Routledge Handbook of Well-Being

<p>The <em>Routledge</em> <i>Handbook of Well-Being </i>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. </p><p>Bringing together leading authors from around the world <em>Routledge</em> <i>Handbook of Well-Being </i>reflects on:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>What it is that is experienced by humans that can be called well-being. </li> <p> </p> <li>What we know about how to understand it. </li> <p> </p> <li>How well-being is manifested in human endeavours through a wide range of disciplines including the arts.</li> </ul><p>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. </p>