Routledge Handbook of Well-Being

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.

Kathleen T. Galvin is Professor of Nursing Practice, School of Health Sciences at the University of Brighton, UK.

Part I: The Human Experience of Wellbeing What is wellbeing? Philosophical and theoretical foundations Chapter 1 Paul Gilbert Residence, Identity and Wellbeing Chapter 2 Nigel Rapport A Sense of Well-Being: The Anthropology of a First-Person Phenomenology Chapter 3 Robert Mugerauer Cities, Wellbeing, World- A Heideggarian Analysis Chapter 4 Hirobumi Takenouchi Dwelling in the world with others as mortal beings: 'Well-being' in post-disaster Japanese Society Chapter 5 Jennifer Bullington Well-being and Being-well: A Merleau-Pontian perspective on Psychosomatic Health Chapter 6 Charlotte Knowles Feminist Approaches to Well-being Chapter 7 Samuel Clark Philosophical Taxonomies of Well-being Chapter 8 Les Todres and Kathleen T. Galvin Dwelling- Mobility: An Existential Theory of Well-being Chapter 9 Gideon Calder Capabilities, Well-being and Universalism. Part II: How are understandings of well-being developing? Disciplinary and professional perspectives Chapter 10 David Seamon Well-being and phenomenology: Lifeworld, Natural Attitude, Homeworld and Place Chapter 11 Timothy Darvill, Vanessa Heaslip, Kerry Barras Heritage and Well-being: Therapeutic places, past and present Chapter 12 Minae Inahara Disability and Ambiguities: Technological Support in a Disaster Context Chapter 13 Stephen Burwood The Existential situation of the patient: Well-being and Absence Chapter 14 Karin Dahlberg, Albertine Ranheim, Helena Dahlberg Ecological health and caring Chapter 15 Chris Milton A Jungian contribution to the notion of well-being Chapter 16 Lennart Nordenfeldt A new stance on Quality of Life Chapter 17 Virgina Eatough "What can't be cured must be endured": Living with Parkinson's disease. Chapter 18 Eleonora P. Uphoff & Kate E. Pickett The Distribution, Determinants and Root Causes of Inequalities in Well-being Chapter 19 Stephen Wallace Agencies of Well--being Chapter 20 Ann Hemingway Embodied Routes to Well-being: Horses and Young People Chapter 21 Julie Jomeen & Colin Martin Well-being and quality of life in maternal care context Chapter 22 Steven Smith Well-Being and Self-Interest: Personal Identity, Parfit, and Conflicting Attitudes to Time in Liberal Theory and Social Policy Chapter 23 KMW (Bill) Fulford & Kathleen T. Galvin Values-based Practice: at Home with our Values Part III: How is Well-being manifest in human life? The Aesthetic of Well-being Chapter 24 Dorthe Jorgensen Creativity and Aesthetic Thinking: Towards an Aesthetics of Well-being Chapter 25 Deborah Padfield Collaborative drawings: blue-prints of conversation dynamics: The role of images and image-making processes to improve communication and the wellbeing of pain patients and clinicians in a series of art workshops at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Chapter 26 Catherine Lamont-Robinson Embodied connectivity through the Visual and Tactual arts. Chapter 27 Monica Prendergast and Carl Leggo Poetry and/ as Wellness Chapter 28 Jennifer Schulz Thirteen ways of looking at a clinic Chapter 29 Denis Francesconi Eudaimonic Well-being and Education Chapter 30 Kathleen T. Galvin & Les Todres Eighteen Kinds of well-being but there may be many more: A conceptual Framework that provides direction for Caring