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100 1 _aAnderson, Ronald E.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHuman Suffering and Quality of Life
_h[electronic resource] :
_bConceptualizing Stories and Statistics /
_cby Ronald E. Anderson.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2014.
300 _aIX, 105 p. 18 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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490 1 _aSpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research,
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505 0 _aPreface -- 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.
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aSocial sciences.
650 0 _aQuality of Life.
650 0 _aSocial policy.
650 0 _aAging
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650 0 _aQuality of Life
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650 1 4 _aSocial Sciences.
650 2 4 _aQuality of Life Research.
650 2 4 _aSocial Policy.
650 2 4 _aQuality of Life Research.
650 2 4 _aSociology, general.
650 2 4 _aAging.
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830 0 _aSpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research,
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