ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Well-Being explores diverse conceptualisations of well-being, providing an overview of key issues and drawing attention to current debates and critiques. Taken as a whole, this important work offers new clarification of the widely used notion of well-being, focusing particularly on experiential perspectives.
Bringing together leading authors from around the world, Routledge Handbook of Well-Being reflects on:
- What it is that is experienced by humans that can be called well-being.
- What we know about how to understand it.
- How well-being is manifested in human endeavours through a wide range of disciplines, including the arts.
This comprehensive reference work will provide an authoritative overview for students, practitioners, researchers and policy makers working in or concerned with well-being, health, illness and the relation between all three across a range of disciplines, from sociology, healthcare and economics to philosophy and the creative arts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|86 pages
The human experience of well-being
chapter 4|7 pages
Dwelling in the world with others as mortal beings
part 2|140 pages
How are understandings of well-being developing? Disciplinary and professional perspectives
chapter 22|8 pages
Well-being and self-interest
part 3|98 pages
How is well-being manifest in human life? The aesthetic nature of well-being