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Curriculum by Design
This book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process …
A World Growing Old
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 …
Taming the Beloved Beast
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 …
The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
At the center of the debate over complementary and alternative medicine - from acupuncture and chiropractic treatments to homeopathy and nutritional supplements - is how to …
What Price Better Health?
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 …
Euthanasia Examined
Whether euthanasia or assisted suicide should be legalised is one of the most pressing and profound questions facing legislators, health-care professionals, their patients and …
Promoting Healthy Behavior
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 …
Setting Limits
This is a provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.
What Kind of Life?
This is a provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.
Voting With a Porpoise
A pod of dolphins (and their porpoise friend, Petey) is in trouble. Their reef no longer provides the food they need to survive. The pod can't figure out what to do until Petey …
The Troubled Dream of Life
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 …
What Price Mental Health?
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. …