False Hopes
Why America's Quest for Perfect Health is a Recipe for Failure
Description
This ground-breaking book by one of the nation's leading experts on medical ethics, Daniel Callahan, traces the root cause of America's health-care crisis not to inefficient organization or waste, but rather to society's and the medical community's relentless quest for perfection.
Pages336
Released1998
LanguageEnglish
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN9781439136416
SellerSimon & Schuster
About the author(s)
Daniel John Callahan was a philosopher who played a leading role in developing the field of biomedical ethics as co-founder of The Hastings Center, the world's first bioethics research institute.
