Overview
- Views suffering as a broad, serious phenomena that can be alleviated
- Addresses suffering as both an individual burden and a global one
- First major compilation of work integrating quality of life research and relief of suffering
- Integrates humanitarian and empirical traditions
- Features leading scholars in both suffering and quality of life studies
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 67)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Humanitarian and Social Perspectives on Suffering Alleviation
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Quality of Life (QOL), Caring and Suffering Alleviation
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Improving Global Development, Healthcare and Poverty Reduction
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About this book
This is the first volume on the subject of the alleviation of world suffering. At the same time it is also the first book framing the fields of global socio-economic development, world health, human rights, peace studies, sustainability, and poverty within the challenge of alleviating suffering and improving quality of life. Both international studies and global development have become specialized and fragmented, whereas this work assembles all of these development fragments together in order to determine whether common ground exists to make headway in reducing global suffering. Leading experts in these various fields of development and suffering have been recruited worldwide to give scholarly assessments of the major human problems and how they can be successfully tackled.
Reviews
“This book is a valuable addition to the research on human and global suffering. … important for policy makers, government agency and bureau heads/leadership as well as community advocates and leaders seeking large-scale systems change to complex social problems. … It is a tool as well as a resource to understand the past, make sense of the present and plan for the future. The book benchmarks suffering alleviation and in that regard makes this book a landmark in the field.” (Patsy Kraeger, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 16, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ronald E. Anderson is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota and has published nine books, over 100 articles, 150 presentations at professional meetings, 15 large research grants, and at least 40 consulting positions. For two decades, Ronald E. Anderson coordinated research on information technology in education in over 25 countries, publishing several books from that international project. To support his writing he established the Foundation for Relief of Suffering, a 501c3 nonprofit organization; and to disseminate his conclusions, he built and maintained the website WorldSuffering.org. The University of Minnesota has given him several small research grants during retirement to support his research on suffering.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Alleviating World Suffering
Book Subtitle: The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life
Editors: Ronald E. Anderson
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51391-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51390-4Published: 09 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84638-5Published: 18 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51391-1Published: 01 March 2017
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 448
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Ethics, Social Policy, Pain Medicine, Sociology, general