How to Create Societies for Human Wellbeing

Through Public Policy and Social Change
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6946-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Wellbeing is a hot topic: governments, psychologists and a thousand self-appointed ‘experts’ all claim to promote it and yet our societies are experiencing record levels of mental distress and ill-health. Why?

Matthew Fisher presents a compelling new perspective on psychological wellbeing informed by evidence on human stress responses. He shows how our mental health is shaped by the social and cultural conditions in which we all live.

Developing arguments and strategies for a society truly committed to wellbeing, this book offers new ways to understand the problems facing modern societies and ways to respond through political and social change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fisher, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Understanding our situation

2. Social intelligence

3. Wellbeing

4. How societies harm wellbeing

5. The political principles of wellbeing

6. The wellbeing society

Über Autor(innen)

Fisher, Matthew
Matthew Fisher is an Australian philosopher and researcher in Public Health at The University of Adelaide. He has published widely on topics of wellbeing, public policy, and social change.

Matthew Fisher is an Australian philosopher and researcher in Public Health at the University of Adelaide. He has published widely on topics of wellbeing, public policy, and social change.