Alleviating World Suffering
The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life
Editors: Anderson, Ronald E. (Ed.)
Free Preview- 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
Buy this book
- 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.
- About the authors
-
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.
- Table of contents (27 chapters)
-
-
A Worldview of the Alleviation of Suffering
Pages 3-34
-
Systemic Humiliation as Daily Social Suffering
Pages 35-48
-
Suffering and the Ethics of Solidarity
Pages 49-60
-
Social Suffering and the Enigma of Humanitarianism
Pages 61-71
-
Synergy, Dysergy and the Alleviation of Preventable Suffering
Pages 73-83
-
Table of contents (27 chapters)
Recommended for you
Bibliographic Information
- 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
- Series Volume
- 67
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-51391-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-51391-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-51390-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-84638-5
- Series ISSN
- 1387-6570
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 448
- Number of Illustrations
- 11 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
- Topics
*immediately available upon purchase as print book shipments may be delayed due to the COVID-19 crisis. ebook access is temporary and does not include ownership of the ebook. Only valid for books with an ebook version. Springer Reference Works are not included.
