Epilepsy, economics and ethics
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Epilepsy surgery is chosen as the main example in order to show that an abstract ethical discussion may have concrete implications for epilepsy outcome resarch. As an introduction, a few elementary facts and distinctions concerning health-economic analyses will be recapitulated. After that, you will be introduced to a certain discussion in the recent philosophical literature, and a thesis about the proper limits of utilitarianism as a decision tool in the allocation of medical resources will be presented. This thesis is then applied to the field of epilepsy surgery.
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