TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,Ronald E.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Human Suffering and Quality of Life: Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics 
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research,
SN  - 9789400776692
AV  - HN25 
U1  - 306 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer
KW  - social sciences
KW  - quality of life
KW  - Social policy
KW  - Aging
KW  - Research
KW  - Quality of Life
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Quality of Life Research
KW  - Social Policy
KW  - Sociology, general
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7669-2
ER  -