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- Book: Taming The Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying our Health Care System
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Book: Taming The Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying our Health Care System
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Air date: November 1, 2009
Hosts: Eric Meslin, PhD, Barbara Lewis
Interview: Daniel Callahan, PhD, senior researcher, The Hastings Center
Time now for our monthly conversation with Sound Medicine’s bioethicist, Dr. Eric Meslin. You’ll hear from him in a moment.
We start, though, with another well-known thinker in the field of bioethics, Daniel Callahan, a senior researcher at the Hastings Center, who has written a new book with a provocative title: Taming The Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying our Health Care System.
Additional Resources:
- The IU Center for Bioethics web site.
- The Hastings Center web site.
- Daniel Callahan's book, Taming the Beloved Beast is from Princeton University Press.
- Not everyone agrees with Callahan's argument. A recent paper from Columbia University economist Frank Lichtenberg reports that high tech saves money, and lives, in the long run.
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