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This is a provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.
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"Logical and persuasive.... Provocative, well-based arguments from a respected voice." -- "Kirkus Reviews"
"Callahan addresses the problems of aging in a clear, comprehensive, sensitive, and compassionate manner. This is a pivotal work that poses hard questions and proposes provocative answers. "Setting Limits" promises to be the benchmark for future moral, medical and policy discussions of aging." -- "New York Times Book Review"
"A thought-provoking, in some ways profound, work....a morally courageous book, challenging current widespread assumptions that we should prolong life by increasing medical care even if the result is worsening health throughout the United States." -- "New York Review of Books"
"A thought-provoking and heart-jarring assessment of medical goals and aging in the United States today." -- "America"
"An intelligent, profound, and challenging volume that should be assiduously chewed and digested by medical, legal, ethical, and policy professionals and all others who have a stake in the vital issues it raises." -- "Journal of Legal Medicine"
"Callahan's book should be read -- but very carefully -- by anyone interested in aging, older persons, health care, and issues of morality in American society....This book is likely to be a point of reference in such discussions for some time to come." -- Robert H. Binstock and Jeff Kahana, "The Gerontologist"
Callahan's book should be read -- but very carefully -- by anyone interested in aging, older persons, health care, and issues of morality in American society....This book is likely to be a point of reference in such discussions for some time to come.--Robert H. Binstock and Jeff Kahana "The Gerontologist "
Callahan's book should be read but very carefully by anyone interested in aging, older persons, health care, and issues of morality in American society. . . . This book is likely to be a point of reference in such discussions for some time to come.--Robert H. Binstock and Jeff Kahana "The Gerontologist ""
Callahan's book should be read but very carefully by anyone interested in aging, older persons, health care, and issues of morality in American society. . . . This book is likely to be a point of reference in such discussions for some time to come.
--Robert H. Binstock and Jeff Kahana "The Gerontologist ""Callahan's book should be read--but very carefully--by anyone interested in aging, older persons, health care, and issues of morality in American society. . . . This book is likely to be a point of reference in such discussions for some time to come.
--Robert H. Binstock and Jeff Kahana "The Gerontologist ""About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherHarperCollins Distribution Services
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0671224778
- ISBN 13 9780671224776
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
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