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32 produkter
Abortion: Understanding Differences
Av Sidney Callahan, Daniel Callahan
Häftad, 2011
568 kr
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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 conflict between the coeditors has per sisted for years-in fact, for at least half of their …
The Five Horsemen of the Modern World
Climate, Food, Water, Disease, and Obesity
Inbunden, 2016
357 kr
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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 obesity. Why can't we make any progress in counteracting these problems despite vast expenditures of …
Ethics Teaching in Higher Education
Av Daniel Callahan, Sissela Bok
Häftad, 2011
552 kr
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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 centrality of moral philosophy in the undergraduate curriculum during the mid-19th Century gave way later …
Roots of Ethics
Science, Religion, and Values
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
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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 captured by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason, where he noted three basic human questions: …
The Roots of Bioethics
Health, Progress, Technology, Death
Inbunden, 2012
1696 kr
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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 …
In Search of the Good
E-bok, 2012
436 kr
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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 than forty years ago when he decided to use his training in philosophy to grapple with ethical …
Applying the Humanities
Av Daniel Callahan, Arthur L. Caplan m. fl.
Inbunden, 1985
1089 kr
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Representation and Responsibility
Exploring Legislative Ethics
Av Bruce Jennings, Daniel Callahan
Inbunden, 1985
1630 kr
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What Price Better Health?
Hazards of the Research Imperative
Häftad, 2006
382 kr
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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. …
What Price Better Health?
Hazards of the Research Imperative
E-bok, 2003
446 kr
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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. …
Taming the Beloved Beast
How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
Häftad, 2018
256 kr
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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 enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. …
What Price Mental Health?
The Ethics and Politics of Setting Priorities
Av Philip J. Boyle, Daniel Callahan
Häftad, 1995
821 kr
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Regardless of the fate of national health care reform, public policy makers will have to make difficult and tragic choices about which health services are more or less important. This volume, the first comprehensive examination of setting mental health services priorities, systematically explores …
Setting Limits
Medical Goals in an Aging Society with "A Response to My Critics"
Häftad, 1995
797 kr
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This is a provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.
What Kind of Life?
The Limits of Medical Progress
Häftad, 1995
797 kr
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This is a provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.
World Growing Old
The Coming Health Care Challenges
Häftad, 1996
429 kr
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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 backgrounds and countries discuss resource allocation for the elderly and debate plans for the years …
Troubled Dream of Life
In Search of a Peaceful Death
Häftad, 2000
629 kr
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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 of death. He examines how we view death and the care of the critically ill or dying, and he suggests …
Promoting Healthy Behavior
How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility?
Häftad, 2001
821 kr
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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 transmitted disease is rampant. Why? These intriguing essays examine the ethical and social problems …
Taming the Beloved Beast
How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
E-bok, 2009
412 kr
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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 health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with …
False Hopes
Why America''s Quest for Perfect Health is a Recipe for Failure
E-bok, 1998
226 kr
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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, but rather to society''s and the medical community''s relentless quest for perfection.
Abortion: Understanding Differences
Av Daniel Callahan, Sidney Callahan
E-bok, 2012
734 kr
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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 conflict between the coeditors has per sisted for years-in fact, for at least half of their …
Ethics Teaching in Higher Education
Av Sissela Bok, Daniel Callahan
E-bok, 2012
734 kr
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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 centrality of moral philosophy in the undergraduate curriculum during the mid-19th Century gave way later …
Roots of Ethics
Science, Religion, and Values
E-bok, 2013
734 kr
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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 captured by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason, where he noted three basic human questions: …
Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis
Av Bruce Jennings, Daniel Callahan
E-bok, 2012
734 kr
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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 policymaking, as if there were one constant relationship between two fixed and stable entities. …
Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis
Av Daniel Callahan, Bruce Jennings
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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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 policymaking, as if there were one constant relationship between two fixed and stable entities. …
266 Solutions to Problems from Linear Algebra 4th ed., Friedberg, Insel, Spence
Häftad
310 kr
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Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Accommodating Pluralism
Häftad, 2004
445 kr
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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 effectiveness of a particular treatment. Fourteen scholars from the fields of medicine, philosophy, …
World Growing Old
The Coming Health Care Challenges
E-bok, 1996
806 kr
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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 backgrounds and countries discuss resource allocation for the elderly and debate plans for the years …
Goals of Medicine
The Forgotten Issues in Health Care Reform
Av Daniel Callahan, Mark J. Hanson
E-bok, 2000
806 kr
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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 the goals and priorities of medicine as from the way systems function. This book asks basic …
Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Accommodating Pluralism
E-bok, 2001
806 kr
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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 effectiveness of a particular treatment. Fourteen scholars from the fields of medicine, philosophy, …
Troubled Dream of Life
In Search of a Peaceful Death
E-bok, 2000
780 kr
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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 of death. He examines how we view death and the care of the critically ill or dying, and he suggests …
