Valuing Health
Subtitle: Well-Being, Freedom, and Suffering
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780190233181
Subjects: Medical policy; Social values
Description: In 'Valuing Health' Daniel M. Hausman provides a philosophically sophisticated overview of generic health measurement that suggests improvements in standard methods and proposes a radical alternative. He shows how to avoid relying on surveys and instead evaluate health states directly. Hausman goes on to tackle the deep problems of evaluation, offering an account of fundamental evaluation that does not presuppose the assignment of values to the properties andconsequences of alternatives.