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Rights | |
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Physicians, Patients, and Others: Autonomy, Truth Telling, and Confidentiality | |
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Cases and Contexts | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Donald (Dax) Cowart Rejects Treatment-and Is Ignored | |
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Social Context | |
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Autism and Vaccination | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Suffer the Little Children? | |
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Social Context | |
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The HPV Vaccine: Hope or Hype? | |
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Social Context | |
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Placebos and Transparency | |
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Social Context | |
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Health Cops: How Much Regulation Is Too Much? | |
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Social Context | |
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Medical Tourism | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Healing the Hmong | |
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Case Presentation | |
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The Vegan Baby | |
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Briefing Session | |
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Autonomy | |
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Paternalism | |
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State Paternalism in Medical and Health Care | |
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Personal Paternalism in Medical and Health Care | |
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Informed Consent and Medical Treatment | |
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Free and Informed Consent | |
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Parents and Children | |
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Pregnancy and Autonomy | |
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Truth Telling in Medicine | |
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Placebos | |
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Dignity and Consent | |
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Confidentiality (Privacy) | |
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Breaching Confidentiality | |
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Duty to Warn? | |
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Managed Care | |
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HIPA Regulations | |
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Ethical Theories: Autonomy, Truth Telling, Confidentiality | |
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Decision Scenarios | |
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Research Ethics and Informed Consent | |
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Cases and Contexts | |
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Social Context | |
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Face Transplants: The Dream of Looking Ordinary | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Abigail Alliance v. FDA: Do Terminally III People Have a Right to Take Experimental Drugs? | |
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Social Context | |
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Prisoners as Test Subjects? | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Jesse Gelsinger: The First Gene-Therapy Death | |
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Social Context | |
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The Cold-War Radiation Experiments | |
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Case Presentation | |
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The Willowbrook Hepatitis Experiments | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Echoes of Willowbrook or Tuskegee? Experimenting with Children | |
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Case Presentation | |
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The Use of Morally Tainted Sources: The Pernkopf Anatomy | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Stopping the Detrozole Trial: A Case of "Ethical Overkill"? | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Baby Fae | |
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Briefing Session | |
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Clinical Trials | |
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The "Informed" Part of Informed Consent | |
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The "Consent" Part of Informed Consent | |
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Vulnerable Populations | |
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Medical Research and Medical Therapy | |
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Investigators and Financial Conflict | |
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Placebos and Research | |
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Therapeutic and Nontherapeutic Research | |
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Offshore Research | |
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Research Involving Children | |
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Research Involving Prisoners | |
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Research Involving the Poor | |
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Research Involving the Terminally III | |
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Research Involving Fetuses | |
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Research Involving Animals | |
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Women and Medical Research | |
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Summary | |
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Ethical Theories: Medical Research and Informed Consent | |
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Utilitarianism | |
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Kant | |
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Ross | |
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Natural Law | |
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Rawls | |
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Decision Scenarios | |
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Controls | |
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Genetic Control | |
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Cases and Contexts | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Genae Girard and Gene Patents | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Huntington's Disease: Deadly Disease, Personal Dilemmas | |
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Social Context | |
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Testing for Disease Predispositions: Is It Better Not to Know? | |
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Social Context | |
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Predictive Genetic Testing: To Test or Not to Test? | |
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Social Context | |
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GINA: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act | |
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Social Context | |
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What Are My Chances? Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Gene Therapy: Slowly Delivering on the Promise | |
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Social Context | |
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The Human Genome Project: Genes, Diseases, and the Personal Genome | |
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Social Context | |
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Stem Cells: The End of the Battle? | |
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Briefing Session | |
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Genetic Intervention: Screening, Counseling, and Diagnosis | |
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Genetic Disease | |
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Genetic Screening | |
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Genetic Counseling | |
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Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis | |
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Ethical Difficulties with Genetic Intervention | |
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Eugenics | |
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Negative and Positive Eugenics | |
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Use of Desirable Germ Cells | |
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Ethical Difficulties with Eugenics | |
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Genetic Research, Therapy, and Technology | |
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Recombinant DNA | |
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Gene Therapy | |
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Biohazards | |
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Ethical Difficulties with Genetic Research, Therapy, and Technology | |
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Decision Scenarios | |
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Reproductive Control | |
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Cases and Contexts | |
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Case Presentation | |
