Life choices: a Hastings Center introduction to bioethics

Pt. I. Introduction: Can Ethics Provide Answers?

Can Ethics Provide Answers? / James Rachels

Role of Emotion in Ethical Decisionmaking / Sidney Callahan

Where Ethics Comes From and What to Do About It / Carl Elliott

Pt. II. Goals and Allocation of Medicine

Executive Summary / Hastings Center Project Report

Setting New Priorities

Specifying the Goals of Medicine

Medicine and Public Health, Ethics and Human Rights / Jonathan M. Mann

Last-Chance Therapies and Managed Care: Pluralism, Fair Procedures, and Legitimacy / Norman Daniels and James E. Sabin

Rescuing Lives: Can't We Count? / Paul T. Menzel

Public Good and Fair Prices: Balancing Technological Innovation with Social Well-Being / Baruch Brody

Pt. III. Biomedicine, Rights, and Responsibilities

Burden of Decision / Alexander Morgan Capron

What About the Family? / John Hardwig

Family in Medical Decisionmaking / Jeffrey Blustein

Pt. IV. Reproductive Freedom and Responsibility

Abortion: The Right to an Argument / Gilbert Meilaender

Is There Life After Roe v. Wade? / Mary B. Mahowald

Abortion: Listening to the Middle / Edward A. Langerak

Pt. V. Termination of Treatment

Is There Duty to Die? / John Hardwig

Terminating Treatment: Age as a Standard / Daniel Callahan

Triage in the ICU / Robert D. Truog

Is Consent Useful When Resuscitation Isn't? / Giles R. Scofield

In Death's Shadow: The Meanings of Withholding Resuscitation / Kathleen Nolan

Must Patients Always Be Given Food and Water? / Joanne Lynn and James F. Childress

Standards of Judgement for Treatment / Edited by Arthur Caplan and Cynthia B. Cohen

Deciding Not to Employ Aggressive Measures / Edited by Arthur Caplan and Eynthia B. Cohen

Anencephalic Donors: Separating the Dead from the Dying / Alexander Morgan Capron

Assisted Suicide: Pro-Choice or Anti-Life? / Richard Doerflinger

Voluntary Active Euthanasia / Dan W. Brock

When Self-Determination Runs Amok / Daniel Callahan

Pt. VI. Family, Parenthood, and New Reproductive Technologies

Artificial Means of Reproduction and Our Understanding of the Family / Ruth Macklin

Reproductive Gifts and Gift Giving: The Altruistic Woman / Janice G. Raymond

Genetic Diagnosis of Human Embryos / Andrea Bonnicksen

Not All That Glitters Is Gold / Barbara Katz Rothman

Resolving Disputes over Frozen Embryos / John A. Robertson

Case Against Thawing Unused Frozen Embryos / David T. Ozar

Pt. VII. Organ and Tissue Donation and Procurement and Transplantation

My Body, My Property / Lori B. Andrews

Alternative to Property Rights in Human Tissue / Margaret S. Swain and Randy W. Marusyk

Organ Procurement: It's Not in the Cards / Arthur L. Caplan

Designated Organ Donation: Private Choice in Social Context / Eike-Henner W. Kluge

Pt. VIII. Genetics, Human Nature, Human Destiny

First Fruits: Genetic Screening / Kathleen Nolan

Genetic Secrets: Social issues of Medical Screening in a Genetic Age / Elaine Draper

Bad Axioms in Genetic Engineering / C. Keith Boone

Genetics and Human Malleability / W. French Anderson

Taking Behavioral Genetics Seriously / Erik Parens

Pt. IX. Cloning Human Beings: Responding to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission's Report

Challenges of Public Ethics: Reflections on NABC's Report / James F. Childress

Ban Cloning? Why NABC Is Wrong / Susan M. Wolf

Articles from the Hastings Center Report.

Can ethics provide answers? / James Rachels

The role of emotion in ethical decisionmaking / Sidney Callahan

The burden of decision / Alexander Morgan Capron

What about the family? / John Hardwig

The family in medical decisionmaking / Jeffrey Blustein

Abortion : the right to an argument / Gilbert Meilaender

Is there life after Roe v. Wade? / Mary B. Mahowald

Abortion : listening to the middle / Edward A. Langerak

Àbortion pill' RU-486 : ethics, rhetoric, and social practice / Lisa Sowle Cahill

Knowing when to stop : the limits of medicine / Nancy S. Jecker

Terminating treatment : age as a standard / Daniel Callahan

Triage in the ICU / Robert D. Truog

Is consent useful when resuscitation isn't ? / Giles R. Scofield

In death's shadow : the meanings of withholding resuscitation / Kathleen Nolan

Must patients always be given food and water? / Joanne Lynn and James F. Childress

Standards of judgment for treatment / edited by Arthur Caplan and Cynthia B. Cohen

Deciding not to employ aggressive measures / edited by Arthur Caplan and Cynthia B. Cohen

Anencephalic donors : separating the dead from the dying / Alexander Morgan Capron

Assisted suicide : pro-choice or anti-life? / Richard Doerflinger

When self-determination runs amok / Daniel Callahan

Voluntary active euthanasia / Dan W. Brock

Artificial means of reproduction and our understanding of the family / Ruth Macklin

Reproductive gifts and gift giving : the altruistic woman / Janice G. Raymond

What price parenthood? / Paul Lauritzen

Genetic diagnosis of human embryos / Andrea Bonnicksen

Not all that glitters is gold / Barbara Katz Rothman

Resolving disputes over frozen embryos / John A. Robertson

The case against thawing unused frozen embryos / David T. Ozar

My body, my property / Lori B. Andrews

An alternative to property rights in human tissue / Margaret S. Swain and Randy W. Marusyk

Organ procurement : it's not in the cards / Arthur L. Caplan

Designated organ donation : private choice in social context / Eike-Henner W. Kluge

Rights, symbolism, and public policy in fetal tissue transplants / John A. Robertson

Genug ist Genug : a fetus is not a kidney / Kathleen Nolan

The ethical options in transplanting fetal tissue / Mary B. Mahowald, Jerry Silver, and Robert A. Ratcheson

First fruits : genetic screening / Kathleen Nolan

Genetic secrets : social issues of medical screening in a genetic age / Elaine Draper

Bad axioms in genetic engineering / C. Keith Boone

Genetics and human malleability / W. French Anderson.