benevolent God only further complicate the questions and confusions that arise out of suffering. If God is for us : Christian perspectives on God and suffering illustrates a profound tradition of struggling - both personally and theologically - to interpret, reflect on, and find meaning in the midst of hardship. Through biblical, theological, and philosophical resources, Schaab explores a broad range of both ancient and modern Christian interpretations of personal, communal, and systemic suffering." -- Cover.

Author : Rodney Reed
Publisher : Langham Global Library
ISBN 13 : 9781783683604
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Suffering written by Rodney Reed and published by Langham Global Library. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity and Suffering addresses the need for sustained theological reflection on suffering by Africans, or for Africans and is the fruit of the 5th Annual Conference of the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology. The contributions address age-old issues and wrestle with causes of suffering all from within the African context.

Author : Yvonne Crespo Limoges
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 166324216X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acts That Prove Causes of Human Suffering from the Perspective of Reincarnation written by Yvonne Crespo Limoges and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is much unfairness, inequality and suffering in our world. Could some of these situations be the direct result of actions we took in past lives? This book provides a series of spirit communications received through spiritual mediumship indicating that to be true. Spirits in the afterlife reveal reasonable explanations why many seemingly unexplained human conditions, people and many tragic circumstances in our lives were brought about as a consequence of our choices and actions made in past life existences. Also revealed, is that we chose and were aware, before rebirth, what the circumstances of our lives would be. For we returned to earth, out of love: to make amends, for redemption, self-sacrifice in caring for those we love, as well as for the spiritual progress of our soul. Further, we are not alone in our journey throughout our material lives. We have our spirit guides and the spirits of family and friends that help us from the afterlife, always providing inspiration, guidance and consolation. We are never alone in our sorrows! The life stories herein will provide new insight and answers to the whys of our lives, individually and collectively, and the spirits reveal there is a Divine Plan which is one of CONSOLATION, HOPE and UNCONDITONAL LOVE.

Author : Rev. Dn. Stephen Muse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936773480
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pain, Suffering and Resilience written by Rev. Dn. Stephen Muse and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual Integration in psychotherapy together with integrative approaches in medicine are increasingly recognized as offering the best care for those who suffer as well as for those who care for them. This volume is a compilation edited from peer-reviewed papers selected from presenters at the 2016 and 2017 national conferences of the Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology and Religion which includes eminent scholars, clergy, physicians, and psychotherapists seeking to serve people in their respective fields, through their respective disciplines informed and guided by the depth and riches of the Orthodox Christian Faith.

Author : Joseph Tham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401787360
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics written by Joseph Tham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advance of biomedicine, certain individuals and groups are vulnerable because of their incapacities to defend themselves. The International Bioethics Committee as a UNESCO working group has for the last several years dedicated to deepen this principle of human vulnerability and personal integrity. This book serves to supplement this effort with a religious perspective given a great number of the world’s population is affiliated with some religious traditions. While there is diversity within each of these traditions, all of them carry in them the mission to protect the weak, the underprivileged, and the poor. Thus, here presented is a collection of papers written by bioethics experts from six major world religions—Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism—who were gathered to discuss the meaning and implications of the principle of vulnerability in their respective traditions.