Human suffering and quality of life [electronic resource] : conceptualizing stories and statistics / Ronald E. Anderson.
2014
BF789.S8 A53 2014eb
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Title
Human suffering and quality of life [electronic resource] : conceptualizing stories and statistics / Ronald E. Anderson.
Author
Anderson, Ronald E., author.
ISBN
9789400776692 electronic book
9400776691 electronic book
9789400776685
9400776691 electronic book
9789400776685
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 105 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-007-7669-2 doi
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BF789.S8 A53 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
128/.4
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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SpringerBriefs in well-being and quality of life research.
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Table of Contents
Conceptualizing Human Pain and Suffering
Narrative Accounts of the Agony of Suffering
Statistical Portrait of Suffering in America
Suffering on a Global Scale
World Suffering Expands as Gaps in Care Widen
Ending Preventable Suffering: Ethics and Social Change.
Narrative Accounts of the Agony of Suffering
Statistical Portrait of Suffering in America
Suffering on a Global Scale
World Suffering Expands as Gaps in Care Widen
Ending Preventable Suffering: Ethics and Social Change.