In Search of the Good: A Life in Bioethics

by Daniel Callahan

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 distance from the concerns of real life,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018489
• ISBN13: 9780262018487
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher