Espen Gamlund is professor of philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway. He specializes in moral philosophy and bioethics, and has published work on forgiveness, moral status of animals, death, and resource allocation in health. In addition, he has published on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Gamlund also runs a philosophy blog (in Norwegian), and in 2015 he won The Faculty of Humanities' prize for his research dissemination.
Carl Tollef Solberg is a philosopher and medical doctor at the University of Bergen and the University of Oslo. He specializes in bioethics and medical ethics and has published work on priority setting in health care, death, and medical ethics. Further, he has worked at several clinical levels of the health care system. His research interests stand at the intersection of medicine and philosophy.
Foreword by Jeff McMahan Introduction: Perspectives on Evaluating Deaths and their Relevance to Health Policy Espen Gamlund & Carl Tollef Solberg
PART I Policy 1. Quantifying the Harm of Death Erik Nord 2. The Badness of Death: Implications for Summary Measures and Fair Priority Setting in Health Ole Frithjof Norheim 3. Life Years at Stake: Justifying and Modelling Acquisition of Life-Potential for DALYs Andreas Mogensen 4. Putting a Number on the Harm of Death Joseph Millum 5. Age, Death and the Allocation of Life-Saving Resources Espen Gamlund
PART II Theory 6. Epicurean Challenges to the Disvalue of Death Carl Tollef Solberg 7. The Badness of Dying Early John Broome 8. Early Death and Later Suffering Jeff McMahan 9. A Gradualist View About the Badness of Death Ben Bradley 10. The Badness of Death and What to Do About It (if Anything) F. M. Kamm 11. Deprivation and Identity Jens Johansson 12. How Death is Bad for us as Agents Susanne Burri
PART III Population Ethics 13. Against 'the Badness of Death' ? Hilary Greaves 14. People Aren't Replaceable: Why it's Better to Extend Lives Than to Create New Ones Michelle Hutchinson 15. The Worseness of Nonexistence Theron Pummer
PART IV Critical Perspectives 16. The Badness of Death for Us, the Worth in Us, and Priorities in Saving Lives Samuel J. Kerstein 17. How Much Better Than Death is Ordinary Survival Ivar R. Labukt 18. Healthcare Rationing and the Badness of Death: Should Newborns Count for Less? Timothy Campbell 19. A Defense of the Time-Relative Interest Account: A Response to Campbell Jeff McMahan
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