Routledge Handbook of Well-Being

Contents
List of figures
Contributor bios
Introduction
Part 1: The human experience of well-being: what is well-being? Philosophical and theoretical foundations
	1 Residence, identity and well-being • Paul Gilbert
	2 A sense of well-being: the anthropology of a first-person phenomenology • Nigel Rapport
	3 Cities, well-being, world – a Heideggerian analysis • Robert Mugerauer
	4 Dwelling in the world with others as mortal beings: “well-being” in post-disaster Japanese society • Hirobumi Takenouchi
	5 Well-being and being-well: a Merleau-Pontian perspective on psychosomatic health • Jennifer Bullington
	6 Feminist perspectives on well-being • Charlotte Knowles
	7 Philosophical taxonomies of well-being • Samuel Clark
	8 Dwelling-mobility: an existential theory of well-being • Les Todres and Kathleen T. Galvin
	9 Capabilities, well-being and universalism • Gideon Calder
Part 2: How are understandings of well-being developing? Disciplinary and professional perspectives
	10 Well-being and phenomenology: lifeworld, natural attitude, homeworld and place • David Seamon
	11 Heritage and well-being: therapeutic places, past and present • Timothy Darvill, Vanessa Heaslip, and Kerry Barrass
	12 Disability and ambiguities: technological support in a disaster context • Minae Inahara
	13 The existential situation of the patient: well-being and absence • Stephen Burwood
	14 Ecological health and caring • Helena Dahlberg and Albertine Ranheim
	15 A Jungian contribution to the notion of well-being • Chris Milton
	16 A new stance on quality of life • Lennart Nordenfelt
	17 “What can’t be cured must be endured”: living with Parkinson’s disease • Virginia Eatough
	18 The distribution, determinants and root causes of inequalities in well-being • Eleonora P. Uphoff and Kate E. Pickett
	19 Agencies of well-being • Stephen Wallace
	20 Embodied routes to well-being: horses and young people • Ann Hemingway
	21 Well-being and quality of life in a maternal health context • Julie Jomeen and Colin R. Martin
	22 Well-being and self-interest: personal identity, Parfit, and conflicting attitudes to time in liberal theory and social policy • Steven R. Smith
	23 Values-based practice: at home with our values • K.W.M. (Bill) Fulford and Kathleen T. Galvin
Part 3: How is well-being manifest in human life? The aesthetic nature of well-being
	24 Creativity and aesthetic thinking: toward an aesthetics of well-being • Dorthe Jørgensen
	25 Collaborative drawings: blue-prints of conversation dynamics • Deborah Padfield
	26 Embodied connectivity through the visual and tactual arts • Catherine Lamont-Robinson
	27 Poetry and/as wellness • Monica Prendergast and Carl Leggo
	28 Thirteen ways of looking at a clinic • Jennifer Schulz
	29 Eudaimonic well-being and education • Denis Francesconi
	30 Eighteen kinds of well-being although there may be many more: a conceptual framework illustrated with practical direction for caring • Kathleen T. Galvin and Les Todres
Index