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The Octomom and the McCaughey Septuplets: The Perils of Multiple Pregnancies | |
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Social Context | |
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Shopping the Sperm Supermarket | |
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Social Context | |
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The Price of Eggs-Egg Donors: Rewards, Risks, and Exploitation | |
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Social Context | |
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Advances in Reproductive Cloning | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Louise Brown: The First "Test-Tube Baby" | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Savior Sibling | |
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Case Presentation | |
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The Calvert Case: A Gestational Surrogate Changes Her Mind | |
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Social Context | |
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Postmenopausal Motherhood | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Baby M and Mary Beth Whitehead: Surrogate Pregnancy in Court | |
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Briefing Session | |
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Techniques of Assisted Reproduction | |
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IVF | |
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GIFT, ZIFT, IVC, ULER, PZD, ICSI, DNA Transfer, CD, and IUI | |
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Need and Success Rates | |
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Costs | |
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Drawbacks | |
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Potential Risk to Child | |
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Multiple Births | |
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Embryos, Eggs, and Transplants | |
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Gestational Surrogates and Donor Ova | |
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Criticisms of Assisted-Reproduction Practices | |
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Benefits of IVF and Other Forms of Assisted Reproduction | |
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Ethical and Social Difficulties | |
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Incest Potential | |
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Eugenics | |
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Sex Selection | |
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Weakening of Family | |
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Attitudes of IVF Children | |
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Cloning and Twinning | |
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Artificial Insemination | |
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The Procedure | |
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Reasons for Seeking Artificial Insemination | |
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Sperm Donors | |
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Issues in Artificial Insemination | |
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Ovum Donors | |
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Surrogate Pregnancy | |
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Ethical Theories and Reproductive Control | |
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Decision Scenarios | |
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Terminations | |
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Abortion | |
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Cases and Contexts | |
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Case Presentation | |
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The Conflict Begins: Roe v. Wade | |
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Case presentation | |
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When Abortion Was Illegal: Mrs. Sherri Finkbine and the Thalidomide Tragedy | |
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Social Context | |
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A Statistical Profile of Abortion in the United States | |
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Social Context | |
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The Morning-After Pills (Plan B and Ella): Emergency Contraception and Politics | |
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Social Context | |
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The "Abortion Pill" | |
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Social Context | |
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The "Partial-Birth Abortion" Controversy | |
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Social Context | |
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Supreme Court Abortion Decisions After Roe v. Wade | |
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Briefing Session | |
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Human Development and Abortion | |
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The Status of the Fetus | |
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Pregnancy, Abortion, and the Rights of Women | |
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Therapeutic Abortion | |
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Abortion and the Law | |
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Ethical Theories and Abortion | |
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Decision Scenarios | |
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Treating or Terminating: The Dilemma of Impaired Infants | |
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Cases and Contexts | |
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Case Presentation | |
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The Agony of Bente Hindriks | |
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Social Context | |
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The Dilemma of Extreme Prematurity | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Baby Owens: Down Syndrome and Duodenal Atresia | |
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Social Context | |
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The Baby Doe Cases | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Baby K: An Anencephalic Infant and a Mother's Request | |
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Briefing Session | |
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Genetic and Congenital Impairments | |
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Specific Impairments | |
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Down Syndrome | |
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Spina Bifida | |
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Hydrocephaly | |
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Anencephaly | |
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Esophageal Atresia | |
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Duodenal Atresia | |
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Problems of Extreme Prematurity | |
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Testing for Impairments | |
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Amniocentesis and CVS | |
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Alphafetoprotein | |
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New Noninvasive Tests | |
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Ethical Theories and the Problem of Birth Impairments | |
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Envoi | |
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Decision Scenarios | |
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Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide | |
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Cases and Contexts | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Karen Quinlan: The Debate Begins | |
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Social Context | |
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When the Diagnosis Is Death | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Elizabeth Bouvia's Demand to Starve: A Request for Assisted Suicide? | |
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Case Presentation | |
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The Cruzan Case: The Supreme Court Upholds the Right to Die | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Terri Schiavo | |
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Case Presentation | |
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Jack Kevorkian: Moral Leader or Doctor Death? | |
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Social Context | |
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Assisted Suicide: The Oregon Experience | |
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Case Presentation | |
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The Awakening: A Brief Miracle | |
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Briefing Session | |
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Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
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Voluntary, Involuntary, and Nonvoluntary Euthanasia | |
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Defining "Death" | |
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Advance Directives | |
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Ethical Theories and Euthanasia | |