This book is a critical response to a range of problems, some theoretical, others empirical, that shape questions surrounding the lived experience of suffering.

Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social justice, Lowe argues that medical humanities can help to go beyond the traditional biographical and epistemic breaks to see into the nature and properties of suffering and what is at stake.

 

This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress and construct pain as a potentially positive experience.

This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned.