Knowing the suffering of others
Subtitle: legal perspectives on pain and its meanings
By: edited by Austin Sarat
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780817357689; 9780817387419
Subjects: Law; Congresses; Suffering; Pain
Notes: "This volume is the product of a symposium held at the University of Alabama School of Law on March 30, 2012."--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Suffering the loss of suffering : how law shapes and occludes pain / Linda Ross Meyer ; Commentary : Taming suffering / Meredith M. Render; title: The ambiguous standing of suffering in negligence law / Gregory C. Keating ; Commentary : Emotional distress and the victim's perspective / Alan L. Durham; title: Two conceptions of suffering in war / John Fabian Witt ; Commentary : Personal reflections on Professor John Fabian Witt's "Two conceptions of suffering in war" / Stephen H. Hobbs; title: Disappearing history : scenes of trauma in the theater of human rights / Cathy Caruth ; Commentary : A record but no truth? : re-recording and re-recording trauma in the real-life struggle for civil rights / Montre D. Carodine; title: Laws of trauma / Jeannie Suk ; Commentary : Knowing the suffering of others : a commentary on Jeannie Suk's "Laws of trauma" / Bryan K. Fair.