An ethical analysis of the portrayal of abortion in American fiction Book

	Foreword
Ch. I	Introduction	1
Ch. II	Review of six ethical aspects in religious thinking on abortion	21
Ch. III	Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy (1925)	85
Ch. IV	Ernest Hemingway's "Hills like white elephants" (1927)	115
Ch. V	John Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy (1938)	135
Ch. VI	William Faulkner's The wild palms (1939)	161
Ch. VII	Richard Brautigan's The abortion : an historical romance 1966 (1971)	181
Ch. VIII	John Irving's The cider house rules (1985)	209
Ch. IX	Other contemporary abortion fiction	229
Ch. X	Conclusion	269
App. A	American medical association policy statements and ethical options on abortion	277
App. B	Characteristics of abortion activists	281
App. C	Critical estimation of Dos Passos' characters	283
App. D	Critical evaluation of the convict in "old man"	285
App. E	Dreiser's obsession with sex	288
App. F	Euphemisms in abortion fiction	291
App. G	Infanticide and euthanasia novels	294
App. H	Medical definitions of "abortion" and "therapeutic abortion"	297
App. I	Nathanson's assertion of an inflation of abortion-related deaths as a pro-abortion strategy	301
App. J	Philosophical discussion on fertilization as the beginning of human life	303
App. K	Recent scholarship on Dreiser's use of the Gillette case	304
App. L	Review of initial research	306
App. M	Sections of the Babylonian Talmud concerning abortion	309
App. N	Select passages from Heffernan and Lynch	312
App. O	Theological examination of Saint Augustine's statements	314
App. P	Three reasons why criticism has not addressed ethical aspects of abortion	316