Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Origins of Social Suffering 2. In Division and Denial 3. A Broken Recovery 4. Learning from Weber 5. The Praxis of Social Suffering 6. Caregiving Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Iain Wilkinson is Reader in Sociology at the School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research at the University of Kent. He is author of Risk, Vulnerability and Everyday Life, Suffering: A Sociological Introduction, and Anxiety in a Risk Society. Arthur Kleinman is a psychiatrist and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University. He currently serves as Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. He is author of The Illness Narratives and What Really Matters, coauthor of Reimagining Global Health, and coeditor of Social Suffering, to name a few of the other books he has written or edited.