ERC Starting Grant · 2023
ETHME: The Ethics of Mortality Measurement
There are around 55 million deaths in the world each year. How should we evaluate these deaths? Diseases and injuries give rise to both morbidity and mortality. Until the 1950s, epidemiologists were concerned with counting the number of deaths. Since then, evaluative measures concerned with the disvalue of death have grown. In parallel, there has been a debate in analytic philosophy since the 1970s that concerns whether death can harm those who die. The philosophers in this latter debate have not focused on deaths at a population level. In all societies, the demand for health care exceeds the available resources. However, to prioritize scarce resources in a consistent and meaningful manner,…
From the public funding record at EU CORDIS. Describes the funded project, not the reviews below.