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The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful Death

The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful Death

Daniel Callahan

Drawing on his own experience, and on literature, philosophy, and medicine, Daniel Callahan offers great insight into how to deal with the rewards of modern medicine without upsetting our perception of death.
Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are ...

Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are ...

Daniel Callahan

Yet is it not also harmful to let rising costs strangle our health care system, eventually harming everyone? In Taming the Beloved Beast, esteemed medical ethicist Daniel Callahan confronts this dilemma head-on.
The Roots of Bioethics: Health, Progress, Technology, Death

The Roots of Bioethics: Health, Progress, Technology, Death

Daniel Callahan

Daniel Callahan's life time work in bioethics has again and again returned to the root problems of health, progress, technology, and death.
Seven Collages

Seven Collages

Harry M. Callahan

The images exemplify Callahan's unassuming virtuosity. Harry Callahan (1912-1999), born in Detroit, began his career as an amateur photographer.
Conversations With Tom Petty

Conversations With Tom Petty

Paul Zollo

... D.C., Joel Bernstein, D.C., D.C., J.B. Page 7: Dennis Callahan Page 8: Joel Bernstein (top), Dennis Callahan (bottom photos) Photo Section 2 Page 1: Merry Alpera for Lynn Goldsmith Inc., Dennis Callahan, Steve Wilson, D.C., Neal Preston, ...
What Kind of Life?: The Limits of Medical Progress

What Kind of Life?: The Limits of Medical Progress

Daniel Callahan

A provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.
Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society with A ...

Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society with A ...

Daniel Callahan

A provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.
Harry Callahan: The Street

Harry Callahan: The Street

Grant Arnold

Bringing together documentary work, still life and staged photographs--many of his wife, whom he photographed throughout his life--this important review sheds new light on Callahan’s personal and pioneering approach.
The Fifth Week

The Fifth Week

William J. O'Malley

So Joe O'Callahan rounded up a “shell brigade” to crawl with him into the turret and pass the shells from hand to blistered hand to be dropped ... Lieutenant Commander Joseph Timothy O'Callahan, S.J., was the first chaplain 82 Chapter ...
Abortion: law, choice, and morality

Abortion: law, choice, and morality

Daniel Callahan

A detailed discussion of worldwide abortion laws and attitudes and the ways in which new moral and legal codes might be established
Between The Tides

Between The Tides

Patti Callahan Henry

New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry portrays a woman burdened by the past—and the choices she must face to break free of it—in this emotional, engaging novel.
Inferno

Inferno

August Strindberg

Among those new arrivals was a quiet thirty-nine-year-old priest named Father Joseph Timothy O'Callahan. Before the war, Father O'Callahan taught at Boston College and was ordained on June 30, 1934. He later received a master of arts, ...
Losing the Moon

Losing the Moon

Patti Callahan Henry

In this vibrant debut novel from New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry, a happy wife and mother discovers that she still secretly cherishes memories of her very first love.
Blackrobe in Blue: The Naval Chaplaincy of John P. Foley, ...

Blackrobe in Blue: The Naval Chaplaincy of John P. Foley, ...

Steve O'Brien

12 Richard J. Dowling, S.J., “Father Joseph Timothy O'Callahan, S.J.” 1–4, and a vital statistics data sheet, both found in the O'Callahan Papers, Archives of the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Though disabled by ...
Eleanor

Eleanor

Harry M. Callahan

Yet he cherished no photographs more than the images of his wife, Eleanor, which form an intimate visual diary of a lifestyle and a relationship. This is the definitive publication of Callahan's photographs of Eleanor.
World War 2 In Review: American Seapower

World War 2 In Review: American Seapower

Merriam Press

Chaplain O'Callahan, faculty member at Holy Cross College before and after the war and a scholar who loved both ... Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on 14 May 1905, Joseph Timothy O'Callahan was educated at St. Mary's parochial school ...
The Tyranny of Survival: And Other Pathologies of Civilized Life

The Tyranny of Survival: And Other Pathologies of Civilized Life

Daniel Callahan

Originally published in 1973 by Macmillan, this probing book examines the uses, control and consequences of technology in a world which must either take realistic stock of its obsession with unbridled progress and individual freedom or ...
Saving Big Ben: The USS Franklin and Father Joseph T. O'Callahan

Saving Big Ben: The USS Franklin and Father Joseph T. O'Callahan

John Satterfield

Amen.1 hen Joseph Timothy O'Callahan drew his firstbreath, on May 14, 1905,he entered a world of massive change. Changes in societies and cultures wereso pervasive, unprecedented, and radical thatin many casesdecades would pass ...
World War II Medal of Honor Recipients

World War II Medal of Honor Recipients

Philip Martin McCaulay

O'CALLAHAN, JOSEPH TIMOTHY Rank and organization: Commander ( Chaplain Corps), U.S. Naval Reserve, U.S.S. ... Joseph Timothy O'Callahan was the Jesuit priest who would later be described as "the bravest man I ever saw" by his ...
The Stories We Tell: A Novel

The Stories We Tell: A Novel

Patti Callahan Henry

Bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry is back with a powerful novel about the stories we tell and the people we trust.
Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S. Military: An ...

Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S. Military: An ...

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O'Callahan, Joseph T. (1904-1964), Irish American Chaplain and Medal of Honor Recipient in World War II Joseph Timothy O'Callahan was born on May 14, 1904, into an Irish Catholic family in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts.
And Then I Found You: A Novel

And Then I Found You: A Novel

Patti Callahan Henry

And Then I Found You gives new life to the phrase "inspired by a true story." By travelling back to a painful time in her own family's history, author Patti Callahan Henry explores the limits of courage, and the price of a selfless act.
What Price Better Health?: Hazards of the Research Imperative

What Price Better Health?: Hazards of the Research Imperative

Daniel Callahan

In this book, the author teases out the distinctions and differences, revealing the difficulties that result when the research imperative is suffused with excessive zeal, adulterated by the profit motive, or used to justify cutting moral ...
Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... ...

Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... ...

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... Jerry Simms Caler, John Earl Callahan, Gary Wilson Callahan, Jeffrey Edwin Callaway, Leigh Lawrence Callies, Lee Roy Calloway, Charles Lee Cameron, John Ross Campbell, Archibald George Campbell, David Russell Campbell, James ...
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

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These four generations of Daniel in direct succession : James Daniel, Cunningham Daniel, Robert C. Daniel, and his sons William and John Daniel, have served the old church which has been called Liberty, Salem and Woodstock ... for more ...
Irish Renaissance Annual II

Irish Renaissance Annual II

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General Editor Managing Editor Editors Editorial Associates Associate Managing Editors Zack Bowen Dennis Jackson James Carens Daniel Casey Richard Finneran Patrick McCarthy William Murphy Raymond Callahan Emmet Larkin Bonnie ...
The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico: Chicana/o ...

The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico: Chicana/o ...

Alan Eladio Gómez

In Texas: Luis Alvarez, Estevan Azcona, Manolo Callahan, Emmet Campos, Alex Chávez, Veronica Delgado, Melissa Forbis, Tamara Ford, Rebecca Gamez, Gloria Garza, Jennifer Goett, Pablo Gonzalez, Daniel Guerra, Cale Layton, Veronica ...
The Story of Wilkes County, Georgia

The Story of Wilkes County, Georgia

Eliza A. Bowen

Thus four generations of Daniels in direct succession viz., James Daniel, Cunningham Daniel, Robert C. Daniel and his sons William and John Daniel have served the old church which has been called Liberty, Salem, Woodstock. This family ...
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Williams' Cincinnati Directory ...

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