Kuhse, Singer and slippery slopes.

Singer and Kuhse on the potential of embryos.

The Importance of Distribution in the Allocation of Health Resources

We would like to thank Dr Helga Kuhse and Professor Peter Singer for valuable comments on the material in Chapter 4. Andrew Street conducted the quantitative analysis of the data in Chapter 6. Bernadette Scully was responsible for the final presentation of the report.

Double jeopardy and the veil of ignorance - a reply

This paper discusses the attempt in this issue of the journal by Peter Singer, John McKie, Helga Kuhse and 7eff Richardson, to defend QALYs against the argument from double jeopardy which Ifirst outlined in 1987. In showing how the QALY and other similar measures which combine life expectancy and quality of life and use these to justify particular allocations of health care resource, remain vul...

Would Aristotle have played Russian Roulette ?

This paper continues the debate between myselfand Peter Singer et al started in the Journal of Medical Ethics volume 21, no 3 about the ethical respectability of the use of QALYs in health care allocation. It discusses the question of what, in the way of health care provision, would be chosen by rational egoists behind a Rawlsian "veil of ignorance", and takes forward the vexed question of what...

Using social information to guide action: Infants' locomotion over slippery slopes

In uncertain situations such as descending challenging slopes, social signals from caregivers can provide infants with important information for guiding action. Previous work showed that 18-month-old walking infants use social information selectively, only when risk of falling is uncertain. Experiment 1 was designed to alter infants' region of uncertainty for walking down slopes. Slippery Teflo...