Daniel Callahan, Ph.D., cofounded The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY, and was its Director and President from 1969 to 1996. The Hastings Center is a research and educational organization founded in 1969 to examine ethical issues of medicine, biology, and the environment. Currently, he serves as Director of its International Programs and as Senior Fellow at the Harvard Medical School. He is also an Honorary Faculty Member, Charles University Medical School, Prague, the Czech Republic. Dr. Callahan received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard, his M.A. from Georgetown University, and his B.A. 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 member of the Director's Advisory Committee, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and a former member of the Advisory Council, Office of Scientific Integrity, US Department of Health and Human Services. He won the 1996 Freedom and Scientific Responsibility Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Callahan is the author or editor of 35 books, the most recent of which include: False Hopes: Why America's Quest for Perfect Health Is a Recipe for Failure (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998); The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful Death (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993); and What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990). He has contributed articles to Daedalus, Harper's, The Atlantic, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, The New Republic, and other journals.