Human Suffering and Quality of Life: Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics
Ronald E. Anderson (auth.)This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on 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, this chapters show how the research on quality of life and well-being can be enhanced by embracing human suffering.
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Year:
2014
Edition:
1
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands
Language:
english
Pages:
105
ISBN 10:
9400776691
ISBN 13:
9789400776692
Series:
SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
File:
PDF, 2.41 MB
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english, 2014