Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society with "A Response to My Critics"A provocative call to rethink America's values in health care. |
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Contents
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Medicine and the Conquest of Aging | 52 |
What Do the Young Owe the Old? | 82 |
Allocating Resources to the Elderly | 115 |
Care of the Elderly Dying | 159 |
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| Title | Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society with "A Response to My Critics" |
| Author | Daniel Callahan |
| Publisher | Georgetown University Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 1589018672, 9781589018679 |
| Length | 272 pages |
| Subjects | › Medical / Ethics |
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