Concepts and measurement of quality of life in health care /
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 applicatio...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[1994]
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| Series: | European studies in philosophy of medicine ;
1. Philosophy and medicine ; v. 47. |
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Table of Contents:
- Aristotle on the good life and quality of life / Erik Ostenfeld
- Towards a theory of happiness : a subjectivist notion of quality of life / Lennart Nordenfelt
- Happiness, life and quality of life : a commentary of Nordenfelt's 'Towards a theory of happiness' / Paolo Cattorini and Roberto Mordacci
- On need and quality of life / Per-Erik Liss
- Needs, right and resources in quality of life research / Torbjørn Moum
- Does self-deception enhance the quality of life? / Siri Naess
- Quality of life : why now? a sociological view / Michael Bury
- Reflections on the notion of 'quality of life' / Anne Faot-Largeault
- (cont) Changing preferences : conceptual problems in comparing health-related quality of life / Peter Sandøa and Klemens Kappel
- Quality of life and handicapped people / A.W. Musschenga
- The plausability of quality-of-life measures in different domains of health care / Ray Fitzpatrick and Gary Albrecht
- Analyzing changes in health-related quality of life / Stefan Björk and Pontus Roos
- On general and need-related quality of life / Anton Aggernaes
- A psychiatric and interactional perspective on quality of life / Madis Kayandi