Bodies and Suffering - Emotions and Relations of Care

This book is a critical response to a range of problems, some theoretical, others empirical, that shape questions surrounding the lived experience of suffering.

List of contents

Introduction Part 1: Suffering, Bodies and Disease 1. Suffering, Recognition and Chronic Pain 2. Caring and Refractory Suffering Part 2: Suffering, Mental Illness and Migration 3. Intergenerational Trauma and Emotional Suffering 4. Transnational Adult Adoptees and Emotional Distress Part 3: Sites of Care, Self-help and Coping with Suffering 5. Reframing Terminality and Suffering 6. Family Constellation Therapy and Intergenerational Trauma 7. Conclusion

About the author

Ana Dragojlovic is a Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Alex Broom is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, and in the Practical Justice Initiative, UNSW Australia.

Summary

This book is a critical response to a range of problems, some theoretical, others empirical, that shape questions surrounding the lived experience of suffering.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Broom, Broom Alex, Ana Dragojlovic, Ana (University of Queensland Dragojlovic, Dragojlovic Ana
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367224486
• ISBN: 978-0-367-22448-6
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Personal & public health, Social Work, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Personal and public health / health education