Set No Limits: A Rebuttal to Daniel Callahan's Proposal to Limit Health Care for the Elderly

University of Illinois Press, October 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good+ No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . . . . . . TOC: PROLOGUE: The Indivisibility of Lifew / Nat Hentoff -- PART ONE: Moral and Ethical Aspects of Age-Based Rationing -- 1.) Mandatory, Universal Age-Based Rationing of Scarce Medical Resources / Robert L. Barry -- 2.) Life as an Evil; Death as a Good: Dualism and Callahan's Inversion / Robert P. George -------------- PART TWO: Legal and Jurisprudential Aspects of Age-Based Rationing -- 3.) When Bungling Practice Is Joined to Absurd Theory: Doctors Philosopher s, and the Right to Die / Hadley V. Arkes -- 4.) Target-The Elderly : A Nondiccrimination Perspective on Daniel Callahan's Setting Limits / Robert A. Destro -------------- PART THREE: Public Policy and Economic Aspects of Age-Based Rationing -- 5.) Rationing Health Care: Legal Issues and Alternatives to Age-Based Rationing / Marshall Kapp -- 6.) Efficient Allocation of Health Care to the Elderly / Lawrence DeBrock -------------- 7.) EPILOGUE: Will the Real Daniel Callahan Please Stand Up? / Robert L. Barry . . . . . . . . . . . . 'This book was written by a group of concerned professors from various disciplines in response to Daniel Callahan's Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society. The book states that Callahan's ideas amount to 'medical totalitarianism', inverting the Western Tradition concerning the value of life by making death sometimes good and life sometimes evil. According to the book, Callahan's views have in the past been adopted by the American Medical Association. This book represents the wisdom a diverse group of experts who sounded the alarm 19 years ago against what would in the current debate be called death panels.' -- Amazon Reader Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.