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The relational threshold: a life that is valued, or a life of value? [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2019 The four thoughtful commentaries on our feature article draw out interesting empirical and normative questions. The aim of our study was to examine the views of a sample of the general public about a set of cases of disputed treatment for severely impaired infants.1 We compared those views with legal determinations that treatment was or was not in the ...
Dominic Wilkinson +3 more
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Heilige und vorletzte Wirklichkeit. Einsatz Johannes Pauls II. für die Würde des menschlichen Lebens
The Person and the Challenges, 2012 John Paul II could be rightly called the ‘Admirer of life’. His deep faith, along with the existential reasons, the sources of which could be traced back to his traumatic experiences during the Second World War, moulded him into a strong defender of ...
Marian Machinek
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Social Indicators Research, 2020 This paper examines the association of opportunity and choice enhancing societal conditions and perceived autonomy with life satisfaction in Europe. Building on the capability approach, I investigate whether the positive effects of six basic functionings—
Leonie C. Steckermeier
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Valuing health‐related quality of life: An EQ‐5D‐5L value set for England
Health Economics, 2017 A new version of the EQ‐5D, the EQ‐5D‐5L, is available. The aim of this study is to produce a value set to support use of EQ‐5D‐5L data in decision‐making. The study design followed an international research protocol.
N. Devlin +4 more
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Procreative Generosity: Why We Should Not Have Children
Philosophies, 2023 We should not have children because (i) we have no child-regarding reasons to do so, (ii) we have child-regarding reasons not to do so, and (iii) although we have other-regarding reasons to do so, these reasons are not decisive. Objections to (i) include
Matti Häyry
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On the Subjective Value of Life
Philosophies, 2023 Claims (or the implicit assumption) of the inherent worth of life are pervasive and remain virtually unchallenged. I have already argued that these outright moral dictates are thinly veiled vestiges of theological ethics which, following the removal of their theological foundations, remain little more than nebulous claims supported only by fear of the ...
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Journal of Public Health Policy, 1913 r; aG?j ANY attempts have been made to estimate the money value of human life, some of the most careful by members of this Association. The usual point of view is to consider that the money value of a life i represented by its value to its possessor, or to his 2kn!3 ~family.
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The Value of the Quality of Life [PDF]
European Journal of Heart Failure, 2010 This editorial refers to 'Quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure and their carers: a 3-year follow-up study assessing hospitalization and mortality' by J. Iqbal et al., published in this issue on pages 1002-1008.
Jaarsma, Tiny, Lesman-Leegte, Ivonne
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BMJ, 1998 A few weeks ago I visited W B Yeats's grave and sat awhile in thought; no towers of adamant nor rings of steel, just a simple stone monument with the words, “Cast a cold eye/ On life, on death/Horseman pass by.” A few hours later and a few miles south, I was in a bar on the Atlantic coast, drinking a pint of the blackest porter, eating crab claws ...
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Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular DiseaseBackground The predictive value of Life's Crucial 9 (LC9), a recently proposed cardiovascular health risk score combining psychological health and Life's Essential 8 (LE8), remains unclear.
Jinzhuo Ge, Wenyao Peng, Jiapeng Lu
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