Behavioral Economics and Bioethics A Journey /

• Main Author: Lee, Li Way (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Advances in Behavioral Economics,
• Subjects: Behavioral economics.; Bioethics.; Economic history.; Health economics.; Medical ethics.; Behavioral/Experimental Economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Health Economics.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Patient Who Changes His Mind
• 3. The Two Selves in My Friend Addict
• 4. The Oregon Paradox
• 5. The Two-Headed Physician
• 6. The Governance of Death
• 7. The Public Health Roulettes
• 8. The Long Shadow of Caregiving
• 9. International Justice in Elder Care: The Long Run
• 10. The Making of Modern Cruelty
• 11. Two Animal Ethics; Many More Economic Lessons
• 12. Revenges by the CAFO Pigs
• 13. Future Earth: A View from the Rainbow Bridge.