Part I World Suffering: A Challenge to Humanity, Humanitarianism and Human Rights
1 Implications of World Suffering for Human Progress, Ronald E. Anderson
2 Silencing of Sexual Violence against Men in War Torn Countries, Elise Feron
3 Social Suffering and Critical Humanitarianism, Iain Wilkinson
4 Compassion, Cruelty, and Human Rights, Natan Sznaider
5 Making Sense of Suffering: Insights from Buddhism and Critical Social Science, Ruben Flores
6 Distant Suffering: The Mediation Of Humanitarian Disaster, Johannes von Engelhardt and Jeroen Jansz
Part II   Professional and Informal Caregiving
1 Suffering and Identity: “Difficult Patients” in Hospice Care, Cindy L. Cain
2 Healing Suffering: The Evolution of Caring Practices, Nancy E. Johnston
3 Meaning in Bereavement, Robert A. Neimeyer
4 Coping with the Suffering of Ambiguous Loss, Pauline Boss
5 Social Suffering and an Approach to Professionals’ Burnout, Graciela Tonon, Lía Rodriguez de la Vega, and Inés Aristegui
6 The Invisible Suffering of HIV and AIDS Caregivers in Botswana, Gloria Jacques
7 Loneliness as Social Suffering: Social Participation, Quality Of Life, and Chronic Stroke, Narelle Warren and Darshini Ayton
Part III   Quality of Life: Global, Community, and Personal
1 Child Well-being and Child Suffering, Kenneth Land, Vicki Lamb, and Qiang Fu
2 Felt-Suffering and its Social Variations in China, Yangie Bian and Jing Shen
3 Suffering Ailments and Addiction Problems in the Family, Mariano Rojas
4 Suffering and Good Society analysis across African countries, Ferdi Botha
5 Lifetime Suffering and Capabilities in Chile, Francisca Dussaillant and Pablo Gonzalez
6 Shame, Humiliation and Isolation: Missing Dimensions of Poverty Analysis and Suffering, China Mills and Diego Zavaleta
Part IV   Suffering and Community: Online and offline contexts
1 The Cultural Geography of Community Suffering, Daina Cheyenne Harvey
2 Social organization of suffering and justice-seeking in a tragic day care fire disaster, Eric C. Jones and Arthur D. Murphy
3 Community Quality of Life indicators to avoid tragedies, Rhonda Phillips
4 Community Action to Alleviate Suffering from Racism: The Role of Religion and Caring Capital in Small City USA, Meg Wilkes Karraker
5 Suffering in Online Interactions, Katrin Döveling & Katrin Wasgien
6 Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Suffering, Laura Robinson
7 Iconography of Suffering in Social Media: Images of Sitting Girls, Anna Johansson & Hans Sternudd
Part V   Research and Policy Challenges for the Future
1 The Neurosociology of Social Rejection and Suffering, David D. Franks
2 Collaborative Humanitarianism: Information Networks that Reduce Suffering, Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu and Andrea H. Tapia
3 A New Method For Measuring and Analyzing Suffering–Comparing Suffering in Italian Society, Marco Fattore and Filomena Maggino
4 The Micropolitics of Suffering, Ara Francis and Daina Cheyenne Harvey
5 Emotions, empathyand the choice to alleviate suffering, Caitlin O. Mahoney & Laura M. Harder
6 How Suffering Challenges our Future, Ronald E Anderson.