Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Radiation Protection, Decision Theory, Public Health
27 Mar 2018
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Individual treatment that prolongs their life but reduces their quality of life or treatment that doesn"t prolong their life but increases their quality of life. Situations regarding weighing lives includes personal decisions by individuals and decisions made by governments. The goodness of a life is made up of the good things that there are in a life. Weighing extending lives against improving lives (extra things in these lives must be compared) You don"t know how things are going to turn out. Decision theory look at possible things, evaluate them, attach a probability and calculate an expected value (sum of value of things that might happen x probability/possible things that might happen) Look at average goodness of the things that might happen in each situation. Example risk of damage done by nuclear radiation. Radiation can escape from a nuclear plant and is widely distributed across a country. 10 people out of the whole population are killed.
