Human suffering and quality of life : conceptualizing stories and statistics / Ronald E. Anderson.
"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 progr...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
[2014]
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| Series: | SpringerBriefs in well-being and quality of life research.
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | "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. "--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 105 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9400776691 9789400776692 |