| Concepts and Measurement of Quality of Life in Health Care 1994 Edition Contributor(s): Nordenfelt, L. y. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0792328248 ISBN-13: 9780792328247 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1994 Annotation: This volume brings together a number of scholarly studies on the definition, assessment and measurement of human quality of life. The book contains fundamental analyses of basic concepts such as welfare, wellbeing, happiness and quality of life itself, but contains also discussions on the application of such concepts for measuring purposes mainly in a health care context. Although the approach to these problems in the book is predominantly philosophical, there are also some studies which take a different, mainly sociological and medical, point of view. Most of the authors have a Scandinavian origin and their essays mirror the current debate on quality of life in northern Europe. The book however also contains contributions by distinguished scholars from the U.K., France, Italy and the Netherlands. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Ethics - Philosophy | Mind & Body - Medical | Public Health |
| Dewey: 362.104 |
| LCCN: 94014441 |
| Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.54" W x 9.58" (1.36 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Questions concerning the notion of quality of life, its definition, and its ap- plications for purposes of assessment and measurement in social and medical contexts, have been widely discussed in Scandinavia during the last ten years. To a great extent this discussion mirrors the international develop- ment in the area. Several methods for the assessment and measurement of quality of life have been borrowed from the UK and the US and then further developed in northern Europe. But there has also been an internal develop- ment. This holds in particular for the social arena, where Scandinavia has had a special tradition both in theory and practice. In this volume an attempt is made to illustrate some aspects of the philo- sophical, and in general theoretical, discussion concerning quality of life in Scandinavia. In addition, some prominent scholars from other parts of Europe, i. e., France, the Netherlands, the UK and Italy, have been invited to contribute. The volume is divided into three sections. The first contains philosophical analyses of the general notion of quality of life and proposes a number of different explications. The second section considers various ap- plications of the notion of quality of life in health care. The papers serve to disentangle some intellectual and ethical problems that stem from these ap- plications. The third section is more practical and focuses on methods of measuring quality of life in medicine and health care. |