Set No Limits: A Rebuttal to Daniel Callahan's Proposal to Limit Health Care for the Elderly

by Robert L. Barry (Editor)

Table of The Indivisibility of Lifew / Nat Hentoff -- PART Moral and Ethical Aspects of Age-Based Rationing -- 1.) Mandatory, Universal Age-Based Rationing of Scarce Medical Resources / Robert L. Barry -- 2.) Life as an Evil; Death as a Dualism and Callahan's Inversion / Robert P. George -------------- PART Legal and Jurisprudential Aspects of Age-Based Rationing -- 3.) When Bungling Practice Is Joined to Absurd Doctors Philosopher s, and the Right to Die / Hadley V. Arkes -- 4.) Target-The Elderly : A Nondiccrimination Perspective on Daniel Callahan's Setting Limits / Robert A. Destro -------------- PART Public Policy and Economic Aspects of Age-Based Rationing -- 5.) Rationing Health Legal Issues and Alternatives to Age-Based Rationing / Marshall Kapp -- 6.) Efficient Allocation of Health Care to the Elderly / Lawrence DeBrock -------------- 7.) Will the Real Daniel Callahan Please Stand Up? / Robert L. Barry

160 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1991