...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...

...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...

...James J. Callahan, Jr. Elizabeth Anne Kutza, The Benefits of Old Age: Social Welfare Policy for the Elderly (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 187 pp., $5.95 paperback Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 282 Journal...

...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...

... for an Aging Population. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. 232 pp. $18.95 cloth. This thoughtful and useful collection of essays edited by Chris Hackler focuses on the issue of age-based rationing of health care, especially as advocated with some qualifications by Daniel Callahan. The essays...

...Daniel Sarewitz Daniel Callahan. False Hopes: Why America's Quest for Perfect Health Is a Recipe for Failure . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. 330 pp.$24.00 cloth; $17.00 paper. Robert Pollack. The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science . New York: Houghton Mifflin...

...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...

...Rick Mathis Daniel Callahan. Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. 288 pp. $29.95 cloth. Duke University Press 2010 Becker, E. 1973 . The Denial of Death . New York: Free Press...

...Nancy S. Jecker Joan C. Callahan, ed. Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law: Feminist Perspectives. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. 427 pp. $39.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 248 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law the women...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...Michael K. Gusmano © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 References Beauchamp D. E. 1988 . The Health of the Republic: Epidemics, Medicine, and Moralism as Challenges to Democracy . Philadelphia : Temple University Press . Callahan D. 2009 . Taming the Beloved Beast...