Valuing health: against the ethical view
| dc.contributor.advisor | Simm, Kadri, juhendaja | et |
| dc.contributor.author | Zameska, Jay | |
| dc.contributor.other | Tartu Ülikool. Humanitaarteaduste ja kunstide valdkond | et |
| dc.contributor.other | Tartu Ülikool. Filosoofia osakond | et |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-22T18:17:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-06-22T18:17:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Health is often valued by its contribution to well-being. The most common way to establish values for health states is through eliciting a sample population’s preferences among states. The evidential view supports preferences based on the idea that preferences provide reliable indicators of well-being. The ethical view takes eliciting preferences to show proper respect for persons. I address the ethical view. In this thesis, I explain the process of valuing health states and describe the evidential and ethical views. I explain how preference-based measures are supposed to show respect for persons, and that respect for persons is shown by respecting autonomous preferences, and only autonomous preferences. I argue that health state preferences are not autonomous preferences, and as a result, preference-based measures do not show respect for persons. Thus, they are not actually supported by the ethical view. I explain the consequences of this argument for health valuation, suggesting that this gives us a reason to prefer methods that value health on other bases, e.g. through opportunity or capability. I also suggest that this has consequences for how we should think about autonomous choice in healthcare, and propose that bioethics needs further investigation into the processes of patient decision-making. | en |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.ester.ee/record=b5239757*est | et |
| dc.identifier.other | 20.03.01 ZAM 01 | et |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10062/64562 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.publisher | Tartu Ülikool | et |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights | Autorile viitamine + Mitteäriline eesmärk + Tuletatud teoste keeld 3.0 Eesti | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ee/ | * |
| dc.subject | ethics | en |
| dc.subject | health | en |
| dc.subject.other | magistritööd | et |
| dc.subject.other | eetika | et |
| dc.subject.other | tervis | et |
| dc.title | Valuing health: against the ethical view | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |