# What is a human life worth?

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Christopher Dye
- Year: 2008
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/what-human-life-worth)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Choice is a marker of freedom, but also a consequence of limited resources. Because choices about health follow from evaluation, we now inhabit a world of DALYs and discounts, where the interval between birth and death is a "statistical life". Does this fixation about measurement lead to the best decisions about improving health? Or is cost-effectiveness just the price of everything divided by the value of nothing?

## Lectures

1. [What is a human life worth?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/what-human-life-worth/37e12c8c7cb5) (YouTube)