Bioethics with Dr. Daniel Callahan
Presenter:
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Daniel Callahan
Director of International Programs
The Hastings Center
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Daniel Callahan was the co-founder and President of The Hastings
Center, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. from 1969 to 1996. He is presently
Director of its international programs and Senior Associate for Health
Policy. The Center is a research and eductional organization founded
in 1969 to examine ethical issues of medicine, biology and the
environment.
Dr. Callahan received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard, an
M.A. from Georgetown University, and his B.A. from Yale.
Dr. Callahan holds honorary degrees from the University of
Colorado, Williams College, and the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey. He is an elected member of the Institute of
Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the Advisory
Committee, Centers for Disease Control; and a former member of the
Advisory Council, Office of Scientific Integrity, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services. He won the 1996 Freedom and Scientific
Responsibility Award of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.
Dr. Callahan is the Author or editor of 33 books. They include:
- The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful Death
(Simon &Schuster, 1993);
- What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress
(Simon & Schuster, 1990);
- Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society (1987);
- Tyranny of Survival (1973);
- Abortion: Law, Choice and Morality (1970);
- Ethics in Hard Times (1982);
and, with his wife, Sidney,
- Abortion: Understanding Differences (1984).
He has contributed articles to:
- Daedalus,
- The Atlantic,
- The New England Journal of Medicine,
- Journal of the American Medical Association,
- The New Republic,
and other journals.
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