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This is a provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.
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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 "A thought-provoking and heart-jarring assessment of medical goals and aging in the United States today.
--AmericaCallahan 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 ReviewAn 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 MedicineA 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 BooksLogical and persuasive. . . . Provocative, well-based arguments from a respected voice.
--Kirkus ReviewsSynopsis
First published in 1987; however, "A Response to My Critics" is newly included. Callahan addresses the ethical problems of aging in a clear, compassionate manner, focusing debate on the immediate priorities of the health care system. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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- PublisherGeorgetown University Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0878405720
- ISBN 13 9780878405725
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages272
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