(* indicates new to 7th edition) Preface The Contributers Introduction: Moral Reasoning in the Medical Context Bioethics: Nature and Scope Sources of Bioethical Problems and Concerns Challenges to Ethical Theory Moral Theories and Perspectives Religious Ethics Rights-Based Approaches Communitarian Ethics Virtue Ethics Nonmoral Considerations Modes of Moral Reasoning PART ONE: Foundations of the Health Professional-Patient Relationship Section 1: Autonomy, Paternalism, and Medical Models The Hippocratic Oath Alan Goldman, The Refutation of Medical Paternalism Beneficience Today, or Autonomy (Maybe) Tomorrow? Bernice S. Elger, Commentary Jean-Claude Chevrolet, Commentary *Terrence F. Ackerman, Why Doctors Should Intervene Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Linda L. Emanuel, Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship Section 2: Informed Consent & Truth Telling John D. Arras, Antihypertensives and the Risk of Temporary Impotence: A Case Study in Informed Consent Jay Katz, Informed Consent - Must it Remain a Fairy Tale? Francoise Baylis, Error in Medicine: Nurturing Truthfulness *Leslie J. Blackhall, Gelya Frank, Sheila Murphy and Vicki Mitchel, Bioethics In a Different Tongue: The Case of Truth-Telling Benjamin Freedman, Offering Truth Section 3: Conflicting Professional Roles and Responsibilities Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California Len Fleck and Marcia Angell, Please Don't Tell Lainie Friedman Ross, Disclosing Misattributed Paternity *Dessmon YH Tai, SARS Plague: Duty to Care or Medical Heroism *Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The Lessons of SARS *Gregory L. Eastwood, Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, Ding-Shinn Chenn and James Dwyer, What Should the Dean Do? *Julie Cantor and Ken Baum, The Limits of Conscientious Objections - May Pharmacists Refuse to Fill Prescriptions for Emergency Contraception *Atul Gawande, When Law and Ethics Collide - Why Physicians Participate in Executions *Ken Baum, 'To Comfort Always: Physician Participation in Executions *Daniel Zupan, Gary Solis, Richard Schoonhoven and George Annas, Dialysis for a Prisoner of War? PART TWO: Allocation, Social Justice, and Health Policy Section 1: Justice, Health, and Health Care President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, An Ethical Framework for Securing Access to Health Care Norman Daniels, Equal Opportunity and Health Care H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Freedom and Moral Diversity: The Moral Failures of Health Care in the Welfare State *Richard Wilkinson and Michael Marmot, eds. for the World Health Organization, The Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts *Ichiro Kawachi, Why the United States Is Not Number One in Health *Norman Daniels, Justice, Health, and Health Care *Gopal Sreenivasan, Opportunity Is Not the Key Section 2: Allocating Scarce Resources Alex John London, Bone Marrow Transplants for Advanced Breast Cancer: The Story of Christine deMeurers *Ronald Dworkin, Justice and the High Cost of Health *Robert Steinbrook, Imposing Personal Responsibility for Health *Alexander W. Cappellen and Ole Frithjof Norheim, Responsibility in Health Care: A Liberal Egalitarian Approach Norman Daniels and James Sabin, Last-Chance Therapies and Managed Care: Pluralism, Fair Procedures, and Legitimacy *James Dwyer, Illegal Immigrants, Health Care, and Social Responsibility *John D. Arras, Rationing Vaccine During an Avian Influenza Pandemic: Why It Won't Be Easy *Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Alan Wertheimer, Who Should Get Flu Vaccine When Not All Can? Section 3: Organ Transplantation: Gifts vs. Markets *Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Abdallah S. Daar, Ronald D. Guttman, Raymond Hoffenberg, Ian Kennedy, Margaret Lock, Robert A. Sells, Nicholas L. Tilney, for the International Forum for Transplant Ethics, The Case for Allowing Kidney Sales *Charles A. Erin and John Harris, An Ethical Market in Human Organs *Donald Joralemon and Phil Cox, Body Values: The Case Against Compensating for Transplant Organs Section 4: Poverty, Health, and Justice Beyond National Borders *Thomas A. Pogge, Responsibilities for Poverty-Related Ill Health *Mathias Risse, Do We Owe the Global Poor Assistance or Rectification? PART THREE: Defining Death, Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Euthanasia Section 1: The Definition of Death President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, Defining Death *James L. Bernat, The Whole-Brain Concept of Death Remains Optimum Public Policy *Jeff McMahan, An Alternative to Brain Death Section 2: Decisional Capacity and the Right to Refuse Treatment State of Tennessee Department of Human Services v. Mary C. Northern: Transcript of Proceedings, Testimony of Mary C. Northern Allen Buchanan and Dan W. Brock, Deciding for Others: Competency Keith Burton, A Chronicle: Dax's Case as it Happened Robert B. White, Commentary H. Tristram Engelhardt, Commentary Section 3: Advance Directives George J. Annas, The Health Care Proxy and the Living Will *Angela Fagerlin and Carl E. Schneider, Enough: The Failure of the Living Will Norman L. Cantor, Testing the Limits of Precedent Autonomy: Five Scenarios Section 4: Choosing for the Once-Competent *Jay Wolfson, Erring on the Side of Theresa Schiavo: Reflections of the Special Guardian Ad Litem *Wesley J. Smith, 'Human Non-Person'Terri Schiavo, Bioethics, and Our Future In the Matter of Claire C. Conroy John D. Arras, The Severely Demented, Minimally Functional Patient: An Ethical Analysis U.S. Bishops Pro-Life Committee, Nutrition and Hydration: Moral and Pastoral Reflections Rebecca