HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: THE BIOETHICS PERSPECTIVE

Daniel Callahan was the co-founder of The Hastings Center, Garrison, N.Y., and its Director and President from 1969 to 1996. He is presently a Senior Researcher and President Emeritus at the Center. He has been a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School, and is now a Senior Scholar, Institute of Politics and Policy Studies, Yale University. He is also an Honorary Faculty Member, Charles University Medical School, Prague, the Czech Republic. The Hastings Center is a research and educational organization founded in 1969 to examine ethical issues of medicine, biology and the environment. Dr. Callahan received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, an MA from Georgetown University, and his B.A. fromYale. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, a former member of the Director’s Advisory Committee, Centers for Disease Control, and of the Advisory Council, Office of Scientific Integrity, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He won the 1996 Freedom and Scientific Responsibility Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was awarded the Centennial Medal of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2006. Dr. Callahan is the author or editor of 41 books. They include Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs are Destroying Our Health Care System (Princeton University Press),Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006);What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative (University of California Press, 2003); False Hopes (Simon & Schuster, 1998); The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful Death (Simon & Schuster, 1993);What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress (Simon & Schuster, 1990); Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society (1987); The Tyranny of Survival (1973);Abortion: Law, Choice and Morality (1970); Ethics in Hard Times (1982); and, with his wife, Sidney,Abortion: Understanding Differences (1984).