Medico-Legal Series: Medico-Legal Series
About the Book Series
This series is designed to present the most up-to-date developments in the international medico-legal field to lawyers, doctors, policy-makers and others interested in this rapidly expanding, but immensely complex, area. With contributions from authors from a number of different jurisdictions and backgrounds the books deal with a range of vitally important issues relating for example to human reproduction, the treatment of mentally ill and the mentally handicapped, abortion and the relationship between doctors and patients.
The Allocation of Health Care Resources: An Ethical Evaluation of the 'QALY' Approach
1st Edition
By John McKie, Peter Singer, Jeff Richardson
June 30, 2020
The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. But the goods that health care produces are of very different kinds. Health care can extend the lives of children and of older people. It can make it ...