“Alleviating World Suffering The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life”, by Ronald Anderson (Ed.) Cham, Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-51391-1

作者：Patsy Kraeger · 发表于：Applied Research in Quality of Life · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.1007/s11482-020-09907-1 · 被引用次数：1

Anderson (2014) explains in his initial work exploring human suffering and quality of life, he learned, after digesting much research on human suffering, there is a diversity of opinions in this subject. Suffering is “severe distress that damages one’s body, mind or interpersonal relationships but also damages one’s self identity.... [I]t encompasses not only physical hurts’ but mental and emotional trauma and destruction of dignity of individuals, social groups and even societies” (Anderson 2015 3–12 cited in Anderson and Otten 2017:4). With Alleviating World Suffering The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life, Anderson and Otten (2017) and co-authors in this edited volume explore deeply differing approaches and resolutions for alleviating negative quality of life as a result of complex problems causing world suffering. Approaches to suffering alleviation or reduction are defined and explored in 27 chapters in this book through theoretical, empirical, critical inquiry and case study research. The approaches to alleviating world suffering are interdisciplinary and comprehensive allowing researchers, academics, students as well policy makers to better understand the complexity of world suffering, examine solutions and take action for community change or build on the research in this volume. Anderson and Otten’s (2015, 2017) definition is the starting place for his opening chapter on frameworks for suffering alleviation which are enhanced from the interdisciplinary quality of l...