Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Abortion and reproduction: An Ethical challenge to prochoice advocates -- Reflections on the moral status of the pre-embryo -- The Choice in ''Choose life'' -- HIV and pregnancy -- The Argument for unlimited procreative liberty: the ferminist critique -- Therapy or tampering: the ethics of reproductive technology and development of doctrine -- Ethical issues in manipulating the human germ line -- Human gene therapy: why draw a line? -- Death and dying: The Burden and blessing of morality -- Death and diginity: a case of individualized decision making -- The PVS patient and the forgoing/withdrawing of medical nutrition and hydration -- Unsuccessful emergency medical resuscitation: are continued efforts in the emergency department justified? -- Friend-of-the-court brief for Larry James McAfee -- Living wills: past, present, and future -- Initiative119: what is at stake? -- Consent, therapy, and research: Deciding for others: issues of consent -- Informed demands for ''non-beneficial'' medical treatment -- Balancing moral principles in federal regulations of human research -- Building a new consensus: ethical principles and policies for clinical research on HIV/AIDS -- Is consent useful when resuscitation isn't? -- Privacy and disclosure in medical genetics examined in an ethics of care -- Public policy issues: Toward a feminist theory of disability -- Quality-adjusted life-years: ethical implications for physicians and policymakers -- The Oregon priority-setting exercise: quality of life and public policy -- Ethics, public policy, and human fetal tissue -- Routine inquiry about organ donation: an alternative to presumed consent -- Organs for sale? propriety, property, and the price of progress -- Which ills to bear? reevaluating the ''threat'' of modern genetics -- Public health policy and the aids epidemic: an end to HIV exceptionalism? -- An ethical framework for rationing health care.