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Social Suffering

Edited by

ARTHUR KLEINMAN, VEENA DAS,

AND MARGARET LOCK

University of California PressBERKELEY LOS ANGELES LONDON

Contents

Acknowledgments vii

IntroductionARTHUR KLEINMAN, VEENA DAS, AND MARGARET LOCK IX

The Appeal of Experience; The Dismay of Images: CulturalAppropriations of Suffering in Our TimesARTHUR KLEINMAN AND JOAN KLEINMAN 1

About Suffering: Voice, Genre, and Moral CommunityDAVID B. MORRIS 25

The Alarmed Vision: Social Suffering andHolocaust AtrocityLAWRENCE L. LANGER 47

Language and Body: Transactions in the Constructionof PainVEENA DAS 67

Comments on Veena Das's Essay "Language and Body:Transactions in the Construction of Pain"STANLEY CAVELL 93

Political Widowhood in South Africa: The Embodimentof AmbiguityMAMPHELA RAMPHELE 99

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The Pane of Sorrow: Public Uses of Personal Griefin Modern ChinaVERA SCHWARCZ 1 1 9

Destructive Will and Ideological Holocaust: Maoismas a Source of Social Suffering in ChinaTU WEI-MING 149

Unmasking Suffering's Masks: Reflections on Old andNew Memories of Nazi MedicineANNE HARRINGTON 1 8 1

Displacing Suffering: The Reconstruction of Deathin North America and JapanMARGARET LOCK 207

Suffering and the Origins of Traumatic MemoryALLAN YOUNG 245

On Suffering and Structural Violence: A Viewfrom BelowPAUL FARMER 261

On Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman, andDegrading TreatmentTALALASAD 285

Suffering Nation and AlienationE. VALENTINE DANIEL 309

Religions, Society, and SufferingJ. W. BOWKER 359

Index 383

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