Bibliography
A comprehensive bibliographic database of the critical literature on the theme of “well-being” was created by systematically gathering and classifying relevant sources. The database is organized around three main categories: thematic focus, disciplinary perspective, and methodological approach. This structure allows for an in-depth exploration of the literature, providing a clear and multifaceted overview of the ways in which well-being has been studied across different contexts, disciplines, and research methodologies.
1. Thematic focus
The thematic focus section organizes the literature by its emphasis on physical, psychological, and spiritual/religious well-being, highlighting how these dimensions are explored across the studies.
Physical well-being
Batat, Wided. Food and Experiential Marketing: Pleasure, Wellbeing, and Consumption. Routledge, 2019.
Berridge, Virginia. “Health and Medicine.” The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750-1950: Social Agencies and Institutions, edited by F. M. L. Thompson, vol. III, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 171-242.
Brown, Michael. Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, c. 1760-1850. Manchester University Press, 2012.
Demjén, Zsófia, and Elena Semino. “Using Metaphor in Healthcare: Physical Health.” The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language, Routledge, 2017, pp. 384-399.
Fissel, Mark Charles. “Women in Healing Spaces.” The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing, edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 153-164.
Lane, Joan. A Social History of Medicine: Health, Healing and Disease in England, 1750-1950. Routledge, 2001.
Taavitsainen, Irma, and Turo Hiltunen. Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing Medicine in the 18th Century. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019.
Tannenbaum, Rebecca. Health and Wellness in Colonial America. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Whaley, Leigh. Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Psychological well-being
Addabbo, Tindara. “Gender, Work and Well-Being: Orientations.” Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe, Routledge, 2016, pp. 3-60.
Angner, Erik. “The Evolution of Eupathics: The Historical Roots of Subjective Measures of Wellbeing.” International Journal of Wellbeing, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 4-41.
Bruni, Luigino. L’economia, la felicità e gli altri: Un’indagine su beni e benessere. Città Nuova, 2009.
Conlin, S. E., R. P. Douglass, and S. Ouch. “Discrimination, Subjective Wellbeing, and the Role of Gender: A Mediation Model of LGB Minority Stress.” Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 66, no. 2, 2019, pp. 238-259.
Cooper, Cary, and Susan H. Handry. Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide: Wellbeing in Children and Families. Vol. I, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Christopher, John C. “Situating Psychological Well-Being: Exploring the Cultural Roots of Its Theory and Research.” Journal of Counseling and Development, vol. 77, no. 2, 1999, pp. 141-152.
Gröpel, Peter, and Julius Kuhl. “Work-Life Balance and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Need Fulfilment.” British Journal of Psychology, vol. 100, 2009, pp. 365-375.
Headey, Bruce, and Alex Wearing. Understanding Happiness: A Theory of Subjective Well-Being. Longman Cheshire, 1992.
Hoffmann-Burdzińska, Rutkowska, and Monika Rutkowska. “Work Life Balance as a Factor Influencing Well-Being.” Journal of Positive Management, vol. 6, no. 4, 2015, pp. 87-101.
Kahneman, Daniel, Ed Diener, and Norbert Schwarz. Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology. Russel Sage Foundation, 1999.
Lee, Matthew T., Laura D. Kubzansky, and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Maslow, A. H. Motivation and Personality: Unlocking Your Inner Drive and Understanding Human Behavior. Harper, 1954.
Marshall, Linda, and Charlotte Morris. Taking Wellbeing Forward in Higher Education: Reflections on Theory and Practice. Brighton University Press, 2011.
McGillivray, Mark, and Matthew Clarke. Understanding Human Well-Being. United Nations University Press, 2006.
Navarez, Darcia. Basic Needs, Well-Being and Morality. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Oishi, Shigehiro, et al. “Concepts of Happiness across Time and Cultures.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 20, 2013, pp. 1-19.
Phillips, Rhonda, and Cecilia Wong, editors. Handbook of Community Well-Being Research. Springer, 2017.
Raibley, Jason R. “Happiness Is Not Well-Being.” Journal of Happiness Studies, vol. 13, no. 6, 2012, pp. 1105-1129.
Ryan, Richard M., and Edward L. Deci. “Happiness and Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being.” Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 52, no. 1, 2001, pp. 141-166.
Spratt, Jennifer C. Well-Being, Equity and Education: A Critical Analysis of Policy Discourses of Wellbeing in Schools. Springer, 2017.
