Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enor
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 ob
Linear Algebra 4th ed., by Friedberg, Insel, and Spence is one of the world's best textbooks on the subject of finite-dimensional linear analysis. This book offers 266 solutions to problems from chapt
Daniel Callahan---whose cofounding of The Hastings Center in 1969 was one of the most important milestones in the history of bioethics--has written on an uncommonly wide range of issues over a long ca
Daniel Callahan helped invent the field of bioethics more than forty years ago whenhe decided to use his training in philosophy to grapple with ethical problems in biology andmedicine. Disenchanted wi
Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enor
Medical research, with its ability to attract money and political support and its promise of cures for a wide range of ills, has its good and bad sides - and they are often indistinguishable from one
Medical ethicist Callahan suggests some ways of bringing the legal and policy issues in the care of the dying and critically ill back into closer contact with some of the oldest questions of human exi
First published in 1987; however, "A Response to My Critics" is newly included. Callahan addresses the ethical problems of aging in a clear, compassionate manner, focusing debate on the immediate pri
Lucidly describes the irrationalities of the present health care system while outlining the benefits of a new model of health care which the author believes would serve people more intelligently in th
Originally published in 1973 by Macmillan, this probing book examines the uses, control and consequences of technology in a world which must either take realistic stock of its obsession with unbridled
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 th
The government, the media, HMOs, and individual Americans have all embraced programs to promote disease prevention. Yet obesity is up, exercise is down, teenagers continue to smoke, and sexually trans
Using the American health care system as a leaping off point, the authors (both of the Hastings Center) compare and contrast the use of market practices in health care systems around the world. Their
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 pol
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
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 back
Fifteen original essays open up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimensions of women's experiences of and in aging. Contributors distinguished in the fields of feminist ethics and th
