...James J. Callahan, Jr. 282 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law out that measurement can also profoundly benefit the person making the measurements. A few excerpts make the point: Another consideration is the morale of the staff who work with the chronically impaired, often...

...James Callahan Frank L. Schick, Statistical Handbook on Aging Americans (Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1986). Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 208 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law in medical arrangements, economic circumstances and range of political conflict...

...James J. Callahan, Jr. Charles A. Kiesler and Amy A. Sibulkin, Mental Hospitalization: Myths and Facts About a National Crisis (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1987). Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Book Reviews 765 of governors...

...Ronald Bayer; Daniel Callahan Despite Medicare's success as a social program, its future is in question because of the program's enormous costs. Because the issue of Medicare reform has been forced upon us at this juncture by a crisis of finance rather than by the longstanding inequities...

...James J. Callahan, Jr. Teresa Schwab, Caring for an Aging World: International Models for Long-Term Care, Financing, and Delivery (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989), 376 pp., $38.95. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Book Reviews 641...

...James S. House; Daniel Callahan Robert G. Evans, Morris L. Barer, and Theodore R. Marmor, eds. Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of Health of Populations . New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994. 380 pp. $52.95 cloth, $23.95 paper. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University...

... on the issue of age-based rationing of health care, especially as advocated with some qualifications by Daniel Callahan. The essays were presented at a conference held in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1989 and organized around the discussion of Daniel Callahan’s book, Setting Lim- its: Medical Goals in an Aging...

...Daniel Sarewitz 988 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Review Essay Death Takes No Holiday Daniel Callahan, False Hopes: Why America’s Quest for Perfect Health Is a Recipe for Failure. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. 330 pp...

...Michael Reagan Robert H. Blank, Rationing Medicine (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 290 pp., $25.00. Daniel Callahan, Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1987), 256 pp. Larry R. Churchill, Rationing Health Care...

.... DOI 10.1215/03616878-2010-007 430 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Review Daniel Callahan. Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technol- ogy Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press...

... constructed ideals of female roles and female beauty? Mary G. Winkler, University of Texas Medical Branch Joan C. Callahan, ed. Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law: Feminist Per- spectives. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. 427 pp. $39.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Reproduction...

... Review Daniel Callahan. Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technol- ogy Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. 288 pp. $29.95 cloth. Ernest Becker won critical acclaim and a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for a book that examines how elements...

.... DOI 10.1215/03616878-2010-007 430 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Review Daniel Callahan. Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technol- ogy Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press...

... York: Routledge. DOI 10.1215/03616878-2010-007 430 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Review Daniel Callahan. Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technol- ogy Costs Are Destroying Our...

... -68. Callahan , D. 1973 . The WHO Definition of “Health”. The Hastings Center Studies 1 : 77 -87. Campbell , E. J. M. , J. G. Scadding, and R. S. Roberts. 1979 . The Concept of Disease. British Medical Journal 2 ( September ): 757 -62. Freedman , B. 1983-85 . Study...

..., Ethics, and the Law: Feminist Perspectives. Joan Callahan, ed. Bloom- ington: Indiana University Press, 1996. 416 pp. $39.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. Reproduction, Technology, and Rights. James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder, eds. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 1996. 168 pp. $44.50 cloth. Reproductive...

.... Callahan , D. 1987 . Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society. New York: Simon and Schuster. Cohen , W. J. 1985 . Reflections on the Enactment of Medicare and Medicaid. Health Care Financing Review Annual Supplement: 3 -11. Fairlie , H. 1988 . Talkin' about My Generation...

... generates “value for money,” a concept that is gaining ground in the United States as well (Gusmano and Callahan 2011 ). But how has economic evaluation actually worked outside the United States? What are the strengths and limits of this approach? Does economic evaluation in practice fulfill...

... House. Callahan , Daniel . 1987 . Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society. New York: Simon and Schuster. Canale , Dee J. et al. 1986 . Panel Discussion. In Life and Death Issues, ed. James Hamner ID and Barbara Jacobs. Memphis: University of Tennessee. Caplan , Arthur L...

... that health care inflation is not a problem is clearly a minor- ity view. Most experts agree that the cost of health care undermines the affordability of health insurance, access to care, and the establishment of an equitable health care system (Callahan 2009; Marmor, Oberlander, and White 2009...