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Personalized medicine and health equity: overcoming cost barriers and ethical challenges. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Equity Health
Francisco KKY   +6 more
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Relative Utilitarianism [PDF]

open access: possibleEconometrica, 1999
Summary: In a framework of preferences over lotteries, we show that an axiom system consisting of weakened versions of Arrow's axioms has a unique solution. `Relative utilitarianism' consists of first normalizing individual von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities between 0 and 1 and then summing them.
Amrita Dhillon
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Harsanyi’s ‘Utilitarian Theorem’ and Utilitarianism

Noûs, 2002
1.1 In 1955, John Harsanyi proved a remarkable theorem:' Suppose n agents satisfy the assumptions of von Neumann/Morgenstern (1947) expected utility theory, and so does the group as a whole (or an observer). Suppose that, if each member of the group prefers option a to b, then so does the group, or the observer (Pareto condition).
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Utilitarianism

2020
Abstract While Hutcheson and Hume present a utilitarian outlook, Mill and Sidgwick offer a systematic defence of it. They argue: (1) Utilitarianism makes sense of ordinary moral beliefs, so that anyone who takes these beliefs seriously has good reason to be a utilitarian.
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Utilitarian alternatives to Act Utilitarianism

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 1997
One problem for any utilitarian alternative to act utilitarianism, such as rule utilitarianism, is the feeling that act utilitarianism is the most natural form of utilitarianism. Other forms seen unmotivated, inconsistent, or irrational. This argument is found in Smart, Foot and Slote. It turns on the assumption that utilitarianism must be motivated by
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