Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society With "a Response to My Critics"

Callahan, Daniel

ISBN 10: 0878405720 / ISBN 13: 9780878405725

Published by Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., 1995

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272pp. Light shelfwear. Seller Inventory # 002640

Bibliographic Details

Title: Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging ...

Publisher: Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C.

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Paperback Printing

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Synopsis:

This is a provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.

Review:

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.

--America

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

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

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

Logical and persuasive. . . . Provocative, well-based arguments from a respected voice.

--Kirkus Reviews