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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