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  • The Troubled Dream of Life

    In Search of a Peaceful Death

    Drawing on his own experience, and on literature, philosophy, and medicine, Daniel Callahan offers great insight into how to deal with the rewards of modern medicine without upsetting our perception of death. He examines how we view death and the care of the critically ill or dying, and he suggests ways of understanding death that can lead to a peaceful acceptance. Callahan's thoughtful ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zombie 2

    Series series Zombie
    Zombie 2 is the Continuation of the Zombie Series, A post apocalyptic, Sci-Fi Survival horror Adventure. Highlighting This is a prequel to the Original Zombie1 story. This book and entire series are written for a Mature audience only. Contains elements of language, sex, and violence. Enjoy ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Original Zombie

    (Compendium)

    Series series Zombie series
    Zombie Original, The Compendium is the Complete and Uncensored Post Apocalyptic Zombie Series whick looks into a not to distant future plagued with Zombies. This series Maintains a fast vigenette style of writing that is hard to find, and even harder to put down as it brings you through the wild west that earth now is, and presents us with the possibility of a blade runner-esque planet known as ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Zombie 3

    Series series Zombie
    Zombie 3 is the Continuation of the Zombie Series, A post apocalyptic, Sci-Fi Survival horror Adventure. Continuing the Original Zombie1 story line and progressing into many of the characters backgrounds, and metting new characters. Some see Zombie 3 as the End of a great series, many see it as just another step towards mankinds ultimate survival on Hope. This book and entire series are written ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • The Five Horsemen of the Modern World

    Climate, Food, Water, Disease, and Obesity

    In recent decades, we have seen five perilous and interlocking trends dominate global discourse: irreversible climate change, extreme food and water shortages, rising chronic illnesses, and rampant obesity. Why can't we make any progress in counteracting these problems despite vast expenditures of intellectual, institutional, and social capital? What makes these global emergencies the "wicked ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • False Hopes

    Why America's Quest for Perfect Health is a Recipe for Failure

    This ground-breaking book by one of the nation's leading experts on medical ethics, Daniel Callahan, traces the root cause of America's health-care crisis not to inefficient organization or waste, but rather to society's and the medical community's relentless quest for perfection. ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Taming the Beloved Beast

    How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System

    Why health care reform must tackle the escalating cost of medical technologyTechnological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • In Search of the Good

    A Life in Bioethics

    Series series Basic Bioethics
    One of the founding fathers of bioethics describes the development of the field and his thinking on some of the crucial issues of our time.Daniel Callahan helped invent the field of bioethics more than forty years ago when he decided to use his training in philosophy to grapple with ethical problems in biology and medicine. Disenchanted with academic philosophy because of its analytical bent and ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Medicine and the Market

    Equity v. Choice

    Series series Bioethics
    Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice MagazineMuch has been written about medicine and the market in recent years. This book is the first to include an assessment of market influence in both developed and developing countries, and among the very few that have tried to evaluate the actual health and economic impact of market theory and practices in a wide range of national settings.Tracing ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The social sciences playa variety of multifaceted roles in the policymaking process. So varied are these roles, indeed, that it is futile to talk in the singular about the use of social science in policymaking, as if there were one constant relationship between two fixed and stable entities. Instead, to address this issue sensibly one must talk in the plural about uses of dif ferent modes of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Ethics Teaching in Higher Education

    Edited by Sissela Bok, Daniel Callahan ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    A concern for the ethical instruction and formation of students has always been a part of American higher education. Yet that concern has by no means been uniform or free from controversy. The centrality of moral philosophy in the undergraduate curriculum during the mid-19th Century gave way later during that era to the first signs of increasing specialization of the disciplines. By the middle of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Abortion: Understanding Differences

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    SIDNEY CALLAHAN AND DANIEL CALLAHAN This book, like many other things to do with abortion, is a product of long controversy. Though carried out with cooperation, it was conceived in conflict. The conflict between the coeditors has per sisted for years-in fact, for at least half of their thirty-year marriage. One, Sidney, is prolife; the other, Daniel, is prochoice. Ever since the topic of abortion ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD