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November 6, 2009: Health Care and the Common Good
Hastings Center bioethicist and philosopher Daniel Callahan says the common good as a moral value should be the foundation for American health care reform, but it has been largely absent from the current public debate.
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November 6, 2009: The Aim of Health Care
Read an excerpt from a new book on medical technology costs and health care by Daniel Callahan, who advocates "an open discussion on what counts as good or bad choices, wise or imprudent ones, and our social obligations to our community as we make them."
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November 6, 2009: Healing the Wounds of War
Revisit our November 2007 Web-only essay on dealing with the spiritual and moral pain of war. "My sense is that this is a fundamentally religious issue," says clinical psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, an expert on combat trauma. "It's possible to package it as a mental health issue, but I think we lose out."
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October 23, 2009: Doctors, Patients, and Prayer
Doctors who pray with patients and family members "puts a sense of comfort in you," says Chris Barkley. "Normally, doctors don't do that, and it probably makes people feel closer to the doctor. You want them to care just as much as you do."
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October 16, 2009: Autistic Poet
An 11-year-old autistic girl writes poetry about her inner world.
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October 16, 2009: Abortion and Health Care Reform
"Abortion is a health service, " says Rev. Debra Haffner, director of the Religious Institute. "Abortion is a morally objectionable activity," says Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life.
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October 16, 2009: Abortion and Health Care Reform Extended Interviews
Watch more of Kim Lawton’s interviews with Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, and Rev. Debra Haffner, executive director of the Religious Institute.
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October 9, 2009: End of Life Decisions
"I want to just go peacefully. The only medications I want are going to be the ones that are going to comfort me. That’s all I want," says Jill Steuer, a nurse with advanced-stage breast cancer who has decided to stop any kind of treatment and receive hospice care.
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October 9, 2009: Father Damien’s Legacy
On October 11, the 19th-century missionary priest Father Damien will be canonized in Rome and remembered for dedicating his life to individuals with leprosy, a disease that still afflicts more than 250,000 people a year.
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September 4, 2009: Personalized Genetic Testing
Is the promise of direct-to-consumer genetic testing being oversold? What ethical and public policy concerns does selling genetic tests directly to the public raise?
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