What is the value of preventing a fatality?

Risk: Philosophical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 54-67

  Wolff, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203962596     Document Type: Chapter

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