After Harm
In a recent article in the New Yorker, physician Atul Gawande detailed how badly the American health-care system de...
What wasn't discussed: Schiavo and the health care system
The Terri Schiavo case stirred much moral controversy over what constitutes ordinary care for the dying and what respect we should show for the wishes of the dying....
Squelching moral debate
This is a very good book, but not because it brings good news. John H....
False Hopes, by Daniel Callahan
Medicine, Daniel Callahan argues, has become the sustainer of false hope in the face of death and dissolution....
The Changing Face of Health Care, and Patient-Caregiver Relationships, edited by John F. Kilner, Robert D. Orr and Judith Allen Shelly
Edited by John F. Kilner, Robert D....
Healthy alternatives
By Pat and Hugh Armstrong, with Claudia Fegan, M.D., Universal Healthcare: What the United States Can Learn from the Canadian Experience. (New Press, 176 pp.)...