S. Dresser and John A. Robertson, Quality of Life and Non-Treatment Decisions for Incompetent Patients: A Critique of the Orthodox Approach Nancy K. Rhoden, The Limits of Legal Objectivity *Section 5: Choosing for the Never-Competent *Alicia Ouellette, Termination of Life-Support for a Never-Competent Patient: the Sheila Pouliot Case *John Robertson, Extreme Prematurity and Parental Rights After Baby Doe *John Paris, Michael D. Schreiber and Alun Elias-Jones, Resuscitation of the Preterm Infant Against Parental Wishes Section 6: Physician-Assisted Death Timothy E. Quill, Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making John D. Arras, Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Tragic View Assisted Suicide: an Amicus Curiae Brief Ronald Dworkin, Introduction Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Philosophers' Brief Margaret Battin, Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, The Way They Do It (updates for the new edition) John Hardwig, Is There A Duty to Die? Felicia Nimue Ackerman, 'For Now Have I My Death':the 'Duty to Die' versus the Duty to Help the Ill Stay Alive PART FOUR: Reproduction Section 1: The Morality of Abortion Pope John Paul II, The Unspeakable Crime of Abortion Don Marquis, Why Abortion is Immoral Bonnie Steinbock, Why Most Abortions Are Not Wrong Judith Jarvis Thomson, A Defense of Abortion Margaret Olivia Little, The Morality of Abortion Section 2: Obligations to the Not-Yet-Born *Howard Minkoff and Lynn M. Paltrow, The Rights of 'Unborn Children' and the Value of Pregnant Women Allen Buchanan, Dam Brock, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wikler, Reproductive Freedom and the Prevention of Genetically Transmitted Harmful Conditions *Richard J. Hull, Cheap Listening? - Reflections on the Concept of Wrongful Disability Section 3: Assisted Reproduction John A. Robertson, The Presumptive Primacy of Procreative Liberty Vatican, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation *Thomas H. Murray, What are Families for? Getting to an Ethics of Reproductive Technology *Jessica Cohen, Grade A: The Market for a Yale Woman's Eggs *Bonnie Steinbock, Payment for Egg Donation Section 4: Reproductive Cloning *The President's Council on Bioethics, The Case Against Cloning-to-Produce-Children *Bonnie Steinbock, Reproductive Cloning: Another Look Thomas H. Murray, Even If It Worked, Cloning Wouldn't Bring Her Back PART FIVE: Genetics Section 1: Prenatal Genetic Testing Adrienne Asch, Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion: A Challenge to Practice and Policy *Bonnie Steinbock, Disability, Prenatal Testing and Selective Abortion Jeffrey R. Botkin, Ethical Issues and Practical Problems in Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis Bonnie Steinbock, Case Study on Molly and Adam Nash Section 2: Therapeutic Cloning and Stem Cell Research *Michael Sandel, Embryo Ethics - The Moral Logic of Stem-Cell Research *Robert George and Patrick Lee, Acorns and Embryos *William FitzPatrick, Surplus Embryos, Nonreproductive Cloning, and the Intend/Foresee Distinction PART SIX: Experimentation on Human Subjects Section 1: Born in Scandal: The Origins of US Research Ethics The Nuremburg Code John D. Arras, The Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital Case David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman, The Willowbrook Hepatitis Studies Allan M. Brandt, Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, The Belmont Report Sec tion 2: The Ethics of Randomized Clinical Trials Maurie Markman, Ethical Difficulties with Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Cancer Patients: Examples from the Field of Gynecologic Oncology Samuel Hellman and Deborah S. Hellman, Of Mice but Not Men: Problems of the Randomized Clinical Trial Benjamin Freedman, A Response to a Purported Ethical Difficulty with Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Cancer Patients Section 3: Ethical Issues in International Research Peter Lurie and Sidney M. Wolfe, Unethical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Developing Countries Robert A. Crouch and John D. Arras, AZT Trials and Tribulations Alex John London, The Ambiguity and the Exigency: Clarifying 'Standard of Care' Arguments in International Research Leonard H. Glanz, George J. Annas, Michael A Grodin, and Wendy K. Mariner, Reasearch in Developing Countries: Taking 'Benefit' Seriously *Participants in the 2001 Conference on Ethical Aspects of Research in Developing Countries, Fair Benefits for Research in Developing Countries Section 4: Research on Children Alex John London, Children and 'Minimal Risk' Research: The Kennedy-Krieger Lead Paint Study Thomas H. Murray, Research on Children and the Scope of Responsible Parenthood Benjamin Freedman, Abraham Fuks, and Charles Weijer, In Loco Parentis: Minimal Risk as an Ethical Threshold for Research upon Children PART SEVEN: Emerging Technologies and Perennial Issues Section 1: Emerging Technologies *Steven Pinker, Designer Baby Myth *Mark A. Rothstein, Applications of Behavioral Genetics: Outpacing the Science *Walter Glannon, Neuroethics Section 2: Enhancement *David B. Allen, Growth Hormone Therapy for the Disability of Short Stature Norman Daniels, The Genome Project, Individual Differences, and Just Health Care *Julian Savulescu, Genetic Interventions and the Ethics of Enhancement of Human Beings *Michael Sandel, The Case Against Perfection: What's Wrong with Designer Children, Bionic Athletes, and Genetic Engineering *Ronald Bailey, Anyone for Tennis, at the Age of 150?? Section 3: Free Will and Responsibility *Walter Glannon, Neurobiology, Neuroimaging, and Free Will Appendix: Resources in Bioethics