Measuring Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Social Sciences and the Humanities, edited by Matthew Lee, Laura Kubzansky, and Tyler VanderWeele, is easily one of the most creative syntheses of past, present, and future research on well-being that exists. It is not often that a panel of such original and cooperative scholars—from disciplines such as psychology, psychiatry, philosophy, theology, economics, public health, political
science, and policy—can be assembled. If you have an inquisitive mind and a creative motivation, this is a great read.
Matthew T. Lee is Director of Empirical Research at the Human Flourishing Program in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University and coauthor of The Heart of Religion (Oxford University Press). His research explores pathways to human flourishing, benevolent service to others, and the integration of social science and the humanities.
Laura D. Kubzansky is Lee Kum Kee Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and co-Director of the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has published extensively on the role of psychological and social factors in health. She has served on the leadership team for multiple training programs for junior scholars and is PI or co-investigator on numerous grants.
Tyler J. VanderWeele is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Director of the Human Flourishing Program, and Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Religion, and Spirituality at Harvard University. His research concerns methodology for distinguishing between association and causation in observational studies, and his empirical research spans
psychiatric, perinatal, and social epidemiology; the science of happiness and flourishing; and the study of religion and health.