What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative

Name: What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative
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ISBN: 9780520246645

ISBN-10: 0520246640

ISBN-13: 9780520246645

Edition: 2003

Authors: Daniel Callahan

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The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply rooted in American society and medicine. In this provocative work, Daniel Callahan exposes the ways in which such a seemingly high and humane ideal can be corrupted and distorted into a harmful practice. Medical research, with its power to attract money and political support, and its promise of cures for a wide range of medical burdens, has good and bad sides--which are often indistinguishable. In "What Price Better Health?, "Callahan teases out the distinctions and differences, revealing the difficulties that result when the research imperative is suffused with excessive zeal, adulterated by the profit…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 341
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: An Imperative?



The Emergence and Growth of the Research Imperative



Protecting the Integrity of Science



Is Research a Moral Obligation?



Curing the Sick, Helping the Suffering, Enhancing the Well



Assessing Risks and Benefits



Using Humans for Research



Pluralism, Balance, and Controversy



Doing Good and Doing Well



Advocacy and Priorities for Research



Research and the Public Interest


Notes


Index