Human Suffering and Quality of Life Conceptualizing Stories and Stat
This brief on human suffering adds to understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on pain and suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, soc
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Human Suffering and Quality of Life Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics
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Ronald E. Anderson University of Minnesota Wayzata, MN USA
ISSN 2211-7644 ISSN 2211-7652 (electronic) ISBN 978-94-007-7668-5 ISBN 978-94-007-7669-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7669-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London
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Preface
The original intent of this little book is to take on four very big challenges: (1) a framework that makes it easier to think about suffering and measure it, (2) a compilation of available data on how much suffering exists in the world, (3) rationales for why people should become more aware of the vast volume of severe suffering around the world, and (4) justification for giving higher priority to the reduction of suffering in our personal, state, and global policy objectives. With these goals, you should not be surprised that the book looks at suffering from many different angles. After 40 year
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