Events: detail
What is a human life worth?
- Hosted by:
- Gresham College
- Speaker:
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Professor Christopher Dye, Gresham College
- Starts:
- April 24, 2008 at 01:00 pm
- Ends:
- April 24, 2008 at 02:00 pm
- Location:
- Gresham College, , Barnard's Inn Hall, London, EC1N 2HH United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
Choice is a marker of freedom, but also a consequence of limited resources. Because choices about health follow from evaluation, we now inhabit a world of DALYs and discounts, where the interval between birth and death is a “statistical life”. Does this fixation about measurement lead to the best decisions about improving health? Or is cost-effectiveness just the price of everything divided by the value of nothing?
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
For more information
- Contact person:
- Gresham College
- Phone:
- 020 7831 0575
- Email:
- enquiries [ at ] gresham.ac.uk
- Website:
- What is a human life worth?
