This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013.
In November 2011, academics from across the disciplines came together to discuss the idea of suffering. This book is a product of that meeting, bringing together the ideas of 17 authors to discuss, from different perspectives, what does it mean to suffer and can meaning be made out of suffering?
Anja A. Drautzburg has a MA in English Literature from Bonn University, Germany and works as a German ‘Lektorin’ at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include 20th and 21st century British literature and culture as well as dialogues between medicine and literature.
Jackson Oldfield is an independent scholar, formerly of Lund University, Sweden. His interests include migration and undocumentedness, human rights and participation, and the human rights obligations of non-state actors.