Daniel M. Hausman is Research Professor at the Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University. His research addresses various issues between economics and philosophy, the measurement of health, and the allocation of health care.

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Measuring Health and the "Effectiveness" of Health Care


• Chapter 2: Cost-Effectiveness, Well-Being, and Freedom


• Chapter 3: Conceptual, Technical, and Ethical Problems with Cost Effectiveness


• Chapter 4: Theories of Fair Distribution


• Chapter 5: What Constitutes a Fair Allocation of Health Care?


• Chapter 6: Fair Chances


• Chapter 7: Does Cost-Effectiveness Fail to Give Sufficient Priority to Severity?


• Chapter 8 To Aggregate or Not to Aggregate


• Chapter 9: Discrimination


• Chapter 10: Health Care: Respectful, Cost Effective, and Fair


• Acknowledgments and Sources


• References


• Index

How Health Care Can Be Cost-Effective and Fair considers how healthcare can be both cost-effective and ethical. Daniel M. Hausman defends a major role for cost-effective reasoning in healthcare distribution, while also recognizing its serious limitations.