Social Suffering

Bys: Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das, Margaret M. Lock

Book Overview

"Social suffering" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture--the whole assemblage of human problems that result from what political, economic, and institutional power does to people--and also human responses to social problems as they are influenced by those forms of power. In the same way that the notion of social suffering breaks down boundaries between specific scholarly disciplines, this cross-disciplinary investigation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520209958
• ISBN13: 9780520209954
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 425 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"