Veenhoven, Ruut. “Happiness: Also Known as ‘Life Satisfaction’ and ‘Subjective Well-Being.’” Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research, Springer, 2011, pp. 63-77.
Wright, Katie, and Julie McLeod. Rethinking Youth Well-Being: Critical Perspectives. Springer, 2015.
Spiritual/religious well-being
Atherton, John, et al. The Practices of Happiness: Political Economy, Religion and Well-being. Routledge, 2011.
Koenig, Harold G., Michael E. McCullough, and David B. Larson. Handbook of Religion and Health. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Larson, James S. “The World Health Organization’s Definition of Health: Social versus Spiritual Health.” Social Indicators Research, vol. 38, 1996, pp. 181-192.
Myers, David M. “Religion and Human Flourishing.” The Science of Subjective Well-Being, The Guildford Press, 2008, pp. 323-346.
Peng-Keller, Simon, Fabian Winiger, and Raphael Rauch. The Spirit of Global Health: The World Health Organization and the “Spiritual Dimension” of Health, 1946-2021. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Singh, Ramendra, Yukti Sharma, and Jitender Kumar. “A Road Less Traveled in Nostalgia Marketing: Impact of Spiritual Well-Being on Effects of Nostalgic Advertisements.” Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, vol. 29, no. 3, 2020, pp. 289-307.
Souza, Marian, et al., editors. International Handbook of Education for Spirituality, Care and Well-being. Springer, 2009.
Sumner, L. W. Welfare, Happiness, and Ethics. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Hybrid
Allin, Paul, and David J. Hand. The Global Well-Being of Nations: Meaning, Motive and Measurement. Wiley, 2014.
Bache, Ian, and Karen Scott. The Politics of Wellbeing: Theory, Policy and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Beattie, Alan, et al. Health & Well-Being: A Reader. Macmillan, 1993.
Benko, Zsuzsanna. Leisure, Health and Well-Being: A Holistic Approach. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Bergdolt, Klaus. Wellbeing: A Cultural History of Healthy Living. Polity Press, 2008.
Bretelle-Establet, Florence. Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe and North America. Springer, 2019, Cham.
Cooper, Rachel, Elizabeth Burton, and Cary Cooper. Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide: Wellbeing and the Environment. Vol. II, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Costache, Doru, et al. Well-being, Personal Wholeness and the Social Fabric. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Diener, Ed, Shigehiro Oishi, and Louis Tay, editors. Handbook of Well-Being. DEF Publishers, 2018.
Dodge, Rachel, Annette Daly, Jan Huyton, and Lalage D. Sanders. “The Challenge of Defining Wellbeing.” International Journal of Wellbeing, vol. 2, no. 3, 2012, pp. 222–235.
Estes, Richard J., and Joseph M. Sirgy. The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History. Springer, 2017.
Estes, Richard J., and M. Joseph Sirgy. Advances in Human Well-Being: Toward a Better World. Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd., 2018.
Fischer, Edward F. The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing. Stanford University Press, 2014.
Fletcher, Guy. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-being. Routledge, 2016.
Frijters, Paul, and Christian Krekel. “A Brief History.” A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making: History, Theory, Measurement, Implementation, and Examples, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 6–17.
Gálvez, Lina. Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge, 2016.
Geltner, G. Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Well-being in Late Medieval Italy. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Gillam, Tony. Creativity, Well-being and Mental Health Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Glatzer, Wolfgang. History and Politics of Well-Being in Europe. Springer, 2019.
Graham, Carol. The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being. Brookings Institution Press, 2011, Washington D.C.
Hämäläinen, Timo J., and Juliet Michaelson. Well-being and Beyond: Broadening the Public and Policy Discourse. Edward Elgar, 2014.
Hintikka, Marianna. “The Well-Being of the Body as Metaphor for Society and Mind: A Corpus-Based Comparison of Early Modern and Present-Day English.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, vol. 115, no. 3, 2014, pp. 361–364.
Holder, Mark. “The Contribution of Food Consumption to Well-Being.” Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, vol. 74, Suppl. 2, 2019, pp. 44–52.
Huppert, Felicia A., and Cary Cooper. Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide: Interventions and Policies to Enhance Wellbeing. Vol. VI, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Huseyin, Naci, and John P. Ioannidis. “Evaluation of Wellness Determinants and Interventions by Citizen Scientists.” JAMA, vol. 314, no. 2, 2015, pp. 121–122.
Kirkwood, Thomas B. L., and Cary Cooper. Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide: Wellbeing in Later Life. Vol. IV, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Kumar, Pushpam, and B. Sudhakara Reddy. Ecology and Human Well-Being. Sage Publications India, 2007.
