Book chapter
Afterword: Human Rights and the Science of Suffering
Trauma and Human Rights, pp 287-319
18 Jul 2019
Abstract
The author of this final chapter is a psychiatrist whose expertise includes a deep understanding of the impact of traumatic stress on individuals, groups, and organizations. She calls this understanding the “science of suffering” and in doing so ties together traumatic stress studies and human rights advocacy as two inseparable discourses, functioning at two different levels within any society—the first focusing on alleviation of suffering, the other on the prevention of suffering. She reviews the changing relationship between these two discourses over time showing how that relationship has shifted depending on dominant themes within the psychiatric profession as psychiatry moves toward and then away from grappling with the social determinants of health that are irrevocably tied to human rights.
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- Title
- Afterword: Human Rights and the Science of Suffering
- Creators
- Sandra L. Bloom - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Trauma and Human Rights, pp 287-319
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Other Identifier
- 991020547802004721