| Description |
319 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"A Touchstone book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Why we must set limits / Daniel Callahan -- Voices of the old / Martha Holstein -- Longer lives, harder choices / David Blumenthal -- Setting limits : from rationing to rationalizing health care / T. Patrick Hill -- Pied piper returns for the old folks / Nat Hentoff -- Letting individuals decide / Terrie Wetle and Richard W. Besdine -- Seek vision, not limits / Steven Miles -- Setting medical limits / Joseph Fletcher -- Return of eugenics / Richard John Neuhaus -- Is there any future in being old? / Thomas H. Murray -- Daniel Callahan's public problem / James P. Wind -- Medical care--and caring / Ezekiel J. Emanuel -- Tough choice on health care costs / William B. Schwartz and Henry J. Aaron -- Aim not just for longer life, but expanded 'health span' / Daniel Perry and Robert N. Butler -- Spare the old, save the young / Amitai Etzioni -- Setting limits or promoting health? / Anne R. Somers -- Getting from 'I' to 'we' / Larry R. Churchill -- Limits of medicine / Stanley Hauerwas -- Health care entitlements and the elderly : a liberal critique of Setting limits / Dan W. Brock -- Disenfranchising the elderly from life-extending medical care / Nancy S. Jecker -- Setting limits : for whose benefit? / Peter Singer -- Toward a public dialogue on the meaning of aging and the aged / Monsignor Charles J. Fahey -- Limits of Setting limits / Christine K. Cassel -- Balancing our capacity to hope with our need to cope : the role of science in creating health-cost dilemmas / Robert Morris -- |
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(cont) Generational equity and the public policy debate : quagmire or opportunity? / Meredith Minkler -- Setting the wrong limits : class biases and the biographical standard / Elizabeth A. Binney and Carroll L. Estes -- Rationing health care : legal issues and alternatives to age-based schemes / Marshall B. Kapp -- 'Natural' limits to health care / Harry R. Moody -- Debating Setting limits / Martha Holstein -- Afterword : Daniel Callahan responds to his critics. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Older people -- Medical care -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Ethics, Medical -- United States.
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Health Services for the Aged -- economics -- United States.
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Quality of Life -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Homer, Paul.
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Holstein, Martha.
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Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019.
Setting limits.
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| ISBN |
0671684396 hardcover $21.95 |
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9780671684396 hardcover |
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0671707396 paperback $9.95 |
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9780671707392 paperback |
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