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The Quality of Life

This book addresses issues of defining and measuring the quality of life. Recent developments in the philosophical definition of well-being are discussed and linked to practical issues such as the delivery of health care, and the assessment of women's quality of life. Leading philosophers and economists have contributed to this volume to consider the problems the subject raises.

This volume reflects the growing need for interdisciplinary work as economists become more sensitive to the importance of facing fundamental philosophical questions and of the importance of linking their theoretical enquiries to an understanding of complex practical problems.

This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.

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Martha C. Nussbaum

Amartya Sen

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March 1993

Clarendon Press Oxford,

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Table of contents
  1. Part I: Lives and Capabilities
    1. Equality of What?: On Welfare, Goods, and Capabilities
    Gerald Allan Cohen
  2. Part I: Lives and Capabilities
    2. Capability and Well-Being
    Amartya Sen
  3. Part I: Lives and Capabilities
    3. Descriptions of Inequality: The Swedish Approach to Welfare Research
    Robert Erikson
    More Working Paper | Descriptions of Inequality
  4. Part I: Lives and Capabilities
    4. Having, Loving, Being: An Alternative to the Swedish Model of Welfare Research
    Erik Allardt
  5. Part I: Lives and Capabilities
    5. Quality of Life Measures in Health Care and Medical Ethics
    Dan W. Brock
    More Working Paper | Quality of Life Measures in Health Care and Medical Ethics
  6. Part II: Traditions, Relativism, and Objectivity
    6. Objectivity and the Science/Ethics Distinction
    Hilary Putnam
    More Working Paper | Objectivity and the Science/Ethics Distinction
  7. Part II: Traditions, Relativism, and Objectivity
    7. Objectivity and Social Meaning
    Michael Walzer
  8. Part II: Traditions, Relativism, and Objectivity
    8. Value, Desire, and Quality of Life
    Thomas Scanlon
  9. Part II: Traditions, Relativism, and Objectivity
    9. Explanation and Practical Reason
    Charles Taylor
    More Working Paper | Explanation and Practical Reason
  10. Part II: Traditions, Relativism, and Objectivity
    10. Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach
    Martha C. Nussbaum
    More Working Paper | Non-Relative Virtues
  11. Part III: Women's Lives and Gender Justice
    11. Women and the Quality of Life: Two Norms or One?
    Julia Annas
  12. Part III: Women's Lives and Gender Justice
    12. Justice, Gender and International Boundaries
    Onora O'Neill
    More Working Paper | Justice, Gender and International Boundaries
  13. Part IV: Policy Assessment and Welfare Economics
    13. Distributing Health: The Allocation of Resources by an International Agency
    John E. Roemer
    More Working Paper | Distributing Health
  14. Part IV: Policy Assessment and Welfare Economics
    14. The Relativity of the Welfare Concept
    Bernard M. S. van Praag
    More Working Paper | The Relativity of the Welfare Concept
  15. Part IV: Policy Assessment and Welfare Economics
    15. Pluralism and the Standard of Living
    Paul Seabright
  16. Part IV: Policy Assessment and Welfare Economics
    16. Life-Style and the Standard of Living
    Christopher Bliss
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