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List of Contributors | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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What Is Bioethics? A Historical Introduction | |
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Questions About Bioethics | |
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Ethical Theory and Bioethics | |
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Culture and Bioethics | |
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Gender and Bioethics | |
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Religion and Bioethics | |
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Law and Bioethics | |
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Ethical Approaches | |
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A Principle-based Approach | |
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Exceptionless Rule Approaches | |
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A Utilitarian Approach | |
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A Virtue Ethics Approach | |
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A Care Approach | |
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A Case Approach | |
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Before Birth: Issues Involving Embryos and Fetuses | |
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Personhood | |
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Abortion | |
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Mother�Fetus Conflict | |
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Issues In Reproduction | |
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Population | |
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Assisted Reproduction, Prenatal Testing, and Sex Selection | |
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Cloning | |
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The New Genetics | |
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Gene Therapy | |
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Genetic Enhancement | |
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Creating and Patenting New Life Forms | |
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Genetic Counseling, Testing, and Screening | |
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Life and Death Issues | |
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Medical Decisions at the End of Life | |
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Severely Disabled Newborns | |
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Death, Brain Death, and Persistent Vegetative State | |
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Advance Directives | |
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Voluntary Euthanasia, Suicide, and Physician-assisted Suicide | |
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The Slippery Slope Argument | |
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Resource Allocation | |
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Deciding Between Patients | |
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Society's Allocation of Resources for Health | |
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Is There a Right to Health Care and, If So, What Does It Encompass? | |
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Organ Donations | |
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A World of Transferable Parts | |
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Global Health-care Issues | |
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Global Health Responsibilities | |
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Developing World Challenges | |
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Global Pharmaceutical Markets | |
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Infectious Disease | |
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AIDS as a Global Health Emergency | |
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Experimentation With Humans and Animals | |
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Research Involving Human Beings | |
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Regulating Experimentation in Research and Medical Practice | |
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Research Using Preimplantation Human Embryos | |
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The Moral Status of Animals and Their Use As Experimental Subjects | |
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Ethical Issues in the Practice of Health Care | |
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Confidentiality | |
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Truth-telling | |
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Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy | |
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Patients Doubtfully Capable or Incapable of Consent | |
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Ethics in Nursing Practice | |
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Global Trends in Nursing Ethics | |
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The Teaching and Practice of Bioethics | |
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Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultants | |
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Teaching Ethics in the Health Professions | |
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