Human Suffering and Quality of Life : Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics


Ronald E. Anderson
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Dordrecht : : Springer, , 2013.
Omfang
1 online resource (111 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Preface; Contents; 1 Conceptualizing Human Pain and Suffering; 1.1 The Suffering Concept; 1.2 A Taxonomy for Pain and Suffering; 1.3 Frames for Thinking about Suffering; 1.4 Suffering as Punishment; 1.5 Suffering as Reward; 1.6 Suffering as Craving; 1.7 Suffering from Altruistic Action; 1.8 Suffering as Natural Destiny; 1.9 Suffering as Manageable; 1.10 Relief of Suffering as Human Purpose; 1.11 Relief of Social Suffering as Progress in Quality of Life; 1.12 Conclusions; References; 2 Narrative Accounts of the Agony of Suffering; 2.1 The Significance of Narratives of Pain and Suffering. - 2.1.1 Authenticity of Narratives of Pain and Suffering2.2 Narratives of Suffering on the Internet; 2.2.1 Suffering as Punishment; 2.2.2 Suffering as Reward; 2.2.3 Suffering as Craving; 2.2.4 Suffering from Sacrifice or Altruistic Actions; 2.3 Suffering as Natural Destiny; 2.4 Suffering as Pain Management; 2.4.1 Relief of Suffering as Human Purpose; 2.4.2 Relief of Social Suffering as Progress in Quality of Life; 2.5 Conclusions; References; 3 Statistical Portrait of Suffering in America; 3.1 Data for Measuring Suffering in the United States; 3.2 Indicators of Specific Types of Suffering. - 3.2.1 Physical Suffering3.2.2 Extreme Pain; 3.2.3 Mental Suffering; 3.2.4 Anxiety; 3.2.5 Extreme Anxiety; 3.2.6 Depression; 3.2.7 Extreme Depression; 3.2.8 Grief; 3.2.9 Existential Suffering; 3.2.10 Social Suffering; 3.2.11 Any Suffering; 3.2.12 Any Extreme Suffering; 3.3 Sex, Age, and Income Differences in Suffering; 3.4 Quality of Life and Suffering; 3.4.1 Predicting Quality of Life; 3.5 Implications; 3.6 Summary; 3.7 Conclusions; References; 4 Suffering on a Global Scale; 4.1 Applying the Notion of Global Suffering; 4.2 Subjective Suffering; 4.3 Types of Calamities Related to Suffering. - 4.3.1 Hunger (Nutrition Deprived)4.3.2 HIV Prevalence; 4.3.3 Internally Displaced Persons; 4.3.4 Refugees (Outflow); 4.3.5 Infant Deaths (Under-age-5); 4.3.6 Pollution-related Deaths; 4.3.7 Disaster Victims; 4.3.8 Suicides; 4.3.9 Homicides; 4.3.10 Civil War Deaths; 4.3.11 Poverty; 4.3.12 Corruption; 4.4 Construction of an Objective Suffering Indicator; 4.5 Multidimensional Suffering and Gender Inequality; 4.6 Multidimensional Suffering and Social Supports; 4.7 Conclusions; References; 5 World Suffering Expands as Gaps in Care Widen; 5.1 Alternative Approaches of Responding to Suffering. - 5.2 The Care Divide5.2.1 Nations; 5.2.2 Rich Nations; 5.2.3 States; 5.3 How the Rich Undermine Reduction of World Suffering; 5.4 Inequality and the Widening of Care Divides; 5.5 Inequality, Income Segregation and World Suffering; 5.6 Implications; References; 6 Ending Preventable Suffering: Ethics and Social Change; 6.1 Ethical Foundations for the Relief of Suffering; 6.2 Individual Actions to Relieve Suffering; 6.3 Institutional Change to Relieve Suffering; 6.4 Change in Social Policy for Aid and Welfare Programs; 6.5 Implications for Quality of Life Research. - 6.6 Cutting Edge, Contentious Issues Related to Suffering. - 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 o
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