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Pain and Suffering
In Chap. 5, we delve into the neuronal correlation between pain and suffering, examining not only their connection but also exploring the...
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Spiritual Disharmonies Among the Emberá Dobida: Territorial, Bodily, and Linguistic Suffering
Suicide in children and young people from indigenous peoples of Latin America has increased progressively. Social, political, cultural, and spiritual...
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Narratives, emotions and violence on television: gender attitudes towards human suffering
The content of violent images broadcast on television is more explicit every day. New technologies favour the creation of very realistic and brutal...
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Beyond the Spectacle: Rethinking Media Representations of HIV/AIDS and Social Suffering
This chapter presents an examination of the portrayal of HIV/AIDS as social suffering in media representations. It elucidates how cultural...
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Domestic violence and Islamic spirituality in Lombok, Indonesia: women’s use of Sufi approaches to suffering
This article argues that the Sufi practice of dhikr in combination with Quranic recitation and prayer can be understood as “hidden agency” Muslim...
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Bearable and unbearable suffering in later life
This paper is concerned with the nature of suffering and its judged intractability and unbearability, with relevance to debates about assisted dying...
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Introduction: ‘An Exquisite Suffering’
Although representations of mothers pervade cultural forms, motherhood has long been depicted in reductive or limited terms. This has resulted in a...
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Legitimate suffering: a case of belonging and sickle cell trait in Brazil
Patient activism organizations are formed around and seek legitimacy via both biological and biographical identities (Fassin, in: Theory Cult Soc...
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Victims of Drug-Induced Suffering: Their Movement and Its Research Archives
This chapter describes the occurrence of drug-induced suffering (DIS) incidents and how they promoted the improvement of Japan’s system to ensure the...
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Suffering from or in Old Age? The Existential Gravity of Ageing
‘Ageing is a disease, disease is suffering, and suffering should be minimized.’ Old age as an equivalent of suffering to be eliminated, is a...
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Low Income, Ill-being, and Gender Inequality: Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Gendered Risk of Suffering Among the Poor
Scholars have long investigated the positive link between income and well-being, including its gender difference. However, little is known about (1)...
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The Darker Side of Ageing: Towards an Ethics of Suffering that Emphasises the Primacy of Witnessing
Many older adults succeed in finding meaning in life, even in deep old age. There is, however, a minority of older adults, in particular among the...
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Psychologists’ Perspectives on the Psychological Suffering of Refugee Patients in Brazil
Worldwide there are 79.5 million displaced people, many of which face war, violence, tragic flights and struggles in host countries. Research shows...
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What About Us? Experiences of Relatives Regarding Physician-Assisted Death for Patients Suffering from Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study
Physician-assisted death (PAD) for patients suffering from mental illness is legally permitted in the Netherlands. Although patients’ relatives are...
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Feeling Seen, Being Heard: Perspectives of Patients Suffering from Mental Illness on the Possibility of Physician-Assisted Death in the Netherlands
Physician-assisted death (PAD) for patients suffering from a mental illness is allowed in the Netherlands under certain conditions but is a very...
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Understanding Suffering
In this first chapter, I would like to start with what moves the whole book—and perhaps all sociological inquiry. It is not a mere intellectual...
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Invisibilization of Suffering The Moral Grammar of Disrespect
This book offers a comprehensive theory of invisibility as a critical sociological concept, addressing the relationship between social suffering and...
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The differential effects of identity theft victimization: how demographics predict suffering out-of-pocket losses
Research consistently finds that individuals with higher incomes have increased rates of identity theft victimization. Although the majority of these...