Readings in health care ethics / edited by Elisabeth Boetzkes and Wilfrid J. Waluchow.

Contents;

Chapter 1: Introduction
Ethical resources for decision-making

Chapter 2: Relationships in health care
1. Four models of the physician-patient relationship
2. The virtuous physician and the ethics of medicine
3. Separating care and cure: An analysis of historical and contemporary images of nursing and medicine
4. A relational approach to autonomy in health care
5. Caring for patients in cross-cultural settings
etc.

Chapter 3: Consent
10. A moral theory of consent
11. Competency to give an informed consent: A model for making clinical assessments
12. The physician as therapist and investigator
13. After "Eve": Whither proxy decision-making?
14. Proxy consent for research on the incompetent elderly
15. Bioethics for clinicians: Involving children in medical decisions

Chapter 3: Reproduction
16. Class, feminist, and communication critiques of procreative liberty
17. Reflections on reproductive rights in Canada
18. Feminist ethics and in vitro fertilization
19. "Give me children or I shall die!": New reproductive technologies and harm to children
20. Listening to voices of the infertile
21. A case for permitting altruistic surrogacy

Chapter 5: Fetal rights
22. Why abortion is immoral
23. A third way
24. The moral significance of birth
25. Abortion through a feminist ethics lens
26. Moral obligations to the not-yet born: The fetus as patient

Chapter 6: Screening and treatment of "disabled" newborns
27. Prenatal diagnosis: Reproductive choice? Reproductive control?
28. Loving future people
29. Decisions regarding disabled newborns
30. Choosing children's sex: Challenges to feminist ethics

Chapter 7: Death, dying, and euthanasia
31. Euthanasia: The fundamental issues
32. When self-determination runs amok
33. Voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: Beyond control?
etc,

Chapter 8: Research involving human subjects
36. Reframing research involving humans
37. Baby fae: The "Anything goes" school of human experimentation
38. "Being old makes you different": The ethics of research with elderly subjects
39. The ethics of genetic research on sexual orientation
etc.

Chapter 9: Scarce medical resources
42. Purpose and function in government-funded health coverage
43. The prostitute, the playboy, and the poet: Rationing schemes for organ transplantation
44. In vitro fertilization and the just use of health care resources
45. Equality and efficiency as basic social values
etc.

Chapter 10: Acquiring and distributing body parts
47. Anencephalic newborns as organ donors: A critique
48. Join the club: A modest proposal to increase availability of donor organs
49. On giving preference to prior volunteers when allocating organs for transplantation
50. As if there were fetuses without women: A remedial essay
etc.

Chapter 11: Genetics
53. Cloning, ethics, and religion
54. Germ-line therapy and the medical imperative
55. Multiplex genetic testing
56. A germ-line genetic alteration

Includes bibliographical references.