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The Value of Life and the Value of Life Extension
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006Abstract: Recent developments in aging research have added new urgency to the bioethical debate concerning life and death issues, the value of life, and the reasonable limits of medicine. This paper analyzes the basic structures of the liberal and conservative components of this debate, showing that there has hitherto been inadequate analysis on both
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Bioethics, 1997
In Life’s Dominion Dworkin aims at defusing the controversy about abortion and euthanasia by redefining its terms. Basically it is not a dispute about the right to life, but about its value. Liberals should grant that human life has not only a personal, but also an intrinsic value; conservatives should accept the principle of toleration which requires ...
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In Life’s Dominion Dworkin aims at defusing the controversy about abortion and euthanasia by redefining its terms. Basically it is not a dispute about the right to life, but about its value. Liberals should grant that human life has not only a personal, but also an intrinsic value; conservatives should accept the principle of toleration which requires ...
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1987
It is not identified lives but statistical lives — the reduction of some mortal hazard to some part of the population — whose value is our topic. But the prolongation of individual lives is getting increased attention, and it deserves some of ours before we get on with the main business.
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It is not identified lives but statistical lives — the reduction of some mortal hazard to some part of the population — whose value is our topic. But the prolongation of individual lives is getting increased attention, and it deserves some of ours before we get on with the main business.
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The value of life and the value of population
Journal of Population Economics, 1996"This paper first distinguishes structured and unstructured approaches to valuing life. The unstructured approach bases its valuations on people's raw preferences, whereas the structured approach imposes a theoretical framework about the structure of value. The paper recommends the structured approach.
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On measuring the value of life
Economics Letters, 1995zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Prasanta K. Pattanaik +2 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 The tradeoff between money and small risks of death is the value of statistical life (VSL), which has become the standard for assessing the benefits of risk and environmental regulations. Labor market estimates of the VSL average about $7 million. This valuation amount rises with age and then declines, closely tracking the pattern of consumption over ...
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1993
Morally speaking, there is something deeply repellent about the counting of the cost where the benefit in question is a human life. Morally speaking, there is something absolutely unacceptable about the compressing of a human life into the monetary units of the economic market. A life is an infinite treasure that cannot, must not command a market value.
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Morally speaking, there is something deeply repellent about the counting of the cost where the benefit in question is a human life. Morally speaking, there is something absolutely unacceptable about the compressing of a human life into the monetary units of the economic market. A life is an infinite treasure that cannot, must not command a market value.
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2011
This book chapter is not available through ChesterRep. ; This book chapter explores the concept of the value of life.
Baldwin, Moyra A., Greenwood, Joanne
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This book chapter is not available through ChesterRep. ; This book chapter explores the concept of the value of life.
Baldwin, Moyra A., Greenwood, Joanne
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The Value of a Statistical Life
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019The value of a statistical life (VSL) is the local tradeoff rate between fatality risk and money. When the tradeoff values are derived from choices in market contexts the VSL serves as both a measure of the population’s willingness to pay for risk reduction and the marginal cost of enhancing safety.
Thomas J. Kniesner +3 more
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