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| List of Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Bioethics? A Historical Introduction | |
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| Questions About Bioethics | |
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| Ethical Theory and Bioethics | |
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| Culture and Bioethics | |
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| Gender and Bioethics | |
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| Religion and Bioethics | |
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| Law and Bioethics | |
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| Ethical Approaches | |
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| A Principle-based Approach | |
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| Exceptionless Rule Approaches | |
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| A Utilitarian Approach | |
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| A Virtue Ethics Approach | |
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| A Care Approach | |
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| A Case Approach | |
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| Before Birth: Issues Involving Embryos and Fetuses | |
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| Personhood | |
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| Abortion | |
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| Mother�Fetus Conflict | |
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| Issues In Reproduction | |
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| Population | |
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| Assisted Reproduction, Prenatal Testing, and Sex Selection | |
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| Cloning | |
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| The New Genetics | |
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| Gene Therapy | |
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| Genetic Enhancement | |
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| Creating and Patenting New Life Forms | |
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| Genetic Counseling, Testing, and Screening | |
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| Life and Death Issues | |
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| Medical Decisions at the End of Life | |
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| Severely Disabled Newborns | |
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| Death, Brain Death, and Persistent Vegetative State | |
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| Advance Directives | |
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| Voluntary Euthanasia, Suicide, and Physician-assisted Suicide | |
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| The Slippery Slope Argument | |
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| Resource Allocation | |
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| Deciding Between Patients | |
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| Society's Allocation of Resources for Health | |
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| Is There a Right to Health Care and, If So, What Does It Encompass? | |
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| Organ Donations | |
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| A World of Transferable Parts | |
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| Global Health-care Issues | |
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| Global Health Responsibilities | |
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| Developing World Challenges | |
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| Global Pharmaceutical Markets | |
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| Infectious Disease | |
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| AIDS as a Global Health Emergency | |
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| Experimentation With Humans and Animals | |
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| Research Involving Human Beings | |
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| Regulating Experimentation in Research and Medical Practice | |
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| Research Using Preimplantation Human Embryos | |
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| The Moral Status of Animals and Their Use As Experimental Subjects | |
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| Ethical Issues in the Practice of Health Care | |
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| Confidentiality | |
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| Truth-telling | |
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| Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy | |
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| Patients Doubtfully Capable or Incapable of Consent | |
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| Ethics in Nursing Practice | |
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| Global Trends in Nursing Ethics | |
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| The Teaching and Practice of Bioethics | |
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| Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultants | |
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| Teaching Ethics in the Health Professions | |
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