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| Preface | |
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| The Educational Experience of Disciplinary Controversy | |
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| Correlation Guide | |
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| Topic Guide | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Medical Decision Making | |
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| Is Autonomy Still Central to Medical Ethics? | |
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| Yes: Robert M. Arnold and Charles W. Lidz, from "Informed Consent: Clinical Aspects of Consent in Health Care," in Stephen G. Post, ed., Encyclopedia of Bioethics, vol. 3, 3rd ed. (Macmillan, 2003) | |
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| No: Onora O'Neill, from Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics? (Cambridge University Press, 2002) | |
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| May Surrogate Decision Makers Terminate Care for a Person in a Persistent Vegetative State? | |
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| Yes: Jay Wolfson, from A Report to Governor Jeb Bush and the 6th Judicial Circuit in the Matter of Theresa Marie Schiavo (December 2003) | |
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| No: Tom Koch, from "The Challenge of Terri Schiavo: Lessons for Bioethics," Journal of Medical Ethics (2005) | |
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| Should Adolescents Be Allowed to Make Then-Own Life-and-Death Decisions? | |
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| Yes: Robert F. Weir and Charles Peters, from "Affirming the Decisions Adolescents Make About Life and Death," Hastings Center Report (November-December 1997) | |
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| No: Lainie Friedman Ross, from "Health Care Decisionmaking by Children" Hastings Center Report (November-December 1997) | |
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| End-Of-Life Dilemmas | |
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| Have Advance Directives Failed? | |
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| Yes: Angela Fagerlin and Carl E. Schneider, from "Enough: The Failure of the Living Will," Hastings Center Report (March-April 2004) | |
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| No: Susan E. Hickman et al., from "Hope for the Future: Achieving the Original Intent of Advance Directives," Hastings Center Report (November-December 2005) | |
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| Is "Palliative Sedation" Ethically Different from Active Euthanasia? | |
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| Yes: American Medical Association, from "Sedation to Unconsciousness in End-of-Life Care," Report of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (June 2008) | |
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| No: Margaret P. Battin, from "Terminal Sedation: Pulling the Sheet Over Our Eyes," Hastings Center Report (September-October 2008) | |
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| Should Physicians Be Allowed to Assist in Patient Suicide? | |
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| Yes: Marcia Angell, from "The Supreme Court and Physician-Assisted Suicide-The Ultimate Right," The New England Journal of Medicine (January 2, 1997) | |
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| No: Kathleen M. Foley, from "Competent Care for the Dying Instead of Physician-Assisted Suicide," The New England Journal of Medicine (January 2, 1997) | |
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| Choices in Reproduction | |
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| Is Abortion Immoral? | |
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| Yes: Patrick Lee and Robert P. George, from "The Wrong of Abortion," in Andrew Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman, eds., Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell, 2004) | |
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| No: Margaret Olivia Little, from "The Morality of Abortion;" in Bonnie Steinbock, John D. Arras, and Alex John London, eds., Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine (McGraw-Hill, 2002) | |
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| Should There Be Legal Limits on How Many Embryos Can Be Transferred into a Woman Who Wants to Be Pregnant? | |
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| Yes: David Orentlicher, from "Multiple Embryo Transfers: Time for Policy," Hastings Center Report (May/June 2010) | |
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| No: John A. Robertson, from "The Octuplet Case-Why More Regulation Is Not Likely," Hastings Center Report (March/April 2009) | |
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| Should a Pregnant Woman Be Punished for Exposing Her Fetus to Risk? | |
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| Yes: Liles Burke, from Hope Elisabeth Ankrom v. State of Alabama (May 26, 2011) | |
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| No: Lynn M. Paltrow, from "Punishment and Prejudice: Judging Drug-Using Pregnant Women," in Julia A. Hanigsberg and Sara Ruddick, eds., Mother Troubles: Rethinking Contemporary Maternal Dilemmas (Beacon Press, 1999) | |
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| Professional Integrity | |
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| Should Physicians Be Allowed to Participate in Executions? | |
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| Yes: David Waisel, from "Physician Participation in Capital Punishment," Mayo Clinic Proceedings (September 2007) | |
