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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.

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

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