ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with some of the attempts that have been made to place a value on human life and suffering. Most of the research in this field has been concerned with mortality rather than morbidity and it is consequently life and death, rather than injury and non-fatal illness, which is the main issue discussed, although many of the approaches apply whether or not death or risk of death is involved. The interest and the literature in evaluation of life and limb has been growing rapidly in the last decade but since much of it, particularly the older literature, is somewhat repetitive this chapter does not attempt to review it comprehensively. (For more extensive reviews see Jones-Lee, 1976, and Mooney, 1977.)
