Social Suffering Arthur Kleinman
Veena Das, Margaret Lock (eds)
Oxford University Press, 2000
Rs 345

Social Suffering takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture- resulting from political, economic and institutional power-and also human responses to social problems as they are influenced by those forms of power. This cross-disciplinary investigation challenges traditional research and policies, allowing us to see the 20th century in a new frame. It provides new perspectives on social suffering and should prove timely to on-going examinations of India's partition.

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