The Blackwell guide to medical ethics / edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis, and Anita Silvers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Autonomy, the good life and controversial choices / Julian Savulescu -- Individual responsibility and reproduction / Rachel A. Ankeny -- Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death / Felicia Nimue Ackerman -- The professional responsibilities of medicine / Rosamond Rhodes -- Truth telling / Roger Higgs -- Medical confidentiality / Kenneth Kipnis -- Patient competence and surrogate decision making / Dan Brock -- Ending life / Frances Myrna Kamm -- Discrimination in medical practice : justice and the obligations of health care providers to disadvantaged patients / Leslie P. Francis -- Institutional practices, ethics, and the physician / Mary V. Rorty, Ann E. Mills, and Patricia H. Werhane -- Reproductive choice / Rebecca Bennett and John Harris -- Public policy and ending lives / Evert van Leeuwen and Gerrit Kimsma -- Drug legalization / Douglas N. Husak --

Selling organs, gametes, and surrogacy services / Janet Radcliffe-Richards -- The patient as victim and vector : the challenge of infectious disease for bioethics / Margaret P. Battin ... [et al.] -- Controlling science and technology / Glenn McGee and DyÌrleif BjarnadoÌttir -- Allocation of scarce resources / Paul Menzel -- Just caring : the challenges of priority-setting in public health / Leonard M. Fleck -- Justice and the financing of health care / Stephen R. Latham -- Judgment and justice : evaluating health care for chronically ill and disabled patients / Anita Silvers -- Justice in research on human subjects / David R. Buchanan and Franklin G. Miller -- Community standards, medical mistakes, practice reform & malpractice / Troyen Anthony Brennan -- Pre-existing conditions : genetic testing, causation and the justice of medical insurance / Robert T. Pennock.