Measuring the global burden of disease  philosophical dimensions / 
edited by Nir Eyal [and four others] 
 - 1 online resource  illustrations, maps 
 - Population level bioethics series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780190082550 0190082550 0190082577 9780190082574 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World health--Research.<br/>Diseases--Philosophy.<br/>Diseases--Philosophy
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA441 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.1072