Identified versus statistical lives: an interdisciplinary perspective

by Cohen, I. Glenn Daniels, Norman Eyal, Nir M., (Eyal, Nir Morechay)

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Full title :Identified versus statistical lives : an interdisciplinary perspective / edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Norman Daniels, and Nir Eyal

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Publication Date:2015

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

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On the psychology of the identifiable victim effect / Deborah A. Small . "Dual-process" : models of the mind and the "statistical victim effect" / Peter Railto. Identified vs. statistical lives : some introductory issues and arguments / Dan W. Brock. Welfarism, equity, and the choice between statistical and identified victims / Matthew Adler. Risking life and limb : how to discount harms by their improbability / Michael Otsuka. Concentrated risk, the Coventry blitz, Chamberlain's cancer / Nir Eyal. Can there be moral force to favoring an identified over a statistical life? / Norman Daniels. Statistical people and counterfactual indeterminacy / Caspar Hare. How (not) to argue for the rule of rescue : claims of individuals versus group solidarity / Marcel Verweij. Why not empathy? / Michael Slote. Identified versus statistical lives in U.S. civil litigation : of standing, ripeness, and class actions / I. Glenn Cohen. Statistical lives in environmental law / Lisa Heinzerling. Treatment versus prevention in the fight against HIV/AIDS and the problem of identified versus statistical lives / Johann Frick. From biology to policy : ethical and economic issues in HIV treatment-as-prevention / Till Bärnighausen and Max Essex. Testing, treating, and trusting / Jonathan Wolff