Measuring the Global Burden of Disease: Philosophical Dimensions (POPULATION LEVEL BIOETHICS SERIES)

In This Volume, A Group Of Leading Philosophers, Economists, Epidemiologists, And Policy Scholars Continue A Twenty-year Discussion Of Philosophical Questions Connected To The Global Burden Of Disease Study (gbd), One Of The Largest-scale Research Collaborations In Global Health. Chapters Explore Issues In Ethics, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics, The Philosophy Of Economics, And The Philosophy Of Medicine. Some Chapters Identify Previously-unappreciated Aspects Of The Gbd, Including The Way It Handles Causation And Aggregates Complex Data; While Others Offer Fresh Perspectives On Frequently-discussed Topics Such As Discounting, Age-weighting, And The Valuation Of Health States. The Volume Concludes With A Set Of Chapters Discussing How Epidemiological Data Should And Shouldn't Be Used--