HAUERWAS, S. Suffering Presence: Theological Reflections on Medicine, the Mentally Handicapped and the Church. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1986. Hauerwas argues that medicine has so much power in our lives "because we have too willingly assumed that suffering is pointless"-an approach, he claims, that medicine has schooled us to accept.
CASSELL, E. J. The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991. Suffering encompasses far more than physical pain. Cassell suggests that "[s]uffering occurs when an impending destruction of the person is perceived; it continues until the threat of disintegration has passed or until the integrity of the person can be restored in some other manner."
FRANK, A. The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness and Ethics. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. Frank faults this "restitution" ending because it leads to the conclusion that restoration is Job's prize for solving the "puzzle" of suffering; instead, Frank follows William F. May in urging a distinction between a mystery that can only be faced up to, and a puzzle that can be solved.
edited by M. FRIEDMAN. New York: Harper, Buber also rejects contemporaneous psychoanalytic doctrine that holds guilt is merely a psychological phenomenon. "Existential guilt," he insists, is highly particularized and personalized and can be dealt with only by a process of confession and reconciliation, and by taking responsibility for one's actions.
BUBER, M. Guilt and guilt feelings. In The Knowledge of Alan: A Philosophy of the Interhuman, edited by M. FRIEDMAN. New York: Harper, 1965. Buber also rejects contemporaneous psychoanalytic doctrine that holds guilt is merely a psychological phenomenon. "Existential guilt," he insists, is highly particularized and personalized and can be dealt with only by a process of confession and reconciliation, and by taking responsibility for one's actions.
FINKLESTEIN, L. Insight into our deep need. Life (18 May 1959). Rabbi Finklestein asserted that io/AJoban stories end ambiguously: "The vision of the Kingdom of God, awaiting a purified, ennobled and exalted humanity, remains outside J.B. as it remains beyond Job."
