How to speak of suffering is an issue which has engaged creative writers since Aristotle, and during the last fifteen years or so has come to the fore in debates about the mass media. Over about the same period, it has come to be realized that the same problem faces many anthropologists. A convenient and challenging roundup of current thinking by anthropologists and some other scholars on the subject of 'social suffering' may be found in the winter 1996 number of Daedalus , which originates from a Rockefeller Foundation conference held in Bellagio.
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