This work asks if society can place a monetary value on human life? How could society arrive at a figure that would represent human life? The author shows that society allows people to die when it costs too much in areas like road safety, workplace safety and in health care.
'...timely contribution to what is certain to continue to be a vigorous debate about the ethical future of cost-utility analysis.' Bioethics '...generating a much more readable and consistent text...thoughtful and thought-provoking...' Health Economics 'Whatever readers opinions on the QALY, this book offers a useful introduction to the subject as a whole, and to the ethical basis of QALYs in particular.' Bulletin of Medical Ethics
