This book is a critical response to a range of problems, some theoretical, others empirical, that shape questions surrounding the lived experience of suffering. The book explores how moral and ethical questions of personal suffering are experienced, contested, negotiated and institutionalized. Suitable for bioethicists and health sociologists.

Ana Dragojlovic is a Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Alex Broom is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, and in the Practical Justice Initiative, UNSW Australia.

Introduction Part 1: Suffering, Bodies and Disease 1. Suffering, Recognition and Chronic Pain 2. Caring and Refractory Suffering Part 2: Suffering, Mental Illness and Migration 3. Intergenerational Trauma and Emotional Suffering 4. Transnational Adult Adoptees and Emotional Distress Part 3: Sites of Care, Self-help and Coping with Suffering 5. Reframing Terminality and Suffering 6. Family Constellation Therapy and Intergenerational Trauma 7. Conclusion