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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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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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Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2001
It is possible and necessary to compare stretches of human life with other goods, such as the good of conserving resources for others. A minute of human life is not of infinite value; all else being equal, a minute of life is less valuable than 10 years of the same life.
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It is possible and necessary to compare stretches of human life with other goods, such as the good of conserving resources for others. A minute of human life is not of infinite value; all else being equal, a minute of life is less valuable than 10 years of the same life.
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Ethics, 1988
KIE: The Epicurean argument that death cannot be a misfortune for the person who dies because, when death occurs, there is no longer a person to whom any misfortune can befall, fails to establish the conclusions which its defenders have sought from it. Beginning with the premise that death can be bad, either for the victim or in quasi-impersonal terms,
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KIE: The Epicurean argument that death cannot be a misfortune for the person who dies because, when death occurs, there is no longer a person to whom any misfortune can befall, fails to establish the conclusions which its defenders have sought from it. Beginning with the premise that death can be bad, either for the victim or in quasi-impersonal terms,
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Economica, 1985
determined. The morally significant differences between the states can be classified under three headings. First, there is length of life: at least one person lives longer in one state than in the other. Second, there is wellbeing: since life-saving uses up resources, on the whole people will be worse off in the state where lives are saved.
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determined. The morally significant differences between the states can be classified under three headings. First, there is length of life: at least one person lives longer in one state than in the other. Second, there is wellbeing: since life-saving uses up resources, on the whole people will be worse off in the state where lives are saved.
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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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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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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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Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2011
The phrase ‘the value of life’ is important in bioethics, particularly for those who hold the traditional views that life has intrinsic value and that the distinction between killing and allowing to die is valid. Ambiguities in the meaning of ‘the value of life,’ however, can lead to errors in medical ethical analysis by those who hold these ...
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The phrase ‘the value of life’ is important in bioethics, particularly for those who hold the traditional views that life has intrinsic value and that the distinction between killing and allowing to die is valid. Ambiguities in the meaning of ‘the value of life,’ however, can lead to errors in medical ethical analysis by those who hold these ...
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The Value of Life and the Value of Death
2004Darwinism was a matter of life and death. No one understood this better than Darwin did. Immediately after explaining that each organism “has to struggle for life, and to suffer great destruction,” he closed his chapter on “The Struggle for Existence” on a more comforting note: “When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full ...
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