Medicine, Markets & Morals

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MMM is a three-seminar series sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and jointly organised by GCU and University of Liverpool. The main purpose of MMM was to bring together ethics and economics perspectives on the questions of: what types of health care system do we want to have; and how best to organise such systems.

Seminars have been held at the University of Birmingham, GCU and, in May 2016, at Liverpool’s London Campus. As in previous meetings, GCU researchers were prominent, with Cam Donaldson presenting on the need to recognise market failure in explaining why we have an NHS and Rachel Baker and Helen Mason presenting on their MRC-funded work on how to elicit societal values about what should count in health care priority setting and focussing on views of life-extending technologies for patients with terminal illnesses http://www.gcu.ac.uk/endoflife/.

Plans are underway to continue the MMM series, including an edited volume of proceedings. You can view the MMM website at: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/psychology-health-and-society/research/mmm/ If you want to know more, please feel free to contact us here at the Yunus Centre (Cam.Donaldson@gcu.ac.uk or Rachel.Baker@gcu.ac.uk).

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