Daniel Callahan's life time work in bioethics has again and again returned to the root problems of health, progress, technology, and death. How we think about each of them individually and in relation to each other will shape the way we approach and deal with the most common dilemmas of modern medicine. They are at the roots of the field.

• Introduction


• 1. The Hastings Center and the Early Years of Bioethics


• 2. A Memoir of An Interdisciplinary Career


• 3. Minimalist Ethics


• 4. Individual Good and Common Good


• 5. The WHO Definition of Health


• 6. End-of-Life Care: A Management or Philosophical Problem?


• 7. Death, Mourning and Medical Progress


• 8. Terminating Life-Sustaining Treatment For The Demented


• 9. Killing and Allowing to Die: Why It Is A Mistake To Derive and "Is" from an "Ought"


• 10. Rationing: Theory, Passion, and Politics


• 11. Consumer-Directed Health Care: Promise Or Puffery?


• 12. Social Allocation of Resources For Patients with ESDR


• 13. Shaping Biomedical Research: The Case of NIH


• 14. Time For a Change: Planning Our Medical Future


• 15. Too Much of A Good Thing: How Splendid Technologies Can Go Wrong


• 16. Demythologizing The Stem Cell Juggernaut


• 17. Health Technology Assessment Implementation: The Politics of Ethics


• 18. Bioethics and Fatherhood

Senior Research Scholar, President Emeritus and co-founder, Hastings Center of Bioethics. Co-director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy. Authof of 41 books including most recently Taming the Beloved Beast: Why Medical Technology Costs are Destroying Our Health Care System (Princeton University Press, August 2009); Medicine and the Market: Equity vs. Choice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).