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An Analogical Argument for Stem Cell Research -- Marginal Cases and the Moral Status of Embryos -- Fixations on the Moral Status of the Embryo -- Nazi Experiments and Stem Cell Research -- Recent Ethical Controversies About Stem Cell Research -- Complicity in Embryonic and Fetal Stem Cell Research and Applications: Exploring and Extending Catholic Responses -- Women, Commodification, and Embryonic Stem Cell Research.

Enter the Elderly Woman as Citizen: The Implications of a Feminist Ethics of Care -- Disrespecting Our Elders: Attitudes and Practices of Care(lessness) -- Hazards of Decoupling Respect from Rights: The Inclusion of Elderly Severely Demented Patients in "Nontherapeutic" Clinical Trials -- Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Community-Based Care: A New Set of Principles -- Care Home Ethics -- The Ethics of Pain Management in Older Adults -- Duties to Aging Parents -- Filial Obligation, Kant's Duty of Beneficence, and Need.

Mental Illness and Commitment -- Involuntary Outpatient Commitment -- Cognitive Behavioral and Pharmacological Interventions for Mood- and Anxiety-Related Problems: An Examination from an Existential Ethical Perspective -- Managing Values in Managed Behavioral Health Care: A Case Study -- The Changing Form of Psychiatric Care -- Tarasoff, Megan, and Mill: Preventing Harm to Others.

Is Too Much Privacy Bad for Your Health? An Introductionto the Law and Ethics of Medical Privacy -- An Egalitarian Justification of Medical Privacy -- Medical Privacy in the Information Age: Ethical Issues, PolicySolutions -- Medical Information Privacy and the Conduct of Biomedical Research -- Privacy and Health Insurance: Can Oil and Water Mix? -- Data Mining, Dataveillance, and Medical Information Privacy -- Promulgation of "Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information: Final Rule" (Editor's Postscript).

Global Life Expectancies and the Duty to Die -- Is There a Duty to Die? -- Do We Have a Duty to Die? -- The Duty to Die: A Contractarian Approach -- Rule Utilitarianism and the Right to Die -- The Nature, Scope, and Implications of a Personal Moral Duty to Die -- Analyzing the Moral Duty to Die -- Duty to Die -- How Could There Be a Duty to Die? -- Do We Ever Have a Duty to Die? -- Grandma, the GNP, and the Duty to Die -- Dying for Others: Family, Altruism, and a Duty to Die.

In Alternative Medicine and Ethics, leading bioethicists and philosophers examine and debate the question of how the health care system should deal with using complimentary and alternative medicines. The distinguished authorities writing here both defend and criticize alternative medicine, with some arguing that the medical system should change substantially in order to accommodate alternative medicine, and others claiming that virtually all alternative treatments are worthless. In the heat of the debate many fundamental issues are raised concerning our health care system, among them the questions of therapeutic effectiveness, media truthfulness, the patient's freedom to choose among treatment options, health insurance coverage, the ability of the current healthcare delivery system to meet patients' needs, and government approval of alternative medicines. The issues raised in Alternative Medicine and Ethics pose numerous challenges to the healthcare delivery system that presently dominates in the United States and Canada. The points made here will help bioethicists, medical professionals, managers, and public policy experts to better understand the fundamental nature of our health care system and better meet patients' needs

In Human Cloning a panel of distinguished philosophers, medical ethicists, religious thinkers, and social critics tackle the thorny problems raised by the now real possibility of human cloning. In their wide ranging reviews, the distinguished contributors critically examine the major arguments for and against human cloning, probe the implications of such a procedure for society, and critically evaluate the "Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission." The debate includes both religious and secular arguments, as well as an outline of the history of the cloning debate and a discussion of human cloning's impact on our sense of self and our beliefs about the meaning of life. Human Cloning offers a timely and concise one volume survey of all the major arguments for and against human cloning. It will well serve medical ethicists, social and cultural critics, public policy specialists, and the educated layperson who wants to better understand this issue and its implications for our society, culture, and civilization

In What is Disease?, renowned philosophers and medical ethicists survey and elucidate the profoundly important concepts of disease and health. Christopher Boorse begins with an extensive reexamination of his seminal definition of disease as a value-free scientific concept. In responding to all those who criticized this view, which came to be called "naturalism" or "neutralism," Boorse clarifies and updates his landmark ideas on this crucial question. Other distinguished thinkers analyze, develop, and oftentimes defend competing, nonnaturalistic theories of disease, including discussions of the relevance of these concepts to the question of "diseased" sexual orientation and to alternative medicine. What is Disease? brings concerned readers up-to-date in the debate over the proper definition of "disease," a concept of central importance not only for bioethicists, but also for those throughout clinical medicine, sociology, psychology, and law who deal with disease and its associated problems on an everyday basis

In Reproduction, Technology, and Rights, philosophers and ethicists debate the central moral issues and problems raised by today's revolution in reproductive technology. Leading issues discussed include the ethics of paternal obligations to children, the place of in vitro fertilization in the allocation of health care resources, and the ethical implications of such new technologies as blastomere separation and cloning. Also considered are how parents and society should respond to knowledge gained from prenatal testing and whether or not the right to abort should relieve men of the duty to support unwanted children. Reproduction, Technology, and Rights illuminates the moral and ethical choices that our society faces because of advances in reproductive technology and helps to make those decisions better informed

In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the current health care debate. The contributors wrestle with such complicated issues as whether it is ethical to ration health care, the morality of the worldwide bias against children in allocating health care resources, whether sin taxes can be defended morally, and how to achieve a just health care system. The book also includes an insightful analysis of the Clinton health care reform plan. ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES will be of interest to philosophers, health policy experts, medical ethicists, health professionals, and concerned citizens. It serves to clarify and illuminate the logic and rhetoric of health care reform, and so to help us all achieve a fair and equitable distribution of these precious resources

Who has more rights-the mother or the fetus? Interdisciplinary in scope and character, this latest volume of Humana's classic series, Biomedical Ethics Reviews, focuses on the complex moral and legal problems involving human fetal life. Each article in Bioethics and the Fetus provides an up-to-date review of the literature and advances bioethical discussion in its field. The authors have avoided much of the technical jargon of philosophy and medicine in order to speak directly to a broad and general readership. Topics include: • maternal-fetal conflict • the disposition of aborted fetuses • frozen embryos • creating children to save sibling's lives • fetal tissue transplantation • moral implications of fetal brain integration • the embryo as patient • prenatal diagnosis. Probing deeply into these thorny issues, Bioethics and the Fetus offers thought-provoking reading-and paves the ground for new insight-for a host of healthcare and other professionals, as well as concerned laypersons