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| Preface | |
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| Health Care Professionals' Responsibilities and Patients' Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Professional Conduct | |
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| When the Doctor and Minister Disagree | |
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| The Nurse's Appeal to Conscience | |
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| The Usual Suspects | |
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| Culture, Healing, and Professional Obligation | |
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| When the Doctor is on Drugs | |
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| Informed Consent | |
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| Proxy Consent for a Medical Gamble | |
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| Faith Healing for Childhood Leukemia | |
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| Who Speaks for the Patient with the Locked-In Syndrome? | |
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| "Make Me Live": Autonomy and Terminal Illness | |
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| Privacy and Confidentiality | |
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| AIDS and a Duty to Protect | |
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| A Duty to Warn, An Uncertain Danger | |
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| The Price of Silence | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Reproductive Rights and Technologies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reproductive Rights | |
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| Cancer and Maybe a Baby | |
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| When a Pregnant Woman Endangers Her Fetus | |
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| Live Sperm, Dead Bodies | |
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| Maternal Rights, Fetal Harms | |
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| Abortion | |
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| When a Mentally Ill Woman Refuses Abortion | |
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| Selective Termination of Pregnancy | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Death and Dying | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Decisions About Death | |
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| For Love or Money | |
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| Does "Doing Everything" Include CPR? | |
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| Surgical Risks and Advance Directives | |
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| Nurturing a Defective Newborn | |
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| The Second-Hand Suicide Threat | |
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| Refusal of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Euthanasia | |
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| A Demand to Die | |
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| Family Wishes and Patient Autonomy | |
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| "If I Have AIDS, Then Let Me Die Now!" | |
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| Whether "No" Means "No" | |
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| "No Feeding Tubes for Me!" | |
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| When the Doctor Gives a Deadly Dose | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Research with Living Subjects | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Consent to Research | |
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| Hope and the Limits of Research | |
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| For the Benefit of All | |
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| Informed Consent in the Developing World | |
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| Selection of Subjects and Protection of Their Welfare | |
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| Can a Research Subject be Too Eager to Consent? | |
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| Can a Healthy Subject Volunteer to be Injured in Research? | |
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| Nazi Data: Dissociation from Evil | |
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| The Heart of the Matter | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Decision Making Capacity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Involuntary Treatment | |
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| The Tracheostomy Tube | |
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| "Ain't Nobody Gonna Cut on My Head!" | |
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| The Woman Who Died in a Box | |
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| Preterm Labor and Prenatal Harm | |
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| Decisions on Behalf of the Incompetent | |
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| Word of Mouth | |
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| Sterilizing the Retarded Child | |
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| Should Competence be Coerced? | |
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| The Forgetful Mourner | |
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| Allocation and Health Care Policy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Allocation of Scarce Resources | |
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| How Best Shall We Serve? | |
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| Forced Transfer to Custodial Care | |
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| The Last Bed in the ICU | |
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| Two Cardiac Arrests, One Medical Team | |
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| The Doctor, The Patient, and The DRG | |
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| The HMO Physician's Duty to Cut Costs | |
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| The Noncompliant Substance Abuser | |
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| Organ Procurement and Transplantation | |
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| In Organ Transplants, Americans First? | |
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| The Anencephalic Newborn as Organ Donor | |
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| Can the Fetus be an Organ Farm? | |
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| Health Care Policy | |
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| But Is He Genetically Diseased? | |
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| My Conscience, Your Money | |
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| Who Pays for AZT? | |
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| When is Home Care Medically Necessary | |
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| Palliation in the Age of Chronic Disease | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |