Valuing Health - Well-Being, Freedom, and Suffering (Hardcover)

In Valuing Health Daniel M. Hausman provides a philosophically sophisticated overview of generic health measurement that suggests improvements in standard methods and proposes a radical alternative. He shows how to avoid relying on surveys and instead evaluate health states directly. Hausman goes on to tackle the deep problems of evaluation, offering an account of fundamental evaluation that does not presuppose the assignment of values to the properties and consequences of alternatives. After discussing the purposes of generic health measurement, Hausman defends a naturalistic concept of health and its relations to measures such as quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). In examining current health-measurement systems, Valuing Health clarifies their value commitments and the objections to relying on preference surveys to assign values to health states. Relying on an interpretation of liberal political philosophy, Hausman argues that the public value of health states should be understood in terms of the activity limits and suffering that health states impose. Hausman also addresses the moral conundrums that arise when policy-makers attempt to employ the values of health states to estimate the health benefits of alternative policies and to adopt the most cost-effective. He concludes with a general discussion of the difficulties of combining consequentialist and non-consequentialist moral considerations in policy-making.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Population-Level Bioethics
Release date:	April 2015
Authors:	Daniel M. Hausman (Herbert A. Simon and Hilldale Professor)
Dimensions:	236 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-023318-1
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-023318-4
Barcode:	9780190233181

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