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Basic Bioethics Ser.: In Search of the Good : A Life in Bioethics by Daniel Callahan (2012, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262018489
ISBN-139780262018487
eBay Product ID (ePID)117357258
Product Key Features
Number of Pages232 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameIn Search of the Good : Alife in Bioethics
SubjectEthics, Science & Technology
Publication Year2012
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, Medical
AuthorDaniel Callahan
SeriesBasic Bioethics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-013229
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal174.2
SynopsisOne 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 than forty years ago when he decided to use his training in philosophy to grapple with ethical problems in biology and medicine. Disenchanted with academic philosophy because of its analytical bent and distance from the concerns of real life, Callahan found the ethical issues raised by the rapid medical advances of the 1960s--which included the birth control pill, heart transplants, and new capacities to keep very sick people alive--to be philosophical questions with immediate real-world relevance. In this memoir, Callahan describes his part in the founding of bioethics and traces his thinking on critical issues including embryonic stem cell research, market-driven health care, and medical rationing. He identifies the major challenges facing bioethics today and ruminates on its future. Callahan writes about founding the Hastings Center--the first bioethics research institution--with the author and psychiatrist Willard Gaylin in 1969, and recounts the challenges of running a think tank while keeping up a prolific flow of influential books and articles. Editor of the famous liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal in the 1960s, Callahan describes his now-secular approach to issues of illness and mortality. He questions the idea of endless medical "progress" and interventionist end-of-life care that seems to blur the boundary between living and dying. It is the role of bioethics, he argues, to be a loyal dissenter in the onward march of medical progress. The most important challenge for bioethics now is to help rethink the very goals of medicine.
LC Classification NumberQH332.C35 2012
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