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Sidney Callahan on her latest book, Created for Joy: A Christian View of Suffering Daniel Callahan on his current research project, Sidney Callahan is an author, lecturer, college professor, and licensed psychologist. In 2002-2003, she held the Paul J. McKeever Chair of Moral Theology, St. John's University, Queens, NY and she was a Professor of Psychology at Mercy College from 1980-1997. She received her B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College, her M.A. in Psychology from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology from the City of New York. Callahan has written many articles, books, and columns devoted to religious, psychological, and ethical questions. She is author of In Good Conscience: Reason and Emotion in Moral Decision Making (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1991); With All Our Heart and Mind: The Spiritual Works of Mercy in a Psychological Age (New York: Crossroads/Continuum, 1988 [Winner of Christopher Award, 1988]); Abortion: Understanding Differences, Co-edited with Daniel Callahan (New York: Plenum Press, 1984); and Parenting: Principles and Politics of Parenthood (New York: Doubleday, 1973).
Daniel Callahan was a cofounder of The Hastings Center in 1969 and served as its President from 1969 - 1996. Over the years his interests have ranged widely, from the beginning to the end of life. In recent years he has concentrated his attention on health policy and research policy. Serving now as Director of the International Program, he coordinates contacts and discussions with colleagues in different parts of the world. 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. A related interest is that of globalization and it impact on health status in different parts of the world. He is also a member of the Center team working on conflict of interest, with a special focus on disclosure as a means of dealing with it. In addition to his work at the Center, he is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Medical School and a Senior Fellow at Yale. He is also an Honorary Faculty Member of the Charles University Medical School in Prague, the Czech Republic. Mr. Callahan received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, an MA from Georgetown University, and his BA from Yale. He holds honorary degrees from Oregon State University, the University of Colorado, Williams College, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science; a former 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. Mr. Callahan is the author or editor of 39 books, including Medicine and the Market: Equity vs. Choice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006); The Research Imperative: What Price Better Health? (University of California Press, 2003); False Hopes (Simon & Schuster & Rutgers University Press, 1998); The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful Death (Simon & Schuster, 1993); What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress (Simon & Schuster, 1990); Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society (1987); The Tyranny of Survival (1973); Abortion: Law, Choice and Morality (1970); Ethics in Hard Times (1982); and, with his wife, Sidney Callahan, Abortion: Understanding Differences (1984). He has contributed articles to Daedalus, Harpers, The Atlantic, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, The New Republic, and other journals. |
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