Medical Humanities, Sociology and the Suffering Self

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.

Wendy Lowe is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology and Medical Education at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

1.Stitching Together Suffering 2.Patterns of suffering 3.Suffering as foundational to health professional education 4.Sorting the wood from the trees 5.The suffering self and burning woman 6.Pilgrimages - how can medical humanities think differently about suffering? 7.Diving Down Deep