Human suffering and quality of life : conceptualizing stories and statistics /

Human suffering and quality of life : conceptualizing stories and statistics /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Anderson, Ronald E., author.
Imprint:	Dordrecht : Springer, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 105 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research, 2211-7644 SpringerBriefs in well-being and quality of life research,
Subject:	Suffering -- Social aspects. Suffering -- Evaluation. Suffering -- Statistics. Quality of life -- Evaluation. Quality of life -- Statistics. Social psychology. Suffering -- Social aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11081520

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ISBN:	9789400776692 9400776691 9400776683 9789400776685 9789400776685
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Anderson, Ronald E. Human suffering and quality of life. Dordrecht : New York : Springer, ©2014 9400776683
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-94-007-7669-2

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.