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This article traces the history of the concept of suffering in order to understand how beliefs about suffering and the pain of suffering affected society and shaped the
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Society’s institutions to address major world suffering can be divided into four social sectors: humanitarian, social policy, informal caregiving, and the spiritual. Each social sector has suffering-alleviation
