Part One: Ground-Breaking Cases about Death and Dying
Chapter 1: Requests to Die: Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee
Chapter 2: Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terri Schiavo
Chapter 3: Physician-Assisted Dying: New Frontiers Part Two: Ground-Breaking Cases about the Beginnings of Human Life
Chapter 4: Abortion: The Trial of Kenneth Edelin
Chapter 5: Assisted Reproduction, Multiple Births, and Elderly Parents—Time
to Regulate?
Chapter 6: Embryos, Stem Cells, and Cloning
Chapter 7: The Ethics of Treating Impaired Babies
Chapter 8: Can Medical Research on Animals Be Justified?: The Gennarelli and
Taub Cases Part Three: Interlude for Ethical Theory
Chapter 9: Research on Human Subjects Part Four: Ground-Breaking Cases about Research
Chapter 10: Surgeons’ Desire for Fame: The Ethics of the First Heart,
Hand, and Face Transplants
Chapter 11: Allocation of Artificial and Transplantable Organs: The God Committee
and Live Donors
Chapter 12: Using One Baby for Another: Babies Fae, Gabriel, and Theresa, and
Conjoined Twins
Chapter 13: Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: The Case of Joyce Brown
Chapter 14: Testing in Advance for Genetic Disease Part Five: Ground-Breaking Cases about Individual Rights versus the Public
Good
Chapter 15: Preventing the Global Spread of AIDS
Chapter 16: Medicine and Inequality
Chapter 17: David Reimer: The “John/Joan Case”
Chapter 18: Ethical Theories and Bioethics