The Patient As Person Book

	Foreword
	"The Structure of an Ethical Revolution: Paul Ramsey, The Beecher Lectures, and the Birth of Bioethics"
	"The Patient as Person: Beyond Ramsey's Beecher Lectures"
	Preface
1	Consent as a Canon of Loyalty with Special Reference to Children in Medical Investigations	1
	Ethics in the Consent Situation	3
	The Ethics of Consent	5
	Research Involving Children or Incompetents	11
	The Guidelines	19
	Pro and Con	26
	Children in Institutions	40
2	On Updating Procedures for Stating That a Man Has Died	59
	The Challenge to Old-Fashioned Death	59
	What Death Is and Telling That Death Has Occurred	63
	Updating Death	68
	The Harvard Report	89
	On Not Confusing Death with Stopping Extraordinary Means	98
	On Not Confusing Death with "Organ Donor Eligibility"	101
3	On (Only) Caring for the Dying	113
	The Problem	114
	Ordinary and Extraordinary Means	118
	The Morality of (Only) Caring for the Dying	124
	The Process of Dying	132
	Caring for the Seriously Ill and the Irreversibly Ill	136
	The Same Objection from Two Opposite Extremes	144
	Two Possible Qualifications of Our Duty Always to Care for the Dying	157
4	The Self-Giving of Vital Organs: A Case Study in Comparative Ethics	165
	Am I My Twin Brother's Keeper?	165
	The State of the Question in Roman Catholic Morals	175
	Transimplantation as a Single, Uninterrupted Action	181
	The State of the Question in a Possible Protestant Position	185
	A Meditation on Medicine's Ministry to the Flesh	188
5	Giving or Taking Cadaver Organs for Transplants	198
6	A Caveat on Heart Transplants	216
	In the Prism of a Far Away Case	216
	Heart Transplants as Investigational Trials	221
	Heart Transplants as Treatment, Elective Only	227
7	Choosing How to Choose: Patients and Sparse Medical Resources	239
	Let the Better Man Live	242
	A Human Lottery?	252
	All Should Die When Not all Can Be Saved	259
	How Shall Sparse Medical Resources Be Distributed Justly?	266
	Index	277