Daniel Callahan is president emeritus and cofounder of The Hastings Center, which focuses on ethical and policy issues. He has published seventeen volumes, including
Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System (2009),
Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice (2006); and
What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative (2006).
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Daniel Callahan: The Five Horsemen of the Modern World
In recent decades, we have seen five perilous and interlocking trends dominate global discourse: irreversible climate change, extreme food and water shortages, rising chronic illnesses, and rampant o …
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Daniel Callahan: What Price Better Health?
The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply rooted in American society and medicine. In this provocative work, Daniel Callahan exposes the ways in which …
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Daniel Callahan: Taming the Beloved Beast
Why health care reform must tackle the escalating cost of medical technology Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American h …
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Margaret Urban Walker: Mother Time
This collection of original essays opens up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimension of women’s experiences of aging. Fifteen distinguished contributors here explore assumptions, …
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Patrick D. Hopkins & Robert Strikwerda: Rethinking Masculinity
The new edition of this popular book is reorganized to present pairs of contrasting views on what it means to be a man in contemporary Western culture. Addressing such issues as sex differences, …
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Margaret O’Brien Steinfels: American Catholics, American Culture
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable …
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€176.08
Daniel Callahan: False Hopes
This ground-breaking book by one of the nation’s leading experts on medical ethics, Daniel Callahan, traces the root cause of America’s health-care crisis not to inefficient organization or waste, …
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Daniel Callahan & Sidney Callahan: Abortion: Understanding Differences
SIDNEY CALLAHAN AND DANIEL CALLAHAN This book, like many other things to do with abortion, is a product of long controversy. Though carried out with cooperation, it was conceived in conflict. The …
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Sissela Bok & Daniel Callahan: Ethics Teaching in Higher Education
A concern for the ethical instruction and formation of students has always been a part of American higher education. Yet that concern has by no means been uniform or free from controversy. The …
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Daniel Callahan: Roots of Ethics
OUR AGE IS CHARACTERIZED by an uncertainty about the na- ture of moral obligations, about what one can hope for in an afterlife, and about the limits of human knowledge. These uncertainties were …
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Daniel Callahan & Bruce Jennings: Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis
The social sciences playa variety of multifaceted roles in the policymaking process. So varied are these roles, indeed, that it is futile to talk in the singular about the use of social science in …
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Lydia S. Dugdale: Dying in the Twenty-First Century
Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither …
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Sam Berger & Jonathan D. Moreno: Progress in Bioethics
Leading scholars debate politically progressive perspectives on bioethics and the implications for society, politics, and science in the twenty-first century.Bioethics has become increasingly …
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Daniel Callahan: In Search of the Good
One of the founding fathers of bioethics describes the development of the field and his thinking on some of the crucial issues of our time. Daniel Callahan helped invent the field of bioethics more …
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Daniel Callahan & Angela A. Wasunna: Medicine and the Market
Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine Much has been written about medicine and the market in recent years. This book is the first to include an assessment of market influence in both …
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Mary Thomas Crane & David Quigley: Curriculum by Design
This book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrators …
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Mary Thomas Crane & David Quigley: Curriculum by Design
This book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrators …
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Daniel Callahan: World Growing Old
For much of the developed world, health care for a surging elderly population looms as one of the most daunting problems of the coming decade. In this book, contributors from diverse disciplinary …
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Daniel Callahan & Mark J. Hanson: Goals of Medicine
Debates over health care have focused for so long on economics that the proper goals for medicine seem to be taken for granted; yet problems in health care stem as much from a lack of agreement about …
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Daniel Callahan: Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
At the center of the debate over complementary and alternative medicine-from acupuncture and chiropractic treatments to homeopathy and nutritional supplements-is how to scientifically measure the …
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Daniel Callahan: Troubled Dream of Life
Drawing on his own experience, and on literature, philosophy, and medicine, Daniel Callahan offers great insight into how to deal with the rewards of modern medicine without upsetting our perception …
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