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| Rights | |
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| Physicians, Patients, and Others: Autonomy, Truth Telling, and Confidentiality | |
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| Cases and Contexts | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Donald (Dax) Cowart Rejects Treatment-and Is Ignored | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Autism and Vaccination | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Suffer the Little Children? | |
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| Social Context | |
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| The HPV Vaccine: Hope or Hype? | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Placebos and Transparency | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Health Cops: How Much Regulation Is Too Much? | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Medical Tourism | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Healing the Hmong | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| The Vegan Baby | |
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| Briefing Session | |
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| Autonomy | |
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| Paternalism | |
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| State Paternalism in Medical and Health Care | |
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| Personal Paternalism in Medical and Health Care | |
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| Informed Consent and Medical Treatment | |
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| Free and Informed Consent | |
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| Parents and Children | |
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| Pregnancy and Autonomy | |
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| Truth Telling in Medicine | |
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| Placebos | |
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| Dignity and Consent | |
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| Confidentiality (Privacy) | |
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| Breaching Confidentiality | |
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| Duty to Warn? | |
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| Managed Care | |
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| HIPA Regulations | |
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| Ethical Theories: Autonomy, Truth Telling, Confidentiality | |
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| Decision Scenarios | |
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| Research Ethics and Informed Consent | |
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| Cases and Contexts | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Face Transplants: The Dream of Looking Ordinary | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Abigail Alliance v. FDA: Do Terminally III People Have a Right to Take Experimental Drugs? | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Prisoners as Test Subjects? | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Jesse Gelsinger: The First Gene-Therapy Death | |
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| Social Context | |
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| The Cold-War Radiation Experiments | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| The Willowbrook Hepatitis Experiments | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Echoes of Willowbrook or Tuskegee? Experimenting with Children | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| The Use of Morally Tainted Sources: The Pernkopf Anatomy | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Stopping the Detrozole Trial: A Case of "Ethical Overkill"? | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Baby Fae | |
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| Briefing Session | |
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| Clinical Trials | |
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| The "Informed" Part of Informed Consent | |
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| The "Consent" Part of Informed Consent | |
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| Vulnerable Populations | |
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| Medical Research and Medical Therapy | |
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| Investigators and Financial Conflict | |
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| Placebos and Research | |
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| Therapeutic and Nontherapeutic Research | |
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| Offshore Research | |
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| Research Involving Children | |
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| Research Involving Prisoners | |
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| Research Involving the Poor | |
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| Research Involving the Terminally III | |
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| Research Involving Fetuses | |
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| Research Involving Animals | |
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| Women and Medical Research | |
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| Summary | |
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| Ethical Theories: Medical Research and Informed Consent | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| Kant | |
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| Ross | |
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| Natural Law | |
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| Rawls | |
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| Decision Scenarios | |
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| Controls | |
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| Genetic Control | |
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| Cases and Contexts | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Genae Girard and Gene Patents | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Huntington's Disease: Deadly Disease, Personal Dilemmas | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Testing for Disease Predispositions: Is It Better Not to Know? | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Predictive Genetic Testing: To Test or Not to Test? | |
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| Social Context | |
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| GINA: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act | |
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| Social Context | |
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| What Are My Chances? Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Gene Therapy: Slowly Delivering on the Promise | |
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| Social Context | |
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| The Human Genome Project: Genes, Diseases, and the Personal Genome | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Stem Cells: The End of the Battle? | |
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| Briefing Session | |
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| Genetic Intervention: Screening, Counseling, and Diagnosis | |
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| Genetic Disease | |
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| Genetic Screening | |
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| Genetic Counseling | |
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| Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis | |
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| Ethical Difficulties with Genetic Intervention | |
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| Eugenics | |
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| Negative and Positive Eugenics | |
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| Use of Desirable Germ Cells | |
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| Ethical Difficulties with Eugenics | |
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| Genetic Research, Therapy, and Technology | |
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| Recombinant DNA | |
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| Gene Therapy | |
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| Biohazards | |
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| Ethical Difficulties with Genetic Research, Therapy, and Technology | |
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| Decision Scenarios | |
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| Reproductive Control | |
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| Cases and Contexts | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| The Octomom and the McCaughey Septuplets: The Perils of Multiple Pregnancies | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Shopping the Sperm Supermarket | |
