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| Introduction | |
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| Principles and Core Values | |
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| What Is Health Care Ethics? | |
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| Other Ethical Systems | |
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| Medical Ethics Needs Accurate Distinctions | |
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| The Values Inherent in Medical Care | |
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| Medical Ethics: Basic Goals | |
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| Medicine: Not an Exact Science | |
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| Professionalism: The Essence Is Empathy | |
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| Professional Attitudes--The Ethical Physician | |
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| Human Rights and Health Care | |
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| Culture and Religion | |
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| "No Greater Love" | |
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| Informed Consent: Personal and Proxy | |
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| Informed Consent | |
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| Proxy Consent: Deciding for Others | |
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| Informed Consent and the Purpose of Medicine | |
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| Standards for Surrogates | |
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| Informed Consent: Therapeutic and Nontherapeutic Procedures | |
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| Informed Consent: Neonatal Care | |
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| When Children Can Consent | |
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| Telling the Truth to Patients | |
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| Confidentiality | |
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| Confidentiality in the Computer Age | |
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| CPR and DNR Revisited | |
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| Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney | |
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| The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) | |
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| Advance Directives Revisited | |
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| Use and Removal of Life Support | |
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| Ordinary and Extraordinary Means | |
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| Ethical Criteria for Removing Life Support | |
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| Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support | |
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| Assessing Treatment Options | |
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| Discontinuing Life Support in Doubt | |
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| Religious Beliefs and Lifesaving Therapy | |
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| Care for Patients in Persistent Vegetative States | |
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| Unfinished Business in the Cruzan Case | |
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| "Only God Can Heal My Daughter" | |
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| It's Time to Resolve the "Futility Debate" | |
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| Court Decisions on Futile Therapy | |
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| The Wanglie Case: Demands for Futile Therapy | |
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| Baby K: It's Time to Take a Stand | |
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| Genetics | |
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| Cloning (Artifical Twinning): Have We Gone Too Far? | |
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| Genetic Testing: Ethics Issues | |
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| Concerns about Genetic Testing: Is a Little Knowledge Dangerous? | |
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| Cloning Human Beings | |
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| Organ Donation | |
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| Organ Donation: Priceless Gift or Market Commodity? | |
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| Baby Theresa: "The Good That Could Be Done" | |
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| The Baby Fae Legacy | |
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| Destroying One Life to Save Others | |
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| Obtaining Organs from Non-Heart-Beating Cadavers | |
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| Mandated Choice for Organ Donation | |
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| Research | |
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| Human Research Using Animals | |
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| Use of Fetal Tissue in Research and Therapy | |
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| Embryo Research: Ethical Issues | |
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| Research in the Emergency Department | |
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| Suicide and Physician-Assisted Suicide | |
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| Suicide: A Rational Choice? | |
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| The Myth of "Managed Death" | |
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| Kevorkian's Dilemma: Are We Owners or Stewards of Human Life? | |
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| Physician-Assisted Suicide: An Ethical Analysis of Presuppositions | |
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| Suffering and the Debate over Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia | |
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| Federal Courts Approve Physician-Assisted Suicide | |
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| The U.S. Supreme Court and Assisted Suicide | |
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| Social Aspects of Assisted Suicide | |
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| Can Liberty Sustain Itself? Reflections on Physician-Assisted Suicide | |
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| Managed Care | |
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| Ethical Issues and Managed Care: Asking the Right Questions | |
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| Harry and Louise: What Happened? | |
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| Managed Care and Early Discharge of Newborn Infants | |
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| Treating Symptoms or Basic Causes | |
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| Handling the 800-Pound Gorilla | |
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| The Oregon Health Care Plan: Some Questions | |
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| Artificial Generation | |
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| In Vitro Fertilization and Surrogate Motherhood | |
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| Conceiving One Child to Save Another | |
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| Special Questions | |
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| On Playing God | |
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| Autopsy: Ethical and Religious Considerations | |
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| Pain: Some Ethical Considerations | |
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| Suffering and the Need for Compassion | |
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| Truth-Telling and Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Ethics Committees in Hospitals | |
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| The Role of Ethics Committees | |
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| "There But for the Grace of God": Disclosing Imperfect Care | |
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| Treatment of Rape Victims | |
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| Separating the Lakeberg Twins: Ethical Issues | |
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| The McCaughey Septuplets: All's Well that Ends Well? | |
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| Early Delivery of Anencephalic Infants: Ethical Opinions | |
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| About the Center for Health Care Ethics | |
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| Index | |