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Biography of Daniel Callahan
Name: Daniel Callahan
Birth Date: July 19, 1930
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Washington, DC, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: philosopher, scholar
Daniel Callahan
Daniel Callahan (born 1930) was a philosopher widely recognized for his innovative studies in biomedical ethics. The co-founder of the Hastings Center, an internationally-acclaimed research institute for biomedical ethics, Callahan was best known for proposing that a looming crisis in health care resources would require society to set priorities and limits on medical care.Daniel Callahan was born in Washington, D.C., on July 19, 1930. As a youth he was afflicted with a variety of maladies that resulted in several hospital stays. These experiences disposed him to an interest in matters of medicine, although this interest was not fully realized until later in his life.Callahan's athletic prowess as a swimmer in high school led him to choose Yale University, the nation's best college for competitive swimming in the early 1950s, for his undergraduate education. At Yale he found himself drawn immediately to interdisciplinary studies, and he graduated in 1952 with a double …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…a sound recording. In his own view, however, his most significant accomplishment was to foresee the importance of biomedical ethics and to undertake the initiative to begin a movement that achieved international renown. Further Reading A prolific author, Daniel Callahan is the author or editor of 30 books and the author of over 250 articles, reviews, and public policy testimony. Recommended readings include: The Troubled Dream of Life: Living with Mortality (1993); What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress (1990); Setting Limits: Medical Coals in an Aging Society (1987); Abortion: Understanding Differences (1984); Abortion: Law, Choice, and Morality (1970); and False Hopes: Why America's Quest for Perfect Health is a Recipe for Failure (1998). Also recommended is A Good Old Age? The Paradox of "Setting Limits" (1990), edited by Paul Homer and Martha Holstein. See also Warren T. Reich, ed., Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 4 vols. (1978).Other useful articles can be found in The Lancet, June 15, 1996 and Change, November-December 1996.
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