Behavioral Economics and Bioethics: A Journey

ISBN-13: 9783319897783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 113 str.

Li Way Lee

Opis

This book takes readers on a journey through the wide universe of bioethics, raising the following question: what is the proper attitude towards health, life, and death from the perspective of contemporary behavioral economics?

Spis treści

1. Introduction

PART I Selves in a Patient

2. The Patient Who Changes His Mind

3. The Two Selves in My Friend Addict

4. The Oregon Paradox  

PART II Physician and Patient

5. The Two-Headed Physician

6. The Governance of Death

PART III Young People and Old People 

7. The Public Health Roulettes

8. The Long Shadow of Caregiving

9. International Justice in Elder Care: The Long Run

PART IV People and Animals

10. The Making of Modern Cruelty

11. Two Animal Ethics; Many More Economic Lessons

12. Revenges by the CAFO Pigs

PART V Present People and Future People

13. Future Earth: A View from the Rainbow Bridge

O autorze

Li Way Lee is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Wayne State University, USA. He is also a member of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE).

Blurb

This book takes readers on a journey through the wide universe of bioethics, raising the following question: what is the proper attitude towards health, life, and death from the perspective of contemporary behavioral economics? Drawing on fields as diverse as economics, ethics, ecology, biology, and philosophy, this book seeks to uncover the bioethics we accomplish, not the moral principles that we advocate. This book covers life-and-death issues arranged around five themes: selves, persons, populations, species, and “Future Earth”. Ultimately, the author illustrates two kinds of justice: static and dynamic. Static justice prevails whenever parties are free to bargain with each other, while dynamic justice follows from parties' interactions over time. An examination into these types of justice reveals one particularly striking phenomenon: attempts by others to tip the balance of justice have a tendency to backfire. Of primary interest to behavioral economists, this book will also appeal to scholars studying bioethics, ecology, medicine, and philosophy, as well as all people dealing with issues of health, dying, and death.