Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Background to the QALY -- The Nature of Economic Evaluation -- Three Types of Economic Evaluation -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Cost…
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.
