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Rotman Dialogue with James Wilson: Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy
Rotman Dialogue with James Wilson: Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy
Making wise ethical choices is difficult. So, a crucial task of ethical theory is to make such decision-making easier, but without falsifying, or over-simplifying the choices to be made. The difficult question is what counts as good simplification, and what counts as over-simplification. This Rotman Dialogue discusses the theory and practice of making ethical public […]
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James Wilson: What makes a health system good? From cost-effectiveness analysis to ethical optimisation in health systems
James Wilson: What makes a health system good? From cost-effectiveness analysis to ethical optimisation in health systems
Abstract Fair allocation of scarce healthcare resources has been much studied within philosophy and bioethics, but analysis has focused on a narrow range of cases. The Covid-19 pandemic provided significant new challenges, making powerfully visible the extent to which health systems can be fragile, and how scarcities within crucial elements of interlinked care pathways can […]
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Philosophical Perspectives on Astrochemistry
Philosophical Perspectives on Astrochemistry
Astrochemistry is a young discipline, which started with the unexpected detection of molecules in the interstellar medium in the 1940’s. Astrochemical models aim at describing the physicochemical processes explaining the composition in the interstellar medium or of planetary atmospheres, despite the fact that the models and the observations against which they must be validated are highly uncertain. These uncertainties, […]