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The Roots of Bioethics - Health, Progress, Technology, Death (Hardcover, New)
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The Roots of Bioethics - Health, Progress, Technology, Death (Hardcover, New)
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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 career. They have moved back and forth between clinical care
of individual patients and the ethical problems of health care
research and delivery. Through his many writings, four core
problems have recurred in all of his work, and influence each of
the others. What is health and how has its understanding been
shaped by medical progress and the culture of medicine and society?
What is progress, a deep value in modern health care and how should
we judge it? What kinds of technological innovations that come out
of the drive for progress are really good for us-and what do we do
when there is a clash between individual good and social good in
the use of expensive technologies, a problem now evident in the
unsustainable high costs of health care? How should our
understanding of the place of an inevitable death in all our lives,
and its place in medicine, help us to better think of the goals of
medicine and the goals of our life in seeking a good death? Those
four questions have been with bioethics from its beginning and will
remain with it for the indefinite future. They are the roots of
bioethics.
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