How To Create Societies for Human Wellbeing
Through Public Policy and Social Change
By Matthew Fisher
Published
Oct 15, 2024Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1447369479Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Oct 15, 2024Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1447369462Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Oct 15, 2024Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1447369486Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Oct 15, 2024Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1447369486Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy Press
How To Create Societies for Human Wellbeing
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.
"Timely and thoughtfully argued...guides our thinking to the realisation that governments and the whole of society need to protect the public interest to fight the juggernaut of private interests in a market economy." Fiona Stanley, Telethon Kids Institute and University of Western Australia
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.
1. Understanding our Situation
2. Social Intelligence
3. Wellbeing
4. How Societies Harm Wellbeing
5. The Political Principles of Wellbeing
6. The Wellbeing Society
