Human suffering and quality of life [electronic resource] : conceptualizing stories and statistics / Ronald E. Anderson.

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Human suffering and quality of life [electronic resource] : conceptualizing stories and statistics / Ronald E. Anderson.

9789400776692 electronic book
9400776691 electronic book
9789400776685

Dordrecht : Springer, 2014.

English

1 online resource (ix, 105 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-94-007-7669-2 doi

BF789.S8 A53 2014eb

128/.4

This brief on human suffering adds to understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on pain and suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress. The scholarship on suffering is made more comprehensible in the book by using nine different conceptual frames that have been used for making sense of suffering. The primary focus of this work is with the last frame, the quality of life frame. Overall, these chapters show for the first time how the research on quality of life and well-being can be enhanced by embracing human suffering.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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