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The Hastings Center at 50: Looking Back and Ahead
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A Single-Payer Bubble?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIn an earlier piece, “Trumping Drug Costs,” I looked at out-of-pocket costs as the pivotal issue with drugs. They can be a particularly heavy burden on the elderly, taking money from their savings and a large bite of their Social Security income. Along the way, I also looked at out-of-pocket medi...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Palliative Care vs. Cancer Research
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe death of former first lady Barbara Bush at age 92 was noteworthy in many ways. She was by all accounts smart, sharp and funny, and a fine, helpful wife to one president and mother to another. Her death last week after a long illness, with her husband at her side, was a model of palliative care su...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
The Climate Agreement: Understanding, and Leveraging, Public Opinion
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Aging
Read the PostFrom Bioethics BriefingsFraming the Issue The aging of modern societies–a striking fruit of medical advances and improved economic and living standards–is one of the most important global challenges, affecting rich and poor countries alike. Most people in developed countries live long lives and die slowly of chronic dis...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
The Good of the Body
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe December 2015 United Nations meeting on climate change was an historic moment for global efforts to reduce harmful carbon emissions. While it gained the agreement about the future good of the planet, it made clear that there is a long and hard road still ahead. Yet another global challenge is ...Read the Post - From Bioethics Briefings
Health Care Costs and Medical Technology
Read the PostFrom Bioethics BriefingsFraming the Issue Almost everyone knows that this country has a scandalously large number of people who lack health insurance, now up to 46 million and growing. That number is vivid and evocative. But it has overshadowed another, more serious issue—that of the steady escalation of health care costs...Read the Post - From Bioethics Briefings
Bioethics and Policy—A History
Read the PostFrom Bioethics BriefingsThe word “ethics” makes many people nervous. It can connote religious or ideological dogmatism, hard-nosed rules about right and wrong. Or it can mean an endless quest to determine just what is right or wrong, a quest burdened by 2,500 years of disagreement. Yet whatever one perceives ethics ...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
The Death of a Pet: A Glimpse into the Human Future
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayFor some years I have been writing about end-of-life care and, of late, focusing on the high costs of that care. I recently had a painful but revealing insight into what the future might look like on both costs and decision-making. It came about from an unexpected angle of vision, the care provi...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
The Trial of “Death by Medicine”: An Interview with Lisa Krieger
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayOn February 5, Lisa Krieger, a science and medicine writer for the Mercury News in San Jose, Ca, published a remarkably moving and insightful article about the protracted dying of her 88-year-old father. Suffering from advanced dementia he contracted septicemia, was admitted to the ICU of the Sta...Read the Post
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Daniel Callahan – A Remembrance
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Daniel Callahan, 1930-2019
Read the PostHastings Center NewsDaniel Callahan, a national voice for responsible health and science who pioneered the field of bioethics, died on July 16, three days before his 89th birthday. A prodigious author and one of the world’s preeminent bioethics scholars, Callahan cofounded The Hastings Center, the world’s first bio...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Daniel Callahan: In Memoriam
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayDaniel Callahan, a national voice for responsible health and science, who pioneered the field of bioethics, died on July 16, three days before his 89th birthday. In 1969, Callahan cofounded The Hastings Center with Willard Gaylin. Callahan served as the Center’s director from 1969 to 1983, preside...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
Daniel Callahan Receives Health Care Ethics Medal
Read the PostHastings Center NewsHastings Center cofounder and President Emeritus Daniel Callahan was awarded the 2018 Edmund Pellegrino Medal for Healthcare Ethics. The award, given annually by Samford University’s Center for Faith and Health, honors individuals recognized nationally as leaders for their contributions to health c...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
Daniel Callahan Pays Tribute to Two Hastings Center Fellows
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Cofounder Daniel Callahan Organizes Global Health Meeting
Read the PostHastings Center NewsDaniel Callahan, cofounder and president emeritus of The Hastings Center, organized a daylong meeting to explore urgent issues in global health and discuss ways that bioethics can help address them. The meeting, which took place at the Center on November 1, focused on the stark disparities in access ...Read the Post - Hastings Center News
New Book by Hastings Cofounder Daniel Callahan
Read the PostHastings Center NewsIn his new book, Daniel Callahan, cofounder and President Emeritus of The Hastings Center, takes on five global crises: climate change, food shortages, water shortages and quality, chronic illness and obesity. “I have not been able to find any global crises of similar magnitude in terms of death, m...Read the Post MEDIA ADVISORY: 11.02.12 Daniel Callahan and Marcia Angell on Death with Dignity Ballot Initiative
Read the Post(Garrison, NY) New commentaries by Daniel Callahan, cofounder of The Hastings Center, and Marcia Angell, M.D., senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School, give opposing views on the Massachusetts ballot initiative to legalize physician assistance in dying. The commentaries appe...Read the PostPRESS RELEASE: 11.19.12 Two New Books by Daniel Callahan: A Memoir and a Collected Writing on “Roots of Bioethics”
Read the Post(Garrison, NY) Daniel Callahan, who established the field of bioethics with the co-founding of The Hastings Center in 1969, has two new books: a memoir, In Search of the Good: A Life in Bioethics (MIT Press) and collection of his writing, The Roots of Bioethics: Health, Progress, Technology, Death (...Read the Post
