Bøker av Daniel Callahan

Introducing the Baby Dino! Coloring Book - a delightful adventure for young explorers! Dive into a world of prehistoric wonder with this captivating coloring book, filled with 128 pages of adorable baby dinosaurs waiting to be brought to life with vibrant colors.Let your child's imagination soar as they embark on a journey through time, discovering a variety of baby dinosaurs in their natural habitats. From the gentle Triceratops to the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex, each page offers an exciting opportunity for artistic expression and learning.Designed with care, this coloring book features intricate illustrations that will engage children of all ages. The large format of each page allows for easy coloring and encourages creativity. As they fill in the pages, young artists will develop their fine motor skills and artistic abilities.This Baby Dinosaur Coloring Book is not just a source of entertainment but also an educational tool. Accompanying each illustration are interesting facts about the dinosaurs, helping children learn about these fascinating creatures while having fun.Whether your child is a dinosaur enthusiast or simply loves coloring, this Baby Dinosaur Coloring Book is the perfect gift. It provides hours of entertainment, sparks creativity, and fosters a love for learning. Watch as your child's eyes light up with joy as they bring these baby dinosaurs to life with their artistic flair.Don't miss out on this exciting adventure! Grab your copy of the Baby Dinosaur Coloring Book today and let the coloring journey begin!

The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply rooted in American society and medicine. In this provocative work, Daniel Callahan exposes the ways in which such a seemingly high and humane ideal can be corrupted and distorted into a harmful practice. Medical research, with its power to attract money and political support, and its promise of cures for a wide range of medical burdens, has good and bad sides-which are often indistinguishable. In What Price Better Health?, Callahan teases out the distinctions and differences, revealing the difficulties that result when the research imperative is suffused with excessive zeal, adulterated by the profit motive, or used to justify cutting moral corners. Exploring the National Institutes of Health's annual budget, the inflated estimates of health care cost savings that result from research, the high prices charged by drug companies, the use and misuse of human subjects for medical testing, and the controversies surrounding human cloning and stem cell research, Callahan clarifies the fine line between doing good and doing harm in the name of medical progress. His work shows that medical research must be understood in light of other social and economic needs and how even the research imperative, dedicated to the highest human good, has its limits.

In recent decades, we have seen five perilous and interlocking trends dominate global discourse: irreversible climate change, extreme food and water shortages, rising chronic illnesses, and rampant obesity. Why can't we make any progress in counteracting these problems despite vast expenditures of intellectual, institutional, and social capital? What makes these global emergencies the "e;wicked problems"e; that resist our best efforts and only grow more daunting?Daniel Callahan, noted author and the nation's preeminent scholar in bioethics, examines these global problems and shines a light on the institutions, practices, and actors that block major change. We see partisan political and ideological forces, old-fashioned hucksters, and trumped-up scientific disagreements but also the problem of modern progress itself. Obesity, anthropogenic climate change, degenerative diseases, ecological degradation, and global famine are often the unintended consequences of unchecked industrial growth, insatiable eating habits, and technologically extended life spans. Only through well-crafted political, regulatory, industrial, and cultural counterstrategies can we change enough minds to check these threats. With big thinking on issues that are usually evaluated separately, this book is sure to scramble partisan divides and provoke unusual, heated debate.

Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish? Yet is it not also harmful to let rising costs strangle our health care system, eventually harming everyone? In Taming the Beloved Beast, esteemed medical ethicist Daniel Callahan confronts this dilemma head-on. He argues that we can't escape it by organizational changes alone. Nothing less than a fundamental transformation of our thinking about health care is needed to achieve lasting and economically sustainable reform. The technology bubble, he contends, is beginning to burst. Callahan weighs the ethical arguments for and against limiting the use of medical technologies, and he argues that reining in health care costs requires us to change entrenched values about progress and technological innovation. Taming the Beloved Beast shows that the cost crisis is as great as that of the uninsured. Only a government-regulated universal health care system can offer the hope of managing technology and making it affordable for all.

A provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.

A provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.

Drawing on literature, philosophy, and medicine, this title offers insight into how to deal with the rewards of modern medicine without upsetting our perception of death. It examines how we view death and the care of the critically ill or dying, and suggests ways of understanding death that can lead to a peaceful acceptance.