9789400776685-9400776683-Human Suffering and Quality of Life: Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics (SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research)

Human Suffering and Quality of Life: Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics (SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research)

ISBN-13: 9789400776685
ISBN-10: 9400776683
Edition: 2014
Author: Ronald E. Anderson
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Springer
Format: Paperback 114 pages
Category: Aging
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ISBN-13: 9789400776685
ISBN-10: 9400776683
Edition: 2014
Author: Ronald E. Anderson
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Springer
Format: Paperback 114 pages
Category: Aging

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Human Suffering and Quality of Life: Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics (SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research) (ISBN-13: 9789400776685 and ISBN-10: 9400776683), written by authors Ronald E. Anderson, was published by Springer in 2013. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Aging books. You can easily purchase or rent Human Suffering and Quality of Life: Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics (SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Aging books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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.

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