Concepts and measurement of quality of life in health care
By: edited by Lennart Nordenfelt.
Contributors: Nordenfelt, Lennart, 1945-
Series: European studies in philosophy of medicine ;; 1; Philosophy and medicine ;; 47; Philosophy and medicine ;; v. 47.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Quality of life; Health status indicators; Medical ethics
Description: This volume brings together a number of scholarly studies on the definition, assessment and measurement of human quality of life. The book contains fundamental analyses of basic concepts such as welfare, wellbeing, happiness and quality of life itself, but contains also discussions on the application of such concepts for measuring purposes mainly in a health care context.

Although the approach to these problems in the book is predominantly philosophical, there are also some studies which take a different, mainly sociological and medical, point of view. Most of the authors have a Scandinavian origin and their essays mirror the current debate on quality of life in northern Europe. The book, however, also contains contributions by distinguished scholars from the U.K., France, Italy and the Netherlands.
Notes: Includes some essays presented at a symposium held in Linköping, Sweden, in April 1991.
Includes index.