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Book 2018.0

From Body Fuel to Universal Poison

Francesco Buscemi

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Culture Springer Cham 9783319720852 Available

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Other title information: Cultural History of Meat: 1900-The Present

Annotation: This book explores our changing relationship with meat as food. Half storytelling and half historic work, it analyzes the way in which humans have dealt with the idea of eating animals in the Western world, from 1900 to the present.

Identifier: 9783319720852

Status: Available

Book 2014.0

Human Suffering and Quality of Life

Ronald E. Anderson

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Social Springer Dordrecht 9789400776685 Available

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Other title information: Conceptualizing Stories and Statistics

Annotation: This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and measures of societal progress. The scholarship on suffering is made more comprehensible in the book by using nine different conceptual frames that have been used for making sense of suffering. The primary focus of this work is with the last frame, the quality of life frame. Overall, this chapters show how the research on quality of life and well-being can be enhanced by embracing human suffering. ​

Identifier: 9789400776685

Status: Available