Daniel Callahan: 14 books
Taming the Beloved Beast
How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
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....
The Troubled Dream of Life
In Search of a Peaceful Death
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2000
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 ways...
Dying in the Twenty-First Century
Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.
Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither see death nor prepare for it. But this has not always been the case. In the early fifteenth...
The Five Horsemen of the Modern World
Climate, Food, Water, Disease, and Obesity
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
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...
False Hopes
Why America's Quest for Perfect Health is a Recipe for Failure
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 1998
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.
Mother Time
Women, Aging, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2000
This collection of original essays opens up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimension of women's experiences of aging. Fifteen distinguished contributors here explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life....
Original Zombie
(Compendium)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Zombie Original, The Compendium is the Complete and Uncensored Post Apocalyptic Zombie Series whick looks into a not to distant future plagued with Zombies. This series Maintains a fast vigenette style of writing that is hard to find, and even harder to put down as it brings you through the wild west...
by Daniel Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Zombie 3 is the Continuation of the Zombie Series, A post apocalyptic, Sci-Fi Survival horror Adventure. Continuing the Original Zombie1 story line and progressing into many of the characters backgrounds, and metting new characters. Some see Zombie 3 as the End of a great series, many see it as just...
American Catholics, American Culture
Tradition and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
by Daniel Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Zombie 2 is the Continuation of the Zombie Series, A post apocalyptic, Sci-Fi Survival horror Adventure. Highlighting This is a prequel to the Original Zombie1 story. This book and entire series are written for a Mature audience only. Contains elements of language, sex, and violence. Enjoy
Rethinking Masculinity
Philosophical Explorations in Light of Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 1996
The new edition of this popular book is reorganized to present pairs of contrasting views on what it means to be a man in contemporary Western culture. Addressing such issues as sex differences, fatherhood, intimacy, homosexuality, and oppression; the collection also includes new discussions of paternity,...
In Search of the Good
A Life in Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
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.
Tradition v. Rationalism
Voegelin, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
In the first half of the twentieth century, the rationalist tide had reached its high mark in the arts, politics, and work. But the Holocaust, the Gulag, and other failures have dimmed the popularity of rationalism. However, the evidence of those practical failures would not have been as convincing...
The Rock-Art of Eastern North America
Capturing Images and Insight
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in 12 states and 4 Canadian provinces.
In archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology...