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The allocation of health care resources : an ethical evaluation of the ’QALY’ approach

John McKie ... [et al.]
Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, USA : Ashgate, c1998

ISBN: 1855219530

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Book description
In this book, a distinguished team of ethicists and economists defend the core of the Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY) proposal: that health care resources should be used so as to produce more years of life, of the highest possible quality.  This leads to a discussion of such fundamental questions as whether all lives are of equal value, whether health care should be allocated on the basis of need, and whether the QALY approach incorporates an adequate account of fairness or justice.  The result is the most thorough account yet of the ethical issues raised by the use of the QALY as a basis for allocating health care resources.

About the author
John McKie is Assistant Lecturer in the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University in Melbourne.  He has taught philosophy at the Universities of Adelaide, New England and Melbourne.
Jeff Richardson is Director of the Health Economics Unit at the Centre for Health Program Evaluation at Monash University.  He has published extensively in the area of health economics and has worked for the WHO, the Australian Development Assistance Bureau, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Peter Singer was the founding director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, where he is now a professor.   He was also the foundation president of the International Association of Bioethics.
Helga Kuhse is Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University.  She is also editor of Monash Bioethics Review and, with Peter Singer, of Bioethics.

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