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| Social Context | |
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| The Price of Eggs-Egg Donors: Rewards, Risks, and Exploitation | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Advances in Reproductive Cloning | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Louise Brown: The First "Test-Tube Baby" | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Savior Sibling | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| The Calvert Case: A Gestational Surrogate Changes Her Mind | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Postmenopausal Motherhood | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Baby M and Mary Beth Whitehead: Surrogate Pregnancy in Court | |
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| Briefing Session | |
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| Techniques of Assisted Reproduction | |
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| IVF | |
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| GIFT, ZIFT, IVC, ULER, PZD, ICSI, DNA Transfer, CD, and IUI | |
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| Need and Success Rates | |
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| Costs | |
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| Drawbacks | |
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| Potential Risk to Child | |
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| Multiple Births | |
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| Embryos, Eggs, and Transplants | |
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| Gestational Surrogates and Donor Ova | |
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| Criticisms of Assisted-Reproduction Practices | |
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| Benefits of IVF and Other Forms of Assisted Reproduction | |
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| Ethical and Social Difficulties | |
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| Incest Potential | |
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| Eugenics | |
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| Sex Selection | |
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| Weakening of Family | |
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| Attitudes of IVF Children | |
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| Cloning and Twinning | |
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| Artificial Insemination | |
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| The Procedure | |
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| Reasons for Seeking Artificial Insemination | |
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| Sperm Donors | |
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| Issues in Artificial Insemination | |
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| Ovum Donors | |
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| Surrogate Pregnancy | |
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| Ethical Theories and Reproductive Control | |
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| Decision Scenarios | |
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| Terminations | |
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| Abortion | |
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| Cases and Contexts | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| The Conflict Begins: Roe v. Wade | |
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| Case presentation | |
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| When Abortion Was Illegal: Mrs. Sherri Finkbine and the Thalidomide Tragedy | |
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| Social Context | |
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| A Statistical Profile of Abortion in the United States | |
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| Social Context | |
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| The Morning-After Pills (Plan B and Ella): Emergency Contraception and Politics | |
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| Social Context | |
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| The "Abortion Pill" | |
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| Social Context | |
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| The "Partial-Birth Abortion" Controversy | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Supreme Court Abortion Decisions After Roe v. Wade | |
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| Briefing Session | |
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| Human Development and Abortion | |
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| The Status of the Fetus | |
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| Pregnancy, Abortion, and the Rights of Women | |
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| Therapeutic Abortion | |
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| Abortion and the Law | |
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| Ethical Theories and Abortion | |
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| Decision Scenarios | |
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| Treating or Terminating: The Dilemma of Impaired Infants | |
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| Cases and Contexts | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| The Agony of Bente Hindriks | |
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| Social Context | |
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| The Dilemma of Extreme Prematurity | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Baby Owens: Down Syndrome and Duodenal Atresia | |
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| Social Context | |
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| The Baby Doe Cases | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Baby K: An Anencephalic Infant and a Mother's Request | |
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| Briefing Session | |
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| Genetic and Congenital Impairments | |
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| Specific Impairments | |
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| Down Syndrome | |
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| Spina Bifida | |
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| Hydrocephaly | |
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| Anencephaly | |
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| Esophageal Atresia | |
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| Duodenal Atresia | |
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| Problems of Extreme Prematurity | |
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| Testing for Impairments | |
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| Amniocentesis and CVS | |
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| Alphafetoprotein | |
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| New Noninvasive Tests | |
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| Ethical Theories and the Problem of Birth Impairments | |
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| Envoi | |
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| Decision Scenarios | |
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| Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide | |
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| Cases and Contexts | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Karen Quinlan: The Debate Begins | |
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| Social Context | |
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| When the Diagnosis Is Death | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Elizabeth Bouvia's Demand to Starve: A Request for Assisted Suicide? | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| The Cruzan Case: The Supreme Court Upholds the Right to Die | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Terri Schiavo | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| Jack Kevorkian: Moral Leader or Doctor Death? | |
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| Social Context | |
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| Assisted Suicide: The Oregon Experience | |
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| Case Presentation | |
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| The Awakening: A Brief Miracle | |
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| Briefing Session | |
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| Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
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| Voluntary, Involuntary, and Nonvoluntary Euthanasia | |
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| Defining "Death" | |
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| Advance Directives | |
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| Ethical Theories and Euthanasia | |