Daniel Callahan (1930–2019)

Author of The secular city debate

About the Author

Daniel Callahan is one of the nation's most distinguished and widely quoted experts on medical ethics. The director of international programs at the Hastings Center, he was its director and cofounder

Includes the names: John Daniel Callahan, Daniel John Callahan, 1930-

Disambiguation Notice:

See other works of this author listed as Daniel J. Callahan and Daniel G. Callahan - cf. LC 80087712 and LC 2004086771.

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The Foundations of Ethics and Its Relationship to Science

Works by Daniel Callahan

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The secular city debate (1966) — Editor — 87 copies

The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful Death (1993) 72 copies

Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society (1987) 66 copies

What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress (1990) 62 copies

False Hopes: Why Americas Quest for Perfect Health Is a Recipe for Failure (1998) 31 copies, 2 reviews

The mind of the Catholic layman (1999) 26 copies

Abortion: law, choice, and morality (1970) 22 copies

Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System (2009) 21 copies

Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice (2006) 20 copies

What Price Better Health?: Hazards of the Research Imperative (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, 9) (2003) 19 copies

Honesty in the church (1965) 17 copies

In Search of the Good: A Life in Bioethics (2012) 15 copies, 1 review

The Five Horsemen of the Modern World: Climate, Food, Water, Disease, and Obesity (2016) 14 copies

God, Jesus, and Spirit (1969) 14 copies

Ethics Teaching in Higher Education (The Hastings Center Series in Ethics) (1980) 14 copies

The role of theology in the university (1967) 14 copies

A World Growing Old: The Coming Health Care Challenges (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics) (1995) 13 copies

The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Accommodating Pluralism (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics) (2001) 12 copies

Ethics, the social sciences, and policy analysis (1983) — Editor — 8 copies, 1 review

The Catholic case for contraception (1969) 8 copies

Biomedical ethics : an Anglo-American dialogue (1988) 8 copies

Knowing and Valuing: The Search for Common Roots (1980) — Editor — 7 copies

Promoting Healthy Behavior: How Much Freedom? Whose Responsibility? (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics series) (2000) 7 copies

The Roots of ethics : science, religion, and values (1981) 6 copies

The new church;: Essays in Catholic reform (1966) 5 copies

Morals, science, and sociality (1978) — Editor — 5 copies, 1 review

The Roots of Bioethics: Health, Progress, Technology, Death (2012) 5 copies

Generation of the third eye 4 copies, 1 review

The American Population Debate 4 copies

The Tyranny of Survival (1985) 3 copies

Euclid's "Elements" Redux (2014) 2 copies

Plane Geometry (Euclid's Elements Redux) (Volume 1) (2017) 2 copies

Dibattito su «La città secolare» (1972) 1 copy

The Secular City: Toward a Theology of Secularity 1 copy, 1 review

266 Solutions to Problems from Linear Algebra 4th ed., Friedberg, Insel, Spence (2016) 1 copy

Number Theory: Euclid's Elements Redux, Vol. 2 (2019) 1 copy

Feles et Canis, Fabula Latina Animalium (2021) 1 copy

The Daniel Callahan Reader 1 copy

What Kind of Life: A Challenging Exploration of the Goals of Medicine 1 copy

The Unauthorized Solutions Manual to "Linear Algebra" 4th ed. by Friedberg, Insel, Spence (2013) 1 copy

Euclid's Elements Redux Volume II: Inscription, Circumscription, Proportions, Number Theory (Volume 2) (2016) 1 copy

Euclid's Elements Redux Volume I: Angles, Rectangles, Circles (Volume 1) (2016) 1 copy

Catholiques et protestants; confrontations theologiques sur l'ecriture, et la tradition 1 copy

Sinceridad en la Iglesia 1 copy

Ethics and Population Limitation (Occasional paper of the Population Council) (1971) 1 copy

Ethical issues of population aid : culture, economics, and international assistance (1982) 1 copy

Applying the humanities (1985) 1 copy

Congress and the media : the ethical connection (1985) 1 copy

El Bien individual y el bien común en bioética (2009) 1 copy

Los Fines de la medicina = Els fins de la medicina (2008) 1 copy

Laßt sie sanfter entschlafen : Die moderne Medizin hat dem Tod den Krieg erklärt - und verdrängt dadurch das friedliche Sterben. Ein Plädoyer für ein besseres Verhältnis zu… 1 copy

The Catholic attitude toward a familial minimum wage, (Catholic University of America. Studies in Sacred Theology) (1936) 1 copy

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The Best American Political Writing 2002 (2002) — Contributor — 27 copies

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Legal name: Callahan, Daniel John
Birthdate: 1930-07-19
Date of death: 2019-07-16
Gender: male
Education: Harvard University (1965 ∙ PhD ∙ Philosophy)
Yale University (BA|1952)
Georgetown University (MA|1954)
Occupations: ethicist
philosopher
bioethicist
Organizations: Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences (founder; later became Hastings Center)
Relationships: Gaylin, Willard (colleague)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA
Place of death: Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA
Disambiguation notice: See other works of this author listed as Daniel J. Callahan and Daniel G. Callahan - cf. LC 80087712 and LC 2004086771.
Associated Place (for map): USA

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muir 260 reviews

False Hopes by Daniel Callahan

The vain search for health utopia.

Nov 9, 20071 other review

vegetarian 866 reviews

Ethics, the Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis by Daniel Callahan

Kenneth Prewitt (Census 2000) wrote an interesting chapter.

Dec 13, 2011

mdstarr 239 reviews

False Hopes: Why Americas Quest for Perfect Health Is a Recipe for Failure by Daniel Callahan

The vain search for health utopia.

Sep 11, 20111 other review

Schmerguls 5,855 reviews

Generation of the Third Eye by Daniel Callahan

874 Generation of the Third Eye, edited by Daniel Callahan (read 18 Oct 1966) This collection of essays was put together by Callahan, who from 1961 to 1968 was with The Commonweal, and in 1967 became executive editor thereof. I confess I do not remember much about the book.

Feb 15, 2010 (Edited)

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