Caring for identified versus statistical lives: An evolutionary view of medical distributive justice

Ethology and Sociobiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 379-401

  Moore, Randall F ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefit; Cognitive; Cost; Distributive justice; Evolution; Identified lives; Medical inflation; Medical technology; Primary care; Statistical lives

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009951640     PISSN: 01623095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0162-3095(96)00079-9     Document Type: Article

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