"This new edition retains in-depth discussion of famous cases, while providing updated, detailed analysis of the issues those cases raise. Each chapter also focuses on a key question that could be debated in class. Unique to this text is a single, authorial voice integrating description of the cases and their issues with historical overviews. The text is the only one that follows cases over decades to tell readers what did and, often, what did not, happen. Written by a professor who helped found bioethics and who has published in the field for 40 years, the text gives students a sense of mastery over this exciting, complex field. After they have read the book, I hope that students will feel that they have learned something important and that time studying the material has been well spent. New research was added to each chapter, and a new list of topics to debate was included on the inside cover of the book. Every chapter has been rewritten, tightened, and augmented; issues have been clarified"-- Provided by publisher.

Textbook for PH 205 Ethics in Healthcare (different instructors may require different texts).

Part 1: Ground-breaking cases about death and dying. Requests to die : Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee ; Comas : Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terri Schiavo ; Physician-assisted dying : new frontiers -- Part 2: Ground-breaking cases about the beginnings of human life. Abortion : the trial of Kenneth Edelin ; Assisted reproduction, multiple births, and elderly parents : time to regulate? ; Embryos, stem cells, and cloning ; The ethics of treating impaired babies ; Can medical research on animals be justified? : the Gennarelli and Taub cases -- Part 3: Interlude for ethical theory. Research on human subjects -- Part 4: Ground-breaking cases about research. Surgeons' desire for fame : the ethics of the first heart, hand, and face transplants ; Allocation of artificial and transplantable organs : the God Committee and live donors ; Using one baby for another : babies Fae, Gabriel, and Theresa, and conjoined twins ; Involuntary psychiatric commitment : the case of Joyce Brown ; Testing in advance for genetic disease -- Part 5: Ground-breaking cases about individual rights versus the public good. Preventing the global spread of Aids ; Medicine and inequality ; David Reimer : the "John/Joan case" ; Ethical theories and bioethics.