Knowing the suffering of others [electronic resource] : legal perspectives on pain and its meanings / edited by Austin Sarat.

Includes index.

Introduction : pain and suffering as facts of legal life / Austin Sarat -- Suffering the loss of suffering : how law shapes and occludes pain / Linda Ross Meyer ; Commentary: Taming suffering / Meredith M. Render -- The ambiguous standing of suffering in negligence law / Gregory C. Keating ; Commentary: Gregory C. Keating's "The Ambiguous standing of suffering in negligence law" / Alan L. Durham -- 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 -- Disappearing history : scenes of trauma in the theater of human rights / Cathy Caruth ; Commentary: A record but no truth? : recording and re-recording trauma in the real-life struggle for civil rights / Montre D. Carodine -- Laws of trauma / Jeannie Suk ; Commentary: Knowing the suffering of others : a commentary on Jeannie Suk's "Laws of trauma" / Bryan K. Fair.

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