Routledge Handbook of Well-Being

Description

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.