Examines current controversies in medical ethics, including issues such as abortion, organ transplantation, euthanasia, and health care for teenagers, the critically ill, and AIDS patients.
Presents ethical and moral dilemmas relating to animal research, gene therapy, transplants, AIDS, mercy killing, and other controversial medical areas.
Discusses both sides of the debate over various medical-related issues, and covers medical ethics, drugs and drug testing, organ transplants, genetic engineering, stem cell research, and other related topics.
Presents a wide diversity of opinions on euthanasia, and includes discussions on ethics, legalization, physician-assisted suicide, decisions, and infant euthanasia.
Twenty-four articles present opposing viewpoints on questions regarding euthanasia, including whether it is ethical, whether physician-assisted suicide should be legal, whether legalizing voluntary euthanasia would lead to abuses, and when life support should be stopped.
Provides a discussion of medical ethics as they relate to organ and tissue donation and transplantation, end of life issues, and other life-and-death situations.
A collection of essays in which the author explores issues of medical ethics, discussing bioethics and bioethicists, assisted reproduction, cloning, death and dying, AIDS, and other topics.
Examines, both in scientific and ethical terms, genetic research, experiments in freezing, the development of artificial body parts, and progress in transplanting human organs.