Le, Quynh. Health and Well-Being: A Social and Cultural Perspective: Public Health in the 21st Century. Nova Science Publishers, 2011.
Lee, Matthew T., Laura D. Kubzansky, and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Lindemann, Mary. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2010, Cambridge.
Lomas, Tim, Brendan W. Case, Flynn J. Cratty, and Tyler J. VanderWeele. “A Global History of Happiness.” International Journal of Wellbeing, vol. 11, no. 4, 2021, pp. 68–87.
McDaid, David, and Cary Cooper. Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide: Economics of Wellbeing. Vol. V, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
McMahon, Darrin M. “The Pursuit of Happiness in History.” The Science of Subjective Well-Being, The Guildford Press, 2008, pp. 80-96.
Mikdashi, Zuhayr. The Evolution of Economic Well-being: Progress-Driven Economic Policies in the Era of Globalization. Routledge, 2019.
Miller, Ian. Medical History. Palgrave, 2018.
Pacione, Michael. “Urban Environmental Quality and Human Well-Being – A Social Geographical Perspective.” Landscape and Urban Planning, vol. 65, 2003, pp. 19–30.
Pandit, V. “Prosperity and Happiness.” Ethics, Economics and Social Institutions, Springer, 2016, pp. 73–89, Singapore.
Pennarola, Cristina, Vanda Polese, and Sole Alba Zollo. Specialized Discourses of Well-Being and Human Development: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives. L’Harmattan, 2021.
Roberts, Lin, et al. The Nature of Well-Being. Department of Conservation, New Zealand Government, 2015.
Robertson, Ritchie. The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790. Harper, 2020.
Sirgy, Joseph M., and Dong Jin Lee. “Well-Being Marketing: An Ethical Business Philosophy for Consumer Goods Firms.” Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 77, no. 4, 2007.
Smith, Melanie K., and Anya Diekmann. “Tourism and Well-Being.” Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 66, 2017, pp. 1–13.
Steptoe, Andrew. “Happiness and Health.” Annual Review of Public Health, vol. 40, no. 1, 2019, pp. 339–359.
Tay, Dennis. “Using Metaphor in Healthcare: Mental Health.” The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language, edited by Zsófia Demjén and Elena Semino, Routledge, 2017, pp. 371–384.
Talbott, William J. Human Rights and Human Well-Being. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Thin, Neil, Margarita Tarragona, Paul Wong, et al. “Book Review: The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History.” International Journal of Wellbeing, vol. 7, no. 1, 2017, pp. 84–92.
VanderWeele, Tyler J., and Tim Lomas. “Terminology and the Well-Being Literature.” Affective Science, vol. 4, 2022, pp. 36–40.
Veenhoven, Ruut. “Happiness: History of the Concept.” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 10, 2015, pp. 521–525.
Vernon, Mark. Well-being. Acumen, 2010.
Wassell, Emily, and Rachel Dodge. “A Multidisciplinary Framework for Measuring and Improving Wellbeing.” International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research, vol. 21, 2015, pp. 91–107.
2. Disciplinary perspective
The disciplinary perspective section categorizes the literature by the academic fields it engages with—such as medical, social, economic, legal/political, education, gender, linguistics, and literature—highlighting how well-being is approached in diverse scholarly contexts.
Medical
Bergdolt, Klaus. Wellbeing: A Cultural History of Healthy Living. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008.
Berridge, Virginia. “Health and Medicine.” The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750-1950: Social Agencies and Institutions, edited by F. K. L. Thompson, vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 171–242.
Brown, Michael. Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, c. 1760-1850. Manchester University Press, 2012.
Gillam, Tony. Creativity, Well-Being and Mental Health Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Lane, Joan. A Social History of Medicine: Health, Healing and Disease in England, 1750-1950. Routledge, 2001.
Lindemann, Mary. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Miller, Ian. Medical History. Palgrave, 2018.
Steptoe, Andrew. “Happiness and Health.” Annual Review of Public Health, vol. 40, no. 1, 2019, pp. 339–359.
Whaley, Leigh. Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Social
Benko, Zsuzsanna. Leisure, Health and Well-Being: A Holistic Approach. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Chen, Peter, and Cary Cooper. Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide: Work and Wellbeing. Vol. III, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Cooper, Cary, and Susan H. Handry. Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide: Wellbeing in Children and Families. Vol. I, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Cooper, Rachel, Elizabeth Burton, and Cary Cooper. Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide: Wellbeing and the Environment. Vol. II, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Fischer, Edward F. The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity and the Anthropology of Wellbeing. Stanford University Press, 2014.
