| Preface | |
| Introduction to Ethics | |
| Ethical Theory and Bioethics | p. 1 |
| Patient-Professional Relationships | |
| Rights and Responsibilities | p. 33 |
| Professional Codes and Statements | |
| The Virtues and Obligations of Professionals | |
| Patients' Rights and Responsibilities | |
| Professionals and Specific Patient Populations | |
| The Management of Medical Information | p. 117 |
| Truth Telling and the Management of Bad News | |
| Informed Consent | |
| Patient Self-Determination and Advance Directives | |
| The Management of Confidential Information | |
| The Beginning and End of Life | |
| Abortion and Maternal-Fetal Relations | p. 189 |
| The Problem of Moral Justification | |
| Legal Issues of Abortion | |
| Maternal-Fetal Relationships and Rights | |
| Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide | p. 271 |
| Refusal of Treatment | |
| Voluntary Active Euthanasia | |
| Physician-Assisted Suicide | |
| The Right to Die | |
| Access to Health Care | |
| Justice in the Distribution of Health Care | p. 355 |
| Just Health Care and the Right to Health Care | |
| Managed Care and Universal Access | |
| Rationing and the Oregon Plan | |
| Biomedical Research and Technology | |
| Research Involving Human and Animal Subjects | p. 427 |
| Codes and Guidelines | |
| Ethical Issues in Human Research | |
| Past Abuses of Human Research Subjects | |
| Ethical Issues in Animal Research | |
| Eugenics and Human Genetics | p. 511 |
| Eugenics Programs in the Twentieth Century | |
| The Human Genome Project and Genetic Testing | |
| Human Gene Therapy and Genetic Enhancement | |
| Reproductive Technologies and Surrogate Parenting Arrangements | p. 607 |
| Parenting and the Family | |
| The Problem of Infertility | |
| In Vitro Fertilization | |
| Surrogate Parenting Arrangements | |
| Cloning | |
| Regulating Assisted Reproduction | |
| Public Health | |
| The Global AIDS Epidemic | p. 695 |
| General Issues | |
| The Duty to Warn and the Duty not to Harm | |
| Testing and Screening Programs | |
| Issues in Clinical Research on HIV/AIDS | |
| Suggested Readings | p. 782 |
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