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Synthetic Life and the Value of Life [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021 If humans eventually attain the ability to create new life forms, how will it affect the value of life? This is one of several questions that can be sources of concern when discussing synthetic life, but is the concern justified? In an attempt to answer this question, I have analyzed some possible reasons why an ability to create synthetic life would ...
Erik Persson
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Commentary: The value of life course epidemiology in low- and middle-income countries: an ageing perspective [PDF]
Int J Epidemiol, 2016 doi: 10.1093/ije/dyw109 Commentary: The value of life course epidemiology in lowand middle-income countries: an ageing perspective Stephen M Tollman,* Shane A Norris and Lisa F Berkman MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit ...
S. Tollman, S. Norris, L. Berkman
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Values of Life: 40 years of The Value of Life
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare EthicsAbstractThis special section brings together international scholars celebrating the 40th anniversary of John Harris’ book, The Value of Life: An Introduction to Medical Ethics (1985), and John Harris and his contributions to the field of bioethics more generally.
Tuija Takala +3 more
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Deciphering death: a commentary on Gompertz (1825) ‘On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies’ [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2015 In 1825, the actuary Benjamin Gompertz read a paper, ‘On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies’, to the Royal Society in which he showed that over much of the
T. Kirkwood
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Foods, 2022 Ovalbumin (OVA) is a common carrier with high efficiency to deliver flavonoids. The aim of this study was to investigate the interaction mechanism of OVA and four flavonoids (quercetin (Que), myricetin (Myri), isorhamnetin (Ish), and kaempferol (Kaem ...
Wenna Zhou +5 more
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European Journal of Health Economics, 2021 Cost-effective threshold (CET) is essential for health technology assessment and decision-making based on health economic evaluations. Recently, it has been argued that the commonly used once and three times of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita ...
Dan Cai +5 more
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Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi, 2021 Background Global burden of COVID-19 has not been well studied, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and value of statistical life (VSL) metrics were therefore proposed to quantify its impacts on health and economic loss globally.
Chiao-Yun Fan +6 more
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Toxics, 2021 Extensive use and disposal of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), a primary constituent of explosives, pollutes the environment and causes severe damage to human health.
Miao Xu +8 more
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Valuing life over the life cycle [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics, 2022 Adjusting the valuation of life along the (i) person-specific (age, health, wealth) and (ii) mortality risk-specific (beneficial or detrimental, temporary or permanent changes) dimensions is relevant in prioritizing healthcare interventions. These adjustments are provided by solving a life cycle model of consumption, leisure and health choices and the ...
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Optimal Management of an Epidemic: Lockdown, Vaccine and Value of Life
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2020 We study a dynamic macro model to capture the trade-off between policies that simultaneously decrease output and the rate of infection transmission. We find that, in many cases, optimal policies require sharp initial decreases in employment followed by a
Carlos Garriga +2 more
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