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Measuring the global burden of disease philosophical dimensions / edited by Nir Eyal [and four others] - 1 online resource illustrations, maps - Population level bioethics series .

Includes bibliographical references and index

"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"--

ISBN: 9780190082550 0190082550 0190082577 9780190082574

Subjects--Topical Terms:
World health--Research.
Diseases--Philosophy.
Diseases--Philosophy

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RA441

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1072