Gröpel, Peter, and Julius Kuhl. “Work-Life Balance and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Need Fulfilment.” British Journal of Psychology, vol. 100, 2009, pp. 365–375.
Headey, Bruce, and Alex Wearing. Understanding Happiness: A Theory of Subjective Well-Being. Longman Cheshire, 1992.
Hoffmann-Burdzinska, Rutkowska Monika. “Work Life Balance as a Factor Influencing Well-Being.” Journal of Positive Management, vol. 6, no. 4, 2015, pp. 87–101.
Kirkwood, Thomas B. L., and Cary Cooper. Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide: Wellbeing in Later Life. Vol. IV, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Le, Quynh. Health and Well-Being: A Social and Cultural Perspective: Public Health in the 21st Century. Nova Science Publishers, 2011.
Naci, Huseyin, and John P. Ioannidis. “Evaluation of Wellness Determinants and Interventions by Citizen Scientists.” JAMA, vol. 314, no. 2, 2015, pp. 121-122.
Navarez, Darcia. Basic Needs, Well-Being and Morality. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Pacione, Michael. “Urban Environmental Quality and Human Well-Being – A Social Geographical Perspective.” Landscape and Urban Planning, vol. 65, 2003, pp. 19-30.
Veenhoven, Ruut. “Happiness: Also Known as ‘Life Satisfaction’ and ‘Subjective Well-Being’.” Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research, Springer, 2011, pp. 63-77.
Economic
Batat, Wided. Food and Experiential Marketing: Pleasure, Wellbeing, and Consumption. Routledge, 2019.
Bruni, Luigino. L’economia, la felicità e gli altri: un’indagine su beni e benessere. Città Nuova, 2009.
Graham, Carol. The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well Being. Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
Huppert, Felicia A., and Cary Cooper. Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide: Interventions and Policies to Enhance Wellbeing. Vol. VI, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
McDaid, David, and Cary Cooper. Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide: Economics of Wellbeing. Vol. V, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
McGillivray, Mark, and Matthew Clarke. Understanding Human Well-Being. United Nations University Press, 2006.
Mikdashi, Zuhayr. The Evolution of Economic Well-Being: Progress-Driven Economic Policies in the Era of Globalization. Routledge, 2019.
Pandit, V. “Prosperity and Happiness.” Ethics, Economics and Social Institutions, Springer, 2016, pp. 73–89.
Singh, Ramendra, Yukti Sharma, and Jitender Kumar. “A Road Less Traveled in Nostalgia Marketing: Impact of Spiritual Well-Being on Effects of Nostalgic Advertisements.” Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, vol. 29, no. 3, 2020, pp. 289–307.
Sirgy, Joseph M., and Dong Jin Lee. “Well-Being Marketing: An Ethical Business Philosophy for Consumer Goods Firms.” Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 77, no. 4, 2007, pp. 377–403.
Sumner, L. W. Welfare, Happiness, and Ethics. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Legal/political
Angner, Erik. “The Evolution of Eupathics: The Historical Roots of Subjective Measures of Wellbeing.” International Journal of Wellbeing, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 4–41.
Glatzer, Wolfgang. History and Politics of Well-Being in Europe. Springer, 2019.
Huppert, Felicia A., and Cary Cooper. Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide: Interventions and Policies to Enhance Wellbeing. Vol. VI, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Talbott, William J. Human Rights and Human Well-Being. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Vernon, Mark. Well-Being. Acumen, 2010.
Education
Marshall, Linda, and Charlotte Morris. Taking Wellbeing Forward in Higher Education: Reflections on Theory and Practice. Brighton University Press, 2011.
Souza, Marian, et al., editors. International Handbook of Education for Spirituality, Care and Well-Being. Springer, 2009
Spratt, Jennifer C. Well-Being, Equity and Education: A Critical Analysis of Policy Discourses of Wellbeing in Schools. Springer, 2017.
Gender
Addabbo, Tindara. “Gender, Work and Well-Being: Orientations.” Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe, Routledge, 2016, pp. 3–60.
Conlin, S. E., R. P. Douglass, and S. Ouch. “Discrimination, Subjective Wellbeing, and the Role of Gender: A Mediation Model of LGB Minority Stress.” Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 66, no. 2, 2019, pp. 238–259.
Gálvez, Lina. Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge, 2016.
