| Description |
1 online resource (162 pages) |
| Series |
Medico-Legal Series |
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Medico-legal series.
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| Contents |
Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures ; Acknowledgments ; 1 Introduction ; 2 The Background to the QALY ; The Nature of Economic Evaluation ; Three Types of Economic Evaluation ; Cost-benefit analysis ; Cost-effectiveness analysis |
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Cost-utility analysis and the QALY Including Quality of Life ; Measuring QALYs ; Types of QALYs ; Whose Preferences? ; Patients ; Health professionals ; The general public ; Mixed strategies ; Stated and revealed preferences ; Ethical Underpinning ; 3 Age Discrimination |
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The 'Fair Innings' Argument Eliminating Ageism? ; Maximizing QALYs and Maximizing Utility ; The Prudential Lifespan Approach ; Four Problems for the QALY Approach ; A slippery slope ; Utility and fairness ; Rival foundations ; Social hijacking |
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Saving Lives versus Maximizing QALYs 4 Quality of Life ; QALY Levels and QALY Gains ; Money for the Rich ; The Compensation Objection ; The Equity Objection ; The Need Objection ; The moral arbitrariness of ill health ; Needs, benefits and impartiality ; Sacrifices and complaints |
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Reconciling need and efficiency The 'Safety Net' Objection ; 5 Double Jeopardy ; Random Allocation ; The Equal Value of Lives ; The Veil of Ignorance ; The purpose of the veil ; Slavery as a counter-example ; Rawls's derivation of the difference principle |
| Notes |
Rational Choice and Likelihood |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Singer, Peter
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Richardson, Jeff
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| ISBN |
9781351895071 |
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1351895079 |
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