Saving People from the Harm of Death

著者名：Gamlund, Espen (EDT)/Solberg, Carl Tollef (EDT)/McMahan, Jeff (FRW)

Oxford University Press（2019/02/01発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780190921415
• eISBN：9780190921439

Description

Death is something we mourn or fear as the worst thing that could happen--whether the deaths of close ones, the deaths of strangers in reported accidents or tragedies, or our own. And yet, being dead is something that no one can experience and live to describe. This simple truth raises a host of difficult philosophical questions about the negativity surrounding our sense of death, and how and for whom exactly it is harmful. The question of whether death is bad has occupied philosophers for centuries, and the debate emerging in philosophical literature is referred to as the "badness of death." Are deaths primarily negative for the survivors, or does death also affect the deceased? What are the differences between death in fetal life, just after birth, or in adolescence? In order to properly evaluate deaths in global health, we must find answers to these questions.In this volume, leading philosophers, medical doctors, and economists discuss different views on how to evaluate death and its relevance for health policy. This includes theories about the harm of death and its connections to population-level bioethics. For example, one of the standard views in global health is that newborn deaths are among the worst types of death, yet stillbirths are neglected. This raises difficult questions about why birth is so significant, and several of the book's authors challenge this standard view.This is the first volume to connect philosophical discussions on the harm of death with discussions on population health, adjusting the ways in which death is evaluated. Changing these evaluations has consequences for how we prioritize different health programs that affect individuals at different ages, as well as how we understand inequality in health.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jeff McMahanIntroduction: Perspectives on Evaluating Deaths and their Relevance to Health PolicyEspen Gamlund & Carl Tollef SolbergPART I Policy 1. Quantifying the Harm of DeathErik Nord2. The Badness of Death: Implications for Summary Measures and Fair Priority Setting in HealthOle Frithjof Norheim3. Life Years at Stake: Justifying and Modelling Acquisition of Life-Potential for DALYsAndreas Mogensen4. Putting a Number on the Harm of DeathJoseph Millum5. Age, Death and the Allocation of Life-Saving ResourcesEspen GamlundPART II Theory6. Epicurean Challenges to the Disvalue of DeathCarl Tollef Solberg7. The Badness of Dying EarlyJohn Broome8. Early Death and Later SufferingJeff McMahan9. A Gradualist View About the Badness of DeathBen Bradley10. The Badness of Death and What to Do About It (if Anything)F. M. Kamm11. Deprivation and IdentityJens Johansson12. How Death is Bad for us as AgentsSusanne BurriPART III Population Ethics13. Against 'the Badness of Death' ?Hilary Greaves14. People Aren't Replaceable: Why it's Better to Extend Lives Than to Create New OnesMichelle Hutchinson15. The Worseness of NonexistenceTheron PummerPART IV Critical Perspectives16. The Badness of Death for Us, the Worth in Us, and Priorities in Saving LivesSamuel J. Kerstein17. How Much Better Than Death is Ordinary SurvivalIvar R. Labukt18. Healthcare Rationing and the Badness of Death: Should Newborns Count for Less?Timothy Campbell19. A Defense of the Time-Relative Interest Account: A Response to CampbellJeff McMahanIndex