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Requests to die : Elizabeth Bouvia and Larry McAfee -- Comas : Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terri Schiavo -- Physician-assisted dying : new frontiers -- 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 -- Research on human subjects -- 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 -- Preventing the global spread of Aids -- Medicine and inequality -- David Reimer : the "John/Joan case" -- Ethical theories and bioethics. |
