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Foreword | |
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"The Structure of an Ethical Revolution: Paul Ramsey, The Beecher Lectures, and the Birth of Bioethics" | |
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"The Patient as Person: Beyond Ramsey's Beecher Lectures" | |
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Preface | |
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Consent as a Canon of Loyalty with Special Reference to Children in Medical Investigations | |
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Ethics in the Consent Situation | |
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The Ethics of Consent | |
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Research Involving Children or Incompetents | |
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The Guidelines | |
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Pro and Con | |
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Children in Institutions | |
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On Updating Procedures for Stating That a Man Has Died | |
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The Challenge to Old-Fashioned Death | |
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What Death Is and Telling That Death Has Occurred | |
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Updating Death | |
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The Harvard Report | |
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On Not Confusing Death with Stopping Extraordinary Means | |
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On Not Confusing Death with "Organ Donor Eligibility" | |
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On (Only) Caring for the Dying | |
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The Problem | |
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Ordinary and Extraordinary Means | |
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The Morality of (Only) Caring for the Dying | |
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The Process of Dying | |
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Caring for the Seriously Ill and the Irreversibly Ill | |
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The Same Objection from Two Opposite Extremes | |
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Two Possible Qualifications of Our Duty Always to Care for the Dying | |
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The Self-Giving of Vital Organs: A Case Study in Comparative Ethics | |
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Am I My Twin Brother's Keeper? | |
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The State of the Question in Roman Catholic Morals | |
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Transimplantation as a Single, Uninterrupted Action | |
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The State of the Question in a Possible Protestant Position | |
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A Meditation on Medicine's Ministry to the Flesh | |
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Giving or Taking Cadaver Organs for Transplants | |
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A Caveat on Heart Transplants | |
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In the Prism of a Far Away Case | |
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Heart Transplants as Investigational Trials | |
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Heart Transplants as Treatment, Elective Only | |
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Choosing How to Choose: Patients and Sparse Medical Resources | |
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Let the Better Man Live | |
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A Human Lottery? | |
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All Should Die When Not all Can Be Saved | |
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How Shall Sparse Medical Resources Be Distributed Justly? | |
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Index | |