The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a guide to the complex literature written on the increasingly dense topic of ethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine. Examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resulted from the rapid advances in biomedical technology Brings together the leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, to discuss these issues Tackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, selling body parts, resourcing and confidentiality Organized with a coherent structure that differentiates between the decisions of individuals and those of social policy.

The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a guide to thecomplex literature written on the increasingly dense topic ofethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine.* Examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resultedfrom the rapid advances in biomedical technology* Brings together the leading scholars from a wide range ofdisciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, todiscuss these issues* Tackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, sellingbody parts, resourcing and confidentiality* Organized with a coherent structure that differentiates betweenthe decisions of individuals and those of social policy.

Notes on Contributors.Introduction: Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)Leslie P. Francis (University of Utah) and Anita Silvers (SanFrancisco State University).Part I: Individual Decisions About Clinical Issues.I.1: Patient Decisions.1. Autonomy, the Good Life and Controversial Choices: JulianSavulescu (University of Oxford).2. Individual Responsibility and Reproduction: Rachel A. Ankeny(University of Sydney).3. Patient and Family Decisions about Life-Extension and Death:Felicia Nimue Ackerman (Brown University).I.2: Individual Decisions of Physicians and Other Health CareProfessionals.4. The Professional Responsibilities of Medicine: RosamondRhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine).5. Truth telling: Roger Higgs (Emeritus, King's CollegeLondon).6. Medical Confidentiality: Kenneth Kipnis (University of Hawaiiat Manoa).7. Patient Competence and Surrogate Decision-Making: Dan W.Brock (Harvard Medical School).8. Ending Life: F.M. Kamm (Harvard University).9. Discrimination in Medical Practice: Justice and theObligations of Health Care Providers to Disadvantaged Patients:Leslie P. Francis (University of Utah).10. Institutional Practices, Ethics, and the Physician: Mary V.Rorty (Stanford University), Ann E. Mills (University of Virginia)and Patricia H. Werhane (DePaul University).Part II: Legislative and Judicial Decisions About SocialPolicy.II.2: Liberty.11. Reproductive Choice: Rebecca Bennett (University ofManchester) and John Harris (University of Manchester).12. Public Policy and Ending Lives: Evert van Leeuwen (VrijeUniversiteit Medisch Centrum), and Gerrit Kimsma (VrijeUniversiteit Medisch Centrum).13. Drug Legalization: Douglas N. Husak (RutgersUniversity).14. Selling Organs, Gametes, and Surrogacy Services: JanetRadcliffe Richards (University College, London).15. The Patient as Victim and Vector: The Challenge ofInfectious Disease for Bioethics: Margaret P. Battin (University ofUtah), Leslie P. Francis (University of Utah), Jay A. Jacobson(University of Utah), Charles B. Smith (Emeritus, University ofUtah).16. Uses of Science in Medical Ethics: Glenn McGee (AlbanyMedical College) and Dyrleif Bjarnadóttir.11.2: Justice.17. Allocation of Scarce Resources: Paul Menzel (PacificLutheran University).18. Just Caring: The Challenges of Priority-Setting in PublicHealth: Leonard M. Fleck (Michigan State University).19. Justice and the Financing of Health Care: Stephen R. Latham(Quinnipiac University).20. Judgment and Justice: Evaluating Health Care for ChronicallyIll and Disabled Patients: Anita Silvers (San Francisco StateUniversity).21. Justice in Research on Human Subjects: David R. Buchanan(National Cancer Institute, Bethesda), and Franklin G. Miller(National Institutes of Health, Bethesda).22. Ethics of Disclosure Following a Medical Injury: Time forReform?: Troyen Anthony Brennan (Emeritus, Harvard MedicalSchool).23. Pre-existing Conditions: Genetic Testing, Causation and theJustice of Medical Insurance: Robert T. Pennock (Michigan StateUniversity).Index