Sunday, 16 September 2012

What Price Better Health?

What Price Better Health?
Author: Daniel Callahan
Edition: New Ed
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520246640
Category: Medical



What Price Better Health?: Hazards of the Research Imperative (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public)


The idea that we have an unlimited moral imperative to pursue medical research is deeply rooted in American society and medicine. Download What Price Better Health? medical books for free.
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 motive, or used to justify cutting moral corn Get What Price Better Health? our bestseller medical books.

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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 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 motive, or used to justify cutting moral corn

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