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What Price Better Health? - Hazards of the Research Imperative (Paperback, New Ed)
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What Price Better Health? - Hazards of the Research Imperative (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, 9
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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
such a seemingly high and humane ideal can be corrupted and
distorted into a harmful practice. Medical research, with its power
to attract money and political support, and its promise of cures
for a wide range of medical burdens, has good and bad sides - which
are often indistinguishable. In "What Price Better Health?",
Callahan teases out the distinctions and differences, revealing the
difficulties that result when the research imperative is suffused
with excessive zeal, adulterated by the profit motive, or used to
justify cutting moral corners. Exploring the National Institutes of
Health's annual budget, the inflated estimates of health care cost
savings that result from research, the high prices charged by drug
companies, the use and misuse of human subjects for medical
testing, and the controversies surrounding human cloning and stem
cell research, Callahan clarifies the fine line between doing good
and doing harm in the name of medical progress. His work shows that
medical research must be understood in light of other social and
economic needs and how even the research imperative, dedicated to
the highest human good, has its limits.
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