Part I: INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS. 1.Ethical Theory and Bioethics. Fundamental Problems. The Study of Morality. Moral Dilemmas and Disagreements. The Problem of Relativism. Moral Justification.
Types of Ethical Theory. Utilitarian Theories. Kantian Theories. Contemporary Challenges to Traditional Theories. Virtue Ethics. The Ethics of Care. Casuistry. Ethical Principles.
Respect for Autonomy. Beneficence. Justice. Law and Policy. Ethics and Public Affairs. Morality and Law. Legal and Moral Rights. Law, Authority, And Autonomy.
Part II: JUSTICE AND AUTONOMY IN HEALTH CARE. 2. Justice in Access to Health Care. Introdcution. Just Health Care and the Right to Health Care. Norman Daniels, "Is There a Right to Health Care and, if so, What Does it Encompass?" Robert M. Veatch, "Justice, the Basic Social Contract, and Health Care." Allen E.
Buchanan, "The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care." H. Tristam Engelhardt, Jr. "Rights to Health Care." Managed Care and Access to Care. Lawrence O. Gostin, "Securing Health or Just Health Care?: The Effect of the Health Care System." Madison Powers, "Managed Care: How Economic Incentive Reforms Went Wrong.
" Allen Buchanan, "Managed Care: Rationing without Justice, But Not Unjustly." Rationing. Peter A. Ubel and Susan Dorr Goold, "''Rationing'' Health Care: Not All Definitions are Created Equal." Norman Daniels, "Rationing Fairly: Programmatic Considerations." Leonard Fleck, "Just Caring: Oregon, Health Care Rationing, and Informed Democratic Deliberation." 3. Autonomy Rights and Medical Information.
Introduction. The Confidentiality of Medical Information. Mark Siegler, "Confidentiality in Medicine - A Decrepit Concept." California Supreme Court, Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California. Morton E. Winston, "AIDS, Confidentiality, and the Right to Know." Truth Telling and Disclosing Bad News.
David C. Thomasma, "Telling the Truth to Patients: A Clinical Ethics Exploration." Garry S. Sigman, Jerome Kraut, and John La Puma, "Disclosure of a Diagnosis to Children and Adolescents When Parents Object. Informed Consent. United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, Cantebury v. Spence. Jay Katz, "Physicians and Patients: A History of Silence.
" Ruth R. Faden and Tom L. Beauchamp, "The Concept of Informed Consent." Robert J. Levine, "Informed Consent: Some Challenges to the Universal Validity of the Western Model." Refusal of Treatment. California Court of Appeals, Second District, Bouvia v. Superior Court.
United States Supreme Court, Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health. Advance Directives. Linda Emmanuel, Marion Danis, Robert A. Pearlman, and Peter A. Singer, "Advance Care Planning as a Process: Structuring the Discussions in Practice." Ben E. Rich, "Advance Directives: The Next Generation.
" Part III: LIFE AND DEATH. 4. End-of-Life Decisionmaking. Introduction. The Right to Die. F. M. Kamm, "A Right to Choose Death?" Leon R.
Kass, "Is There a Right to Die?" The Legal Background in the United States. The Oregon Death With Dignity Act. United States Supreme Court, Vacco v. Quil andWashington v. Glucksberg. The Supreme Court of California, Wendland v. Wendland. The Moral Foundations of Public Policy on Physician-Assisted Death.
Henck Jochemsen and John Keown, "Voluntary Euthanasia under Control?: Further Empirical Evidence from the Netherlands." Johannes J. M. van Delden, "Slippery Slopes in Flat Countries: A Response." Palliation and Other Alternatives to Physician-Assisted Death. Bernard Gert, Charles M. Culver, and K. Danner Clouser, "An Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide.
" Timothy E. Quill, Bernard Lo, and Dan W. Brock, "Palliative Options of Last Resort." 5. Abortion and Maternal-Fetal Relations. Introduction. The Problem Justifying Abortion. Don Marquis, "Why Abortion is Immoral.
" Judith Jarvis Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion." Baruch Brody, "The Morality of Abortion." Mary Anne Warren, "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion." Legal Issues of Aborti.