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In an ironic way, Prose proves how a reader, choosing her own representation of suffering as universal, misses the point of another tradition of local dictions.
In her long, provocative essay on the photographic representation of suffering and cruelty, from the Civil War to the Nazi death camps, from Bosnia to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Sontag reflects on how we process such images, the limits of shock and the motives of those behind the cameras.
In his latest novel to appear in English (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden), a contemporary war photographer exchanges his Nikon for a paintbrush as he energetically embarks on a pictorial representation of suffering, all "26 centuries of the iconography of war," inspired by everything from Greek vases to Diego Rivera's murals and every minor Italian master in between.
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Initially, artists and journalists hoped that new media's vivid representations of suffering would incite a wholesale rejection of that suffering's causes.
It is unclear to me what kinds of representations of suffering can always escape condemnation as sentimental, or manipulative, or "suffering porn".
Short-term psychotherapy, adapted specifically to the context, through the integration of the culturally variable representations of illness, suffering and treatment [ 9, 10], may be the only viable possibility to offer mental health care in conflict.
The Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (PRISM) has been introduced as a visual measure of suffering.
The Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (PRISM), has recently been introduced as a generic measure of suffering [ 3].
The Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (PRISM) is a recently developed tool designed to measure the burden of suffering due to illness in a variety of patient populations.
Imbalances in representation and lack of diverse perspectives lead to skewed, erratic, and misguided U.S. foreign policies, leave alone the fact that scores of suffering humans are left without voice.
Sometimes suffering alone can be the worst type of suffering.
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