Linguistics
Demjén, Zsófia, and Elena Semino. “Using Metaphor in Healthcare: Physical Health.” The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language, Routledge, 2017, pp. 384–399.
Hintikka, Marianna. “The Well-Being of the Body as Metaphor for Society and Mind: A Corpus-Based Comparison of Early Modern and Present-Day English.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, vol. 115, no. 3, 2014, pp. 361–364.
Pennarola, Cristina, Vanda Polese, and Sole Alba Zollo. Specialized Discourses of Well-being and Human Development: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives. Torino and Paris: L’Harmattan, 2021.
Taavitsainen, Irma, and Turo Hiltunen. Late Modern English Medical Texts. Writing Medicine in the 18th Century. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019.
Tay, Dennis. “Using Metaphor in Healthcare: Mental Health.” The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language, Routledge, 2017, pp. 371–384.
VanderWeele, Tyler J., and Tim Lomas. “Terminology and the Well-Being Literature.” Affective Science, vol. 4, 2022, pp. 36–40.
Wassell, Emily, and Rachel Dodge. “A Multidisciplinary Framework for Measuring and Improving Wellbeing.” International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research, vol. 21, 2015, pp. 91–107.
Wright, Katie, and Julie McLeod. Rethinking Youth Well-Being: Critical Perspectives. Springer, 2015.
Literature
Bugliani, Paolo, and Tommaso Maria Rossi. “Alla ricerca del Ben-Essere: Luoghi e paradisi della salute nella tradizione artistico-letteraria.” Anglistica Pisana, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2021.
Hybrid
Allin, Paul, and David J. Hand. The Global Well-Being of Nations: Meaning, Motive and Measurement. Wiley, 2014.
Apaolaza, Vanessa, et al. “Feel Good? The Relationship between Organic Food Consumption, Health Concern and Subjective Well-Being.” Food and Quality Preference, vol. 63, 2018, pp. 51–62.
Atherton, John, et al. The Practices of Happiness: Political Economy, Religion and Well-Being. Routledge, 2011.
Bache, Ian, and Karen Scott. The Politics of Wellbeing: Theory, Policy and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Banu, Nasrin, and Shahab Fazal. Livelihood and Wellbeing in the Urban Fringe. Springer, 2016.
Beattie, Alan, et al., editors. Health & Well-Being: A Reader. Macmillan, 1993.
Bretelle-Establet, Florence. Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe and North America. Springer, 2019.
Braun, Virginia, and Victoria Clarke. “What Can ‘Thematic Analysis’ Offer Health and Well-Being Researchers?” 2014.
Christopher, John C. “Situating Psychological Well-Being: Exploring the Cultural Roots of Its Theory and Research.” Journal of Counseling and Development, vol. 77, no. 2, 1999, pp. 141–152.
Costache, Doru, et al. Well-Being, Personal Wholeness and the Social Fabric. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Diener, Ed, Shigehiro Oishi, and Louis Tay. Handbook of Well-Being. DEF Publishers, 2018.
Dodge, Rachel, Annette Daly, Jan Huyton, and Lalage D. Sanders. “The Challenge of Defining Wellbeing.” International Journal of Wellbeing, vol. 2, no. 3, 2012, pp. 222–235.
Estes, Richard J., and Joseph M. Sirgy. The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History. Springer, 2017.
Estes, Richard J., and M. Joseph Sirgy. Advances in Human Well-Being: Toward a Better World. Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd., 2018.
Fletcher, Guy, editor. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being. Routledge, 2016.
Frijters, Paul, and Christian Krekel. “A Brief History.” A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making: History, Theory, Measurement, Implementation, and Examples, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 6–17.
Geltner, G. Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Well-Being in Late Medieval Italy. University of Philadelphia Press, 2019.
Hämäläinen, Timo J., and Juliet Michaelson. Well-Being and Beyond: Broadening the Public and Policy Discourse. Edward Elgar, 2014.
Holder, Mark. “The Contribution of Food Consumption to Well-Being.” Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, vol. 74, Suppl. 2, 2019, pp. 44–52.
Kahneman, Daniel, Ed Diener, and Norbert Schwarz, editors. Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology. Russel Sage Foundation, 1999.
Knoppers, Laura L. “Women in Healing Spaces.” The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing, edited by Michael E. Fissel, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 153–164.
Koenig, H. G., M. E. McCullough, and D. B. Larson. Handbook of Religion and Health. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Kumar, Pushpam, and B. Sudhakara Reddy. Ecology and Human Well-Being. Sage Publications India, 2007.
