Valuing health : well-being, freedom, and suffering /
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. Hau...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Population-level bioethics series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 andconsequences of alternatives. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190233198 0190233192 9780190233204 0190233206 |