About
Daniel Callahan
Director, International Program, The Hastings Center, Garrison, N.Y., and Senior Fellow, Harvard Medical School
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Daniel Callahan is co-founder of The Hastings Center, Garrison, N.Y., a research and educational organization established in 1969 to examine ethical issues of medicine, biology, and the environment. He served as director and president of the center for its first 27 years and is presently director of the International Program. In recent years he has concentrated his attention on health policy and research policy. His project on medicine and the market is examining the impact of market theory, thinking, and practice on health care systems, with a special focus on issues of equity and health care costs. He is also a Senior Fellow at Harvard Medical School, directing its ethics program, and an honorary faculty member of Charles University Medical School in Prague, Czech Republic.
Dr. Callahan received his B.A. from Yale (1952), an M.A. from Georgetown University (1957), and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard (1965). He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science; a member of the Director's Advisory Committee, Centers for Disease Control; and a former member of the Advisory Council, Office of Scientific Integrity, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He won the 1996 Freedom and Scientific Responsibility Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Callahan is author, co-author, or editor of more than 35 books, including Costs, Choice, and Equity: Medicine and the Market (2005); What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative (2003); False Hopes: Overcoming the Obstacles to an Affordable, Sustainable Medicine (1998); The Troubled Dream of Life: Living with Mortality (1993); and What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress (1990).