Human Suffering and Quality of Life Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics /

• Main Author: Anderson, Ronald E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Medical research.; Social policy.; Aging.; Sociology.; Quality of life.; Social Sciences.; Quality of Life Research.; Social Policy.; Sociology, general.

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....

Table of Contents:

• 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.