Human Suffering and Quality of Life
Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
The first book that integrates quality of life research and suffering Addresses suffering as both an individual burden and a global one Views suffering as a broad, serious phenomena that can be alleviated Integrates humanitarian and empirical traditions? Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Ronald E. Anderson
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Individual and Global Burden Integrating empirical traditions Integrating humanitarian traditions Measuring Human Suffering Narratives of Pain and Suffering Notion of Global Suffering Quality of Life Research and Human Suffering Specific Types of Suffering Suffering and Gender Inequality Suffering and Social Supports Thinking about Suffering Widening of Care Divides World Suffering
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From the book reviews:
“Anderson’s work provides a wake-up call to those in quality of life research domains as well as a broader audience too – essentially anyone concerned with the plight of the human lot. … This book began with an ambitious goal of providing ways of thinking through the difficult and multi-dimensional issue of suffering experienced by humankind … .” (Rhonda Phillips, Applied Research Quality Life, Vol. 9, 2014)()