Daniel Callahan (1930-2019)

Abstract

Daniel Callahan, cofounder of The Hastings Center, prodigious author, and pioneer in bioethics, died on July 16, 2019, three days before his eighty-ninth birthday. Callahan created The Hastings Center with Willard Gaylin in 1969. He served as its director from 1969 to 1983 and president from 1984 to 1996, and he continued as a scholar and president emeritus until his death, publishing books and essays and leading research projects. Tributes published in the days following Callahan's death celebrated him for his role in creating bioethics, for his challenging questions and unconventional thinking, and for his ability to do incisive scholarship in a way that had a public impact.