Overview
- The first book that integrates quality of life research and suffering
- Addresses suffering as both an individual burden and a global one
- Views suffering as a broad, serious phenomena that can be alleviated
- Integrates humanitarian and empirical traditions?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research (BRIEFSWELLBEING)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Individual and Global Burden
- Integrating empirical traditions
- Integrating humanitarian traditions
- Measuring Human Suffering
- Narratives of Pain and Suffering
- Notion of Global Suffering
- Quality of Life Research and Human Suffering
- Specific Types of Suffering
- Suffering and Gender Inequality
- Suffering and Social Supports
- Thinking about Suffering
- Widening of Care Divides
- World Suffering
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Reviews
From the book reviews:
“Anderson’s work provides a wake-up call to those in quality of life research domains as well as a broader audience too – essentially anyone concerned with the plight of the human lot. … This book began with an ambitious goal of providing ways of thinking through the difficult and multi-dimensional issue of suffering experienced by humankind … .” (Rhonda Phillips, Applied Research Quality Life, Vol. 9, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ronald (Ron) Anderson is Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD in sociology from Stanford University in 1970. From 1968 until retiring in 2005, he served on the faculty of sociology at the University of Minnesota. Throughout that time, he consulted for many government agencies and corporations on survey research and technology-related issues. From 1990 to 2005, he coordinated several international studies of the social and learning effects of information technology within primary and secondary education in 20 or more countries in each study. From that and earlier work, he wrote or edited seven books and over 100 articles. Since retirement, his research interests have focused primarily on compassion and suffering. Further details on his work can be found in the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Anderson
www.soc.umn.edu/~rea/
StopSuffering.net.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Suffering and Quality of Life
Book Subtitle: Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics
Authors: Ronald E. Anderson
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7669-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7668-5Published: 21 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7669-2Published: 09 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-7644
Series E-ISSN: 2211-7652
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 105
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Social Policy, Quality of Life Research, Sociology, general, Aging