Daniel Callahan

Daniel Callahan
Born	1930 (age 93–94)
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Harvard University (Ph.D.) Georgetown University (M.A.) Yale University (B.A.)
Scientific career
Fields	bioethics, philosophy, ethics, medical ethics, health policy

Daniel Callahan was born July 19, 1930. Callahan is a philosopher widely recognized for his innovative studies in biomedical ethics.·

In high school Callahan was a swimmer and choose to attend Yale University because of its competitive swimming program. While at Yale, he was drawn to interdisciplinary studies and graduated in 1952 with a double degree in English and Philosophy. He received a M.A from Georgetown University and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard in 1965. In 1955 Callahan married Sidney DeShazo, who shared many of his intellectual interests in psychology, ethics, and human behavior. Sidney Callahan is a distinguished social psychologist, teacher, and syndicated columnist in moral psychology. They have six children, five boys and one girl.

Daniel Callahan is a Senior Research Scholar and President Emeritus of the Hastings Center, a nonpartisan bioethics research institution he cofounded with Willard Gaylin in 1969. Callahan served as the center's president from its inception to September 1, 1996. He currently co-directs the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy. Dr. Callahan is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; a former member of the Director's Advisory Committee, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and of the Advisory Council, Office of Scientific Responsibility, Department of Health and Human Services. He was awarded the Freedom and Scientific Responsibility Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1996.

He is the author or editor of 41 books, including Taming the Beloved Beast: Why Medical Technology Costs are Destroying Our Health Care System (Princeton University Press, August 2009); Medicine and the Market: Equity vs. Choice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006); What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative (University of California Press, 2003); False Hopes (Simon & Schuster & Rutgers University Press, 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 Callahan, Abortion: Understanding Differences (1984). He has contributed articles to Daedalus, Harpers, The Atlantic, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, The New Republic, Health Affairs, and other journals. Over the years his research and writing have covered a wide range of issues, from the beginning until the end of life. In recent years, he has focused his attention on ethics and health policy.

External links

• Hastings Center bio