Introduction

Cultural ontology of the self in pain

George, P. G. Jung

1-21

Ontology of pain in moral theories

P. G. Jung

25-50

The familiar stranger

on the loss of self in intense bodily pain

George

51-73

Waiting to speak

a phenomenological perspective on our silence around dying

Kirsten Jacobson

75-92

Pain and catharsis in art, ritual and therapy

Roman Meinhold

93-109

Traditional philosophies and Gandhi's approach to the self in pain

Douglas Allen

111-131

The infinite faces of pain

narrative, eros, and ethics

David Morris

139-163

Shame, placebo and world-taking cognitivism

Phil Hutchinson

165-179

Self and suffering in buddhism and phenomenology

existential pain, compassion and the problems of institutional healthcare

John Russon

181-195

Many faces of woman's pain

Shefali Moitra

197-210

Pain and agency

on the essential importance of vulnerability and transgression

Shannon Hoff

211-223

Dislocations, marginalizations, past and present

pain-experiences of two marginalized communities

R. Umamaheshwari

227-247

Afspa and the tortured bodies

the politics of pain in Manipur

Malem Ningthouja

249-268

Medical mission and the interpretation of pain

Parinitha Shetty

269-283