Daniel John Callahan

Background

Callahan, Daniel John was born on July 19, 1930 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Vincent Francis and Anita (Hawkins) Callahan.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1952; Master of Arts, Georgetown University, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1965; Honorary Doctor of Science, U. Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 1981; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Colorado, 1990; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Williams College, 1992; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Oregon State University, 1997.

Career

Executive editor, The Commonweal, New York City, 1961-1968; staff associate, Population Council, 1969-1970; co-founder, president, The Hastings Center, 1969-1996; director international programs, The Hastings Center, since 1997; resident scholar, Aspen Institute Humanistic Studies, 1975. Visiting assistant professor religion Temple University, 1064. Visiting assistant professor religiousstuies Brown U., 1965.

Visiting professor theology Marymount College, 1966. Visiting professor University of Pennsylvania, 1970. Senior fellow Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 1996.

Consultant medical ethics, judicial county American Medical Association, 1972-1982, American College of Physicians, since 1979. Special consultant Commision on Population Growth and American Future, 1970-1971,National Endowment for Humanities, 1979. Honorary professor Charles U. Medical School, Prague, since 1997.

Visiting scholar Harvard Medical School, since 1998.

Achievements

• Daniel John Callahan has been listed as a noteworthy Biomedical researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • The Tyranny of Survival

    (Originally published in 1973 by Macmillan, this probing b...)

  • What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress

    (A provocative call to rethink America's values in health ...)

  • Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society with "A Response to My Critics"

    (A provocative call to rethink America's values in health ...)

  • The secular city debate,

    (Secular City Debate, The, by Callahan, Daniel, Ed.)

  • Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society
  • Abortion: Law, Choice, and Morality

    (Book by Callahan, Daniel J.)

  • The tyranny of survival;: And other pathologies of civilized life

    (1973 HARDCOVER)

  • The Tyranny of Survival and Other Pathologies
  • setting Limits, Medical goals in an Aging Society
  • The American Population Debate
  • What Kind of Life?: The Limits of Medical Progress by Daniel Callahan (1995-02-01)
  • Abortion: Law, Choice and Morality

Membership

Member New York Council for Humanities, 1975-1979. Member National Book Award Committee, 1975, New York State Health Advisory Council, 1975-1976. Selection committee Ford-Rockefeller Program in Population Policy, 1975-1978, Rockefeller Foundation Program in Humanities, 1980.

Elector National Medal for Literature, 1979-1983. Public member American Board Medical Specialties, 1982-1987, New York Science Policy Association, 1985-1991. Member of New York Task Force on Life and Law, 1985-1987.

Member of national advisory board Health Promotion Program, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 1987-1991, New York Panel and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Screening, 1987. Trustee University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1987-1991. Member of advisory commission on science integrity Department of Health and Human Services, 1991-1993.

Advising committee to director Center for Disease Control, Department of Health and Human Services. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (Science Freedom and Responsibility award 1996). Member American Association for Advancement Humanities, Institute Medicine of NAS, Society for StudySocial Biology (board directors 1987-1995), Harvard Graduate Society (county 1989-1992).

Connections

Married Sidney Cornelia de Shazo, June 5, 1954. Children: Mark Sidney, Stephen Daniel, John Vincent, Peter Thorn, Sarah Elisabeth, David Lee.

Father:

Vincent Francis Callahan

Mother:

Anita (Hawkins) Callahan

Spouse:

Sidney Cornelia de Shazo

child:

Peter Thorn Callahan

child:

Sarah Elisabeth Callahan

child:

Mark Sidney Callahan

child:

John Vincent Callahan

child:

Stephen Daniel Callahan

child:

David Lee Callahan