Health economics: the cheerful face of the dismal science? [Lecture]

These are the slides and LaTeX source files (without copyrighted image files) from an introductory lecture that I gave to a group of non-economists (namely, postgraduate medical physicists) at the University of Liverpool in October 2014. The lecture consisted largely of Alan Williams quotes. In the lecture I discussed the scope of each part of Williams's plumbing diagram and gave an example of some recent research that might fall into this category. I then discussed some of the tensions and trade-offs that economists deal with, and presented some of the concepts used by health economists; arguing that these aspects make the subject potentially more interesting to the students than other subdisciplines of economics.