Suffering: A Sociological Introduction

1 Introduction: Suffering, Social Science and the Challenge to Sociology.
 
2 What is Suffering?

3 Our Classical Heritage.

4 Social Suffering: A Critical Appraisal.

5 The Problem of Suffering and our Feeling for Humanity.

6 Mediatized Suffering: Prospects for the Internationalisation of Conscience.

7 Towards a Critical Sociology of Suffering.

References.

Index.