Larson, James S. “The World Health Organization’s Definition of Health: Social versus Spiritual Health.” Social Indicators Research, vol. 38, 1996, pp. 181–192.
Lee, Matthew T., Laura D. Kubzansky, and Tyler J. VanderWeele. Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Lomas, Tim, Brendan W. Case, Flynn J. Cratty, and Tyler J. VanderWeele. “A Global History of Happiness.” International Journal of Wellbeing, vol. 11, no. 4, 2021, pp. 68–87.
Maslow, A. H. Motivation and Personality: Unlocking Your Inner Drive and Understanding Human Behavior. Harper, 1954.
McMahon, Darrin M. “The Pursuit of Happiness in History.” The Science of Subjective Well-Being, The Guilford Press, 2008, pp. 80–96.
Myers, David M. “Religion and Human Flourishing.” The Science of Subjective Well-Being, The Guilford Press, 2008, pp. 323–346.
Oishi, Shigehiro, et al. “Concepts of Happiness across Time and Cultures.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 20, 2013, pp. 1-19.
Peng-Keller, Simon, Fabian Winiger, and Raphael Rauch. The Spirit of Global Health: The World Health Organization and the ‘Spiritual Dimension’ of Health, 1946-2021. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Phillips, Rhonda, and Cecilia Wong, editors. Handbook of Community Well-Being Research. Springer, 2017.
Raibley, Jason R. “Happiness Is Not Well-Being.” Journal of Happiness Studies, vol. 13, no. 6, 2012, pp. 1105–1129.
Roberts, Lin, et al. The Nature of Well-Being. Department of Conservation, New Zealand Government, 2015.
Robertson, Ritchie. The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790. Harper, 2020.
Ryan, Richard M., and Edward L. Deci. “Happiness and Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being.” Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 52, no. 1, 2001, pp. 141-166.
Smith, Melanie K., and Anya Diekmann. “Tourism and Well-Being.” Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 66, 2017, pp. 1-13.
Tannenbaum, Rebecca. Health and Wellness in Colonial America. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Thin, Neil, Margarita Tarragona, Paul Wong, et al. “Book Review: The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History.” International Journal of Wellbeing, vol. 7, no. 1, 2017, pp. 84-92.
Veenhoven, Ruut. “Happiness: History of the Concept.” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 10, 2015, pp. 521–525.
3. Methodological approach
The methodological approach section distinguishes between historical analyses and theoretical-descriptive studies, showing how well-being is examined in relation to its historical development and conceptual interpretation.
Historical
Addabbo, Tindara. “Gender, Work and Well-being: Orientations.” Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-being in Modern Europe, edited by Tindara Addabbo et al., Routledge, 2016, pp. 3–60.
Angner, Erik. “The Evolution of Eupathics: The Historical Roots of Subjective Measures of Wellbeing.” International Journal of Wellbeing, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 4–41.
Benko, Zsuzsanna. Leisure, Health and Well-being: A Holistic Approach. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Bergdolt, Klaus. Wellbeing: A Cultural History of Healthy Living. Polity Press, 2008.
Berridge, Virginia. “Health and Medicine.” The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750–1950: Social Agencies and Institutions, edited by F. K. L. Thompson, vol. III, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 171–242.
Bretelle-Establet, Florence, editor. Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe and North America. Springer, 2019.
Brown, Michael. Performing Medicine: Medical Culture and Identity in Provincial England, c. 1760–1850. Manchester University Press, 2012.
Bruni, Luigino. L’economia, la felicità e gli altri: Un’indagine su beni e benessere. Città Nuova, 2009.
Bugliani, Paolo, and Tommaso Maria Rossi. “Alla ricerca del Ben-Essere: luoghi e paradisi della salute nella tradizione artistico-letteraria.” Anglistica Pisana, vol. 16, nos. 1–2, 2021.
Christopher, John C. “Situating Psychological Well-being: Exploring the Cultural Roots of Its Theory and Research.” Journal of Counseling and Development, vol. 77, no. 2, 1999, pp. 141–152.
Costache, Doru, et al. Well-being, Personal Wholeness and the Social Fabric. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Dodge, Rachel, et al. “The Challenge of Defining Wellbeing.” International Journal of Wellbeing, vol. 2, no. 3, 2012, pp. 222–235.
Estes, Richard J., and Joseph M. Sirgy, editors. The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History. Springer, 2017.
Estes, Richard J., and M. Joseph Sirgy. Advances in Human Well-being: Toward a Better World. Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd., 2018.
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