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Identified versus statistical lives : an interdisciplinary perspective / edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Norman Daniels, and Nir Eyal.

Contributor(s): Cohen, I. Glenn [editor.] | Daniels, Norman, 1942- [editor.] | Eyal, Nir M. (Nir Morechay), 1970- [editor.].
Series: Population-level bioethics series.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]Description: xii, 227 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190217471 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Health care rationing | Medical care, Cost of | Medical policy | Empathy | Health Care Rationing -- ethics | Empathy | Health PolicyGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
On the psychology of the identifiable victim effect / Deborah A. Small -- "Dual-process" : models of the mind and the "statistical victim effect" / Peter Railto -- Identified vs. statistical lives : some introductory issues and arguments / Dan W. Brock -- Welfarism, equity, and the choice between statistical and identified victims / Matthew Adler -- Risking life and limb : how to discount harms by their improbability / Michael Otsuka -- Concentrated risk, the Coventry blitz, Chamberlain's cancer / Nir Eyal -- Can there be moral force to favoring an identified over a statistical life? / Norman Daniels -- Statistical people and counterfactual indeterminacy / Caspar Hare -- How (not) to argue for the rule of rescue : claims of individuals versus group solidarity / Marcel Verweij -- Why not empathy? / Michael Slote -- Identified versus statistical lives in U.S. civil litigation : of standing, ripeness, and class actions / I. Glenn Cohen -- Statistical lives in environmental law / Lisa Heinzerling -- Treatment versus prevention in the fight against HIV/AIDS and the problem of identified versus statistical lives / Johann Frick -- From biology to policy : ethical and economic issues in HIV treatment-as-prevention / Till Bärnighausen and Max Essex -- Testing, treating, and trusting / Jonathan Wolff.
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On the psychology of the identifiable victim effect / Deborah A. Small -- "Dual-process" : models of the mind and the "statistical victim effect" / Peter Railto -- Identified vs. statistical lives : some introductory issues and arguments / Dan W. Brock -- Welfarism, equity, and the choice between statistical and identified victims / Matthew Adler -- Risking life and limb : how to discount harms by their improbability / Michael Otsuka -- Concentrated risk, the Coventry blitz, Chamberlain's cancer / Nir Eyal -- Can there be moral force to favoring an identified over a statistical life? / Norman Daniels -- Statistical people and counterfactual indeterminacy / Caspar Hare -- How (not) to argue for the rule of rescue : claims of individuals versus group solidarity / Marcel Verweij -- Why not empathy? / Michael Slote -- Identified versus statistical lives in U.S. civil litigation : of standing, ripeness, and class actions / I. Glenn Cohen -- Statistical lives in environmental law / Lisa Heinzerling -- Treatment versus prevention in the fight against HIV/AIDS and the problem of identified versus statistical lives / Johann Frick -- From biology to policy : ethical and economic issues in HIV treatment-as-prevention / Till Bärnighausen and Max Essex -- Testing, treating, and trusting / Jonathan Wolff.

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