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Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky, Esq., During the Reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George I. - Including, Also, the True Secret History of the Rise, Promotions, &c. of the English and Scots Nobility, Officers, Civil, Military, Nava (Hardcover)
John Macky
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R990
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The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying.
We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should
be allocated. But the goods that health care produces are of very
different kinds. Health care can extend the lives of children and
of older people. It can make it possible for a person to walk, when
without health care that person would be permanently bedridden; and
it can reduce the pain and distress of people who are terminally
ill. How can we possibly decide which of these - and many more -
diverse achievements of health care are more deserving than others?
We need a common unit by which we might be able to measure these
very different goods. The Quality-Adjusted Life Year, or QALY, is
the most developed proposal for such a unit of measure. In this
book a distinguished team of ethicists and economists defend the
core of the QALY proposal: that health care resources should be
used so as to produce more years of life, of the highest possible
quality. This leads to a discussion of such fundamental questions
as whether all lives are of equal value, whether health care should
be allocated on the basis of need and whether the QALY approach
incorporates an adequate account of fairness or justice. The result
is the most thorough account yet of the ethical issues raised by
the use of the QALY as a basis for allocating health care
resources.
The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying.
We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should
be allocated. But the goods that health care produces are of very
different kinds. Health care can extend the lives of children and
of older people. It can make it possible for a person to walk, when
without health care that person would be permanently bedridden; and
it can reduce the pain and distress of people who are terminally
ill. How can we possibly decide which of these - and many more -
diverse achievements of health care are more deserving than others?
We need a common unit by which we might be able to measure these
very different goods. The Quality-Adjusted Life Year, or QALY, is
the most developed proposal for such a unit of measure. In this
book a distinguished team of ethicists and economists defend the
core of the QALY proposal: that health care resources should be
used so as to produce more years of life, of the highest possible
quality. This leads to a discussion of such fundamental questions
as whether all lives are of equal value, whether health care should
be allocated on the basis of need and whether the QALY approach
incorporates an adequate account of fairness or justice. The result
is the most thorough account yet of the ethical issues raised by
the use of the QALY as a basis for allocating health care
resources.
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Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky, Esq., During the Reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George I. - Including, Also, the True Secret History of the Rise, Promotions, &c. of the English and Scots Nobility, Officers, Civil, Military, Nava (Paperback)
John Macky
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R758
Discovery Miles 7 580
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