Bioethics Book

	Preface
Pt. I	The History of Bioethics
	Introduction to the History of Bioethics	3
	The New Biology: What Price Relieving Man's Estate?	12
	The Heart Transplant: Ethical Dimensions	15
	Who Shall Live When Not All Can Live?	19
	Ethics and Clinical Research	29
	Philosophical Reflections on Experimenting with Human Subjects	42
	Realities of Patient Consent to Medical Research	51
	Moral and Ethical Dilemmas in the Special-Care Nursery	60
	To Save or Let Die: The Dilemma of Modern Medicine	70
	Active and Passive Euthanasia	77
	Prolonged Dying: Not Medically Indicated	83
	Bioethics as a Discipline	87
	Medical Ethics: Some Uses, Abuses, and Limitations	93
	How Medicine Saved the Life of Ethics	101
Pt. II	The Methods of Bioethics
	Introduction to the Methods of Bioethics	113
	Equality and Its Implications	126
	Kantian Ethics	131
	From Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Selection)	141
	A Critique of Principlism	147
	Feminism and Moral Theory	152
	Casuistry and Clinical Ethics	158
	From Doctors' Stories (Selection)	162
	Getting Down to Cases: The Revival of Casuistry in Bioethics	175
	Feminist and Medical Ethics: Two Different Approaches to Contextual Ethics	184
	Attitudes toward Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia among Physicians in Washington State	190
	Survival after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Hospital	202
	Limitation of Medical Care: An Ethnographic Analysis	218
	Should Medical Encounters Be Studied Using Ethnographic Techniques?	232
	Medical Morality Is Not Bioethics: Medical Ethics in China and the United States	237
	Yes, There Are African-American Perspectives on Bioethics	252
Pt. III	The Practice of Bioethics
	Introduction to the Practice of Bioethics	259
	Hospital Ethics Committees: Is There a Role?	273
	The Inner Workings of an Ethics Committee: Latest Battle over Jehovah's Witnesses	279
	Ethics Consultation: Skills, Roles, and Training	283
	Facilitating Medical Ethics Case Review: What Ethics Committees Can Learn from Mediation and Facilitation Techniques	293
	Behind Closed Doors: Promises and Pitfalls of Ethics Committees	300
	Part 1340 - Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and Treatment (Selection)	309
	The Patient Self-Determination Act and the Future of Advance Directives	324
	Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment (Selection)	331
	Natural Death Act	345
	When Others Must Choose (Selection)	347
	Ethical Issues Involved in the Growing AIDS Crisis	357
	Position of the American Academy of Neurology on Certain Aspects of the Care and Management of the Persistent Vegetative State Patient	361
	Initiating and Withdrawing Life Support: Principles and Practice in Adult Medicine	365
	Ethics Committees and Decisions to Limit Care: The Experience at the Massachusetts General Hospital	377
	Western Bioethics on the Navajo Reservation: Benefit or Harm?	383
	Gender, Race, and Class in the Delivery of Health Care	392
	Index	403