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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Before Birth | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Abortion | |
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| Abortion and Health Care Ethics | |
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| Abortion and Infanticide | |
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| A Defense of Abortion | |
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| Why Abortion is Immoral | |
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| Mother-Fetus Conflict | |
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| Are Pregnant Women Fetal Containers? | |
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| Issues in Reproduction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Assisted Reproduction | |
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| The McCaughey Septuplets: God's Will or Human Choice? | |
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| Surrogate Mothering: Exploitation or Empowerment? | |
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| A Response to Purdy | |
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| The Right to Lesbian Parenthood | |
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| Rights, Interests, and Possible People | |
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| Prenatal Screening, Sex Selection, and Cloning | |
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| Genetics and Reproductive Risk: Can Having Children be Immoral? | |
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| Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion: A Challenge to Practice and Policy | |
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| Genetic Technology: A Threat to Deafness | |
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| Sex Selection: The Case For | |
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| Conception to Obtain Hematopoietic Stem Cells | |
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| Why We Should Not Permit Embryos to be Selected as Tissue Donors | |
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| The Moral Status of the Cloning of Humans | |
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| The New Genetics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Gene Therapy and Eugenics | |
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| Questions About Some Uses of Genetic Engineering | |
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| Ethical Issues in Manipulating the Human Germ Line | |
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| The Moral Significance of the Therapy-Enhancement Distinction in Human Genetics | |
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| Should We Undertake Genetic Research on Intelligence? | |
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| Genetic Screening and Counseling | |
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| Lessons from a Dark and Distant Past | |
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| Patient Autonomy and Value-Neutrality in Nondirective Genetic Counseling | |
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| Genetic Dilemmas and the Child's Right to an Open Future | |
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| Life and Death Issues | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Sanctity of Life | |
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| Declaration on Euthanasia | |
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| Killing and Letting Die | |
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| The Morality of Killing: A Traditional View | |
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| Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
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| Is Killing No Worse Than Letting Die? | |
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| Why Killing is Not Always Worse - and Sometimes Better - Than Letting Die | |
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| Severely Disabled Newborns | |
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| When Care Cannot Cure: Medical Problems in Seriously Ill Babies | |
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| A Modern Myth: That Letting Die is Not the Intentional Causation of Death | |
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| The Abnormal Child: Moral Dilemmas of Doctors and Parents | |
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| Right to Life of Handicapped | |
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| Brain Death | |
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| A Definition of Irreversible Coma | |
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| Is the Sanctity of Life Ethic Terminally Ill? | |
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| Advance Directives | |
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| Life Past Reason | |
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| Dworkin on Dementia: Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy | |
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| Voluntary Euthanasia and Medically Assisted Suicide | |
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| The Note | |
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| When Self-Determination Runs Amok | |
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| When Abstract Moralizing Runs Amok | |
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| Listening and Helping to Die: The Dutch Way | |
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| Resource Allocation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Micro-Allocation: Deciding Between Patients | |
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| Rescuing Lives: Can't We Count? | |
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| The Allocation of Exotic Medical Lifesaving Therapy | |
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| Should Alcoholics Compete Equally for Liver Transplantation? | |
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| The Value of Life | |
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| How Age Should Matter: Justice as the Basis for Limiting Care to the Elderly | |
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| Macro-Allocation: Dividing Up the Healthcare Budget | |
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| Quality of Life and Resource Allocation | |
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| A Lifespan Approach to Health Care | |
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| Organ Donation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why Give to Strangers? | |
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| Organ Donation and Retrieval: Whose Body is it Anyway? | |
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| The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales | |
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| The Survival Lottery | |
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| Experimentation with Human Subjects | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Human Subjects | |
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| Ethics and Clinical Research | |
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| Equipoise and the Ethics of Clinical Research | |
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| The Patient and the Public Good | |
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| The Morality of Clinical Research: A Case Study | |
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| Unethical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Developing Countries | |
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| We're Trying to Help Our Sickest People, Not Exploit Them | |
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| Human Embryos - Stem Cells | |
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| Question of Respect for Life: What Some [Australian] Members of Parliament Have Said About Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Parliament This Week | |
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| Stem Cells, Sex, and Procreation | |
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| Experimentation with Animals | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Duties Towards Animals | |
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| A Utilitarian View | |
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| All Animals are Equal | |
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| Vivisection, Morals and Medicine: An Exchange | |
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| Ethical Issues in the Practice of Healthcare | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Confidentiality | |
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| Confidentiality in Medicine: A Decrepit Concept | |
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| Truth-Telling | |
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| On a Supposed Right to Lie from Altruistic Motives | |
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| Should Doctors Tell the Truth? | |
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| On Telling Patients the Truth | |
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| Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy | |
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| On Liberty | |
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| From Schloendorff v. New York Hospital | |
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| Amputees by Choice | |
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| Abandoning Informed Consent | |
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| Rational Desires and the Limitation of Life-Sustaining Treatment | |
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| The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Different Cultures | |
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| Special Issues Facing Nurses | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ethical Dilemmas for Nurses: Physicians' Orders Versus Patients' Rights | |
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| In Defense of the Traditional Nurse | |
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| Ethicists and Ethics Committees | |
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| Introduction | |
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| When Philosophers Shoot from the Hip | |
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| Ethics Consultation as Moral Engagement | |
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| Truth or Consequences: The Role of Philosophers in Policy-Making | |
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| Should the Decisions of Ethics Committees be Based on Community Values? | |
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| Index | |