A riveting examination of the value we place on human life – from healthcare to hitmen
At the start of May 2020, the New& York governor Andrew Cuomo was& under pressure to relax Covid restrictions. “The faster we reopen, the& lower the economic cost, but the higher the human cost because the more lives lost,” he said in a televised address. “The question comes back to how much is a human life worth.& That’s the real discussion that no one is admitting& openly or freely, but we should.”
That taboo question is at the centre of this riveting book. We may recoil from discussing it, but behind closed doors the price of a human life is being calculated all the time. So who is making these decisions, to what purpose, and according to which criteria? And what do the figures reveal about who – or what – we value?
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