Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America

Two eminent scholars present an examination of American healthcare and bioethics, considering the deep ways they have affected and changed American culture over the last sixty years. From the house calls of the 1950s to todays modern medical landscape, this book considers how Americans want everything possible from medical science but rarely stop to debate or consider its merits. This book shows how wanting it all but never considering consequences has led to the current situation where Americans pay more for healthcare than the rest of the world, while having the worst outcomes in terms of life expectancies and high infant mortality.

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