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| No: Atul Gawande, from "When Law and Ethics Collide-Why Physicians Participate in Executions," The New England Journal of Medicine (March 23, 2006) | |
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| Should Pharmacists Be Allowed to Deny Prescriptions on Grounds of Conscience? | |
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| Yes: Donald W. Herbe, from "The Right to Refuse: A Call for Adequate Protection of a Pharmacist's Right to Refuse Facilitation of Abortion and Emergency Contraception," Journal of Law and Health (2002/2003) | |
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| No: Julie Cantor and Ken Baum, from "The Limits of Conscientious Objection-May Pharmacists Refuse to Fill Prescriptions for Emergency Contraception?" The New England Journal of Medicine (November 4, 2004) | |
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| The Development and Use of Biotechnology | |
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| Is the Use of Medical Tools to Enhance Human Beings Morally Troubling? | |
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| Yes: President's Council on Bioethics, from Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness (U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003) | |
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| No: Howard Trachtman, from "A Man Is a Man Is a Man," The American Journal of Bioethics (May/June 2005) | |
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| Should Performance-Enhancing Drugs Be Banned from Sports? | |
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| Yes: Thomas H. Murray, from "Making Sense of Fairness in Sports," Hastings Center Report (March/April 2010) | |
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| No: Julian Savulescu, Bennett Foddy, and Megan Clayton, from "Why We Should Allow Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sport," British Journal of Sports Medicine (December 2004) | |
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| May Doctors Offer Medical Drugs and Surgery to Stop a Disabled Child from Maturing? | |
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| Yes: Sarah E. Shannon, from "In Support of the Ashley Treatment," Pediatric Nursing (March/April 2007) | |
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| No: Teresa A. Savage, from "In Opposition of the Ashley Treatment," Pediatric Nursing (March/April 2007) | |
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| Should Scientists Create Artificial Organisms? | |
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| YES: Mark A. Bedau, from "The Intrinsic Scientific Value of Reprogramming Life," Hastings Center Report (July/August 2011) | |
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| No: Christopher J. Preston, from "Synthetic Biology: Drawing a Line in Darwin's Sand," Environmental Values (February 2008) | |
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| Access to Health Care | |
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| Is an Individual Mandate to Purchase Health Insurance Fair? | |
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| Yes: Karen Davenport, from "Should Everyone Be Required to Have Health Insurance? Yes: It's the Key to Reform," The Wall Street Journal (January 23, 2012) | |
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| No: Michael F. Cannon, from "Should Everyone Be Required to Have Health Insurance? No: Premiums Will Rise," The Wall Street Journal (January 23, 2012) | |
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| Is There an Ethical Duty to Provide Health Care for All Immigrants to the United States? | |
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| Yes: Rajeev Raghavan and Ricardo Nuila, from "Survivors-Dialysis, Immigration, and U.S. Law," The New England Journal of Medicine (June 9, 2011) | |
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| No: James Dwyer, from "When the Discharge Plan Is Deportation: Hospitals, Immigrants, and Social Responsibility," Bioethics (vol. 23, no. 3, 2009) | |
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| Should New Drugs Be Given to Patients Outside Clinical Trials? | |
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| Yes: Emil J. Freireich, from "Should Terminally Ill Patients Have the Right to Take Drugs that Pass Phase I Testing?" British Medical Journal (September 8, 2007) | |
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| No: George J. Annas, from "Cancer and the Constitution-Choice at Life's End," The New England Journal of Medicine (July 26, 2007) | |
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| Should Vaccination for HPV Be Mandated for Teenage Girls? | |
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| Yes: R. Alta Charo, from "Politics, Parents, and Prophylaxis-Mandating HPV Vaccination in the United States," New England Journal of Medicine (May 10, 2007) | |
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| No: Gail Javitt, Deena Berkowitz, and Lawrence O. Gostin, from "Assessing Mandatory HPV Vaccination: Who Should Call the Shots?" The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (Summer 2008) | |
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| Should There Be a Market in Human Organs? | |
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| Yes: Sally Satel, from "Kidney for Sale: Let's Legally Reward the Donor," Globe and Mail (March 10, 2010) | |
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| No: The Institute of Medicine Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation, from Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action (2006) | |
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| Contributors | |