Risk, Death, and Well-Being
The Ethical Foundations of Fatality Risk Regulation
| dc.contributor.author | Adler, Matthew D. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-08-18T15:05:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-08-18T15:05:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105580 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A wide range of governmental policies characteristic of the modern state seek to reduce individuals’ fatality risks. Risk, Death, and Well-Being provides a rigorous treatment of the ethics of fatality risk regulation. It does so through the lens of welfare-consequentialism—specifically, lifetime welfarism, with a particular focus on utilitarianism and prioritarianism. At the level of policy choice, the book deploys the social-welfare-function (SWF) framework—which is the most systematic decision-procedure for implementing lifetime welfarism. | en_US |
| dc.language | English | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Population-Level Bioethics | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | fatality risk; welfarism; utilitarianism; prioritarianism; social welfare function; SWF; cost-benefit analysis; CBA | en_US |
| dc.title | Risk, Death, and Well-Being | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | The Ethical Foundations of Fatality Risk Regulation | en_US |
| dc.type | book | |
| oapen.identifier.doi | 10.1093/9780197505984.001.0001 | en_US |
| oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 | en_US |
| oapen.relation.isFundedBy | 09983451-0fe9-4807-8ca3-58f502fd2b25 | en_US |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9780197505984 | en_US |
| oapen.pages | 352 | en_US |
| oapen.place.publication | New York |
