Quality of life measures in health care and medical ethics

Brock, Dan W.

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“…Health economic measures such as the QALY may contain some notion of the good life, but this is philosophically unsophisticated at best (Brock, 2001). Yet economics has provided a sophisticated technocratic discourse that has allowed a moral sphere to be analysed and discussed in a particular way.…”

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On the Possibility of Organ Markets and the Performativity of Economics

Roscoe¹

2013

Journal of Cultural Economy

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Callon's (1998) 'performativity thesis' encourages us to consider how the boundaries of the economy are negotiated. This paper explores one such discussion: the contributions of economics to the debates over the introduction of markets for transplant organs. The paper pays particular attention to the normative aspects of economic valuation. It examines the philosophical antecedents of economic contributions to the debate, notes the rhetorical and linguistic power of economic calculation and then focuses on three distinct sets of calculations concerning the value of a transplant kidney: a contingent valuation calculation, a risk-premia based calculation, and a cost-efficiency simulation. In each case, it shows that economic facts, once created, may travel freely through normative debates and claim moral force. The technical process of economic modelling is therefore seen to be a crucial aspect of the economisation of this area, and of economic performativity more generally.

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Section: Discussion: Performing Valuementioning

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On the Possibility of Organ Markets and the Performativity of Economics

Roscoe¹

2013

Journal of Cultural Economy

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“…Although some thinkers have referred to it, for example when thinking about quality of life or the place of health in development, little has been done to apply the approach to definitions of health as such. (Brock, 1993;Verkerk, Busschback and Karssing, 2001;Ruger, 2004) Following the capability approach itself health has tended to be seen as one of the 'functionings' which make up capability rather than the more radical solution we suggest which is to consider what the approach could offer us as a way of conceiving of health as such.…”

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Conceptualising Health: Insights from the Capability Approach

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Widdows

2007

Health Care Anal

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“…There is widespread agreement among scholars (Brock, 1993;Diener and Suh, 1997;Johansson, 2002;Sirgy et al, 2006) that the quality of life can be analysed with three methodological and theoretical approaches, economic, social, and subjective, which by and large make use in empirical applications of the respective families of (economic, social and subjective) indicators 1 . The view that the economic approach based on the utilitarian notion of welfare can provide only a partial picture of the quality of life, and more broadly of well-being, 2 is now largely accepted by social scientists (Sen, 1979(Sen, , 1982(Sen, , 1992Erikson, 1993;Dasgupta and Weale, 1992;Dasgupta, 1993Dasgupta, , 1999Dasgupta, , 2001.…”

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An Assessment of the Quality of Life in the European Union Based on the Social Indicators Approach

Grasso

Canova

2007

Soc Indic Res

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This article carries out a multidimensional analysis of welfare based on the social indicators approach aimed at assessing the quality of life in the 25 member countries of the European Union. It begins with description of the social indicators approach and provides some specifications on its most controversial points. It then specifies the principles on which the social indicators were selected, describes the indicators chosen, and details the methodology employed in the empirical analysis. Its results are subsequently explained, in terms of both quality of life as measured by the general and the partial Quality Of Life (QOL) Indexes, and their correlations with the two indicators commonly employed in the EU context for welfare analyses -GDP per capita and Unemployment Rate. The article also reports further information obtained by plotting the QOL Index against GDP per capita, the Unemployment Rate, and an indicator of subjective well-being.

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Quality of life measures in health care and medical ethics

Cited by 34 publications

References 49 publications

On the Possibility of Organ Markets and the Performativity of Economics

On the Possibility of Organ Markets and the Performativity of Economics

Conceptualising Health: Insights from the Capability Approach

An Assessment of the Quality of Life in the European Union Based on the Social Indicators Approach

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