Human Suffering and Quality of Life

Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics

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Paperback, 105 blz. | Engels
Springer Netherlands | 2014e druk, 2013
ISBN13: 9789400776685
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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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ISBN13:9789400776685
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:105
Uitgever:Springer Netherlands
Druk:2014

Inhoudsopgave

<p>Preface.- Chapter 1. Conceptualizing Human Pain and Suffering.- Chapter 2. Narrative Accounts of the Agony of Suffering.- Chapter 3. Statistical Portrait of Suffering in America.- Chapter 4. Suffering on a Global Scale.- Chapter 5. World Suffering Expands as Gaps in Care Widen.- Chapter 6. Ending Preventable Suffering: Ethics and Social Change.- Index.</p><p>

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