False Hopes
Why America's Quest for Perfect Health is a Recipe for Failure
1st Edition
Published on 10. April 1998
336 pages
978-1-4391-3641-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Daniel Callahan
False Hopes
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04/1998
Simon & Schuster Ltd
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Daniel John Callahan was a philosopher who played a leading role in developing the field of biomedical ethics as co-founder of The Hastings Center, the world's first bioethics research institute.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- CHAPTER ONE Creating a Sustainable Medicine
- CHAPTER TWO Arguing with Success: Progress and the Medical Dream
- CHAPTER THREE Sustainable Technology: A Medical Oxymoron?
- CHAPTER FOUR Two-faced Nature: Medical Friend or Medical Foe?
- CHAPTER FIVE Self, Society, and Suffering
- CHAPTER SIX Public Health and Personal Responsibility
- CHAPTER SEVEN Can This Marriage Succeed? Medicine and the Market
- CHAPTER EIGHT Equity and a Steady-State Medicine
- CHAPTER NINE Sustainable Medicine, Sustainable Hope
- Notes
- Index
