Life choices : a Hastings Center introduction to bioethics / edited by Joseph H. Howell and William F. Sale ; foreword by Daniel Callahan.

[Washington, D.C.] : [Georgetown University Press], [1995], ©1995.

xiii, 537 pages ; 23 cm.

Can ethics provide answers? / James Rachels -- The role of emotion in ethical decisionmaking / Sidney Callahan -- The burden of decision / Alexander Morgan Capron -- What about the family? / John Hardwig -- The family in medical decisionmaking / Jeffrey Blustein -- Abortion : the right to an argument / Gilbert Meilaender -- Is there life after Roe v. Wade? / Mary B. Mahowald -- Abortion : listening to the middle / Edward A. Langerak -- Àbortion pill' RU-486 : ethics, rhetoric, and social practice / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Knowing when to stop : the limits of medicine / Nancy S. Jecker --Terminating treatment : age as a standard / Daniel Callahan -- Triage in the ICU / Robert D. Truog -- Is consent useful when resuscitation isn't ? / Giles R. Scofield -- In death's shadow : the meanings of withholding resuscitation / Kathleen Nolan -- Must patients always be given food and water? / Joanne Lynn and James F. Childress -- Standards of judgment for treatment / edited by Arthur Caplan and Cynthia B. Cohen -- Deciding not to employ aggressive measures / edited by Arthur Caplan and Cynthia B. Cohen -- Anencephalic donors : separating the dead from the dying / Alexander Morgan Capron -- Assisted suicide : pro-choice or anti-life? / Richard Doerflinger -- When self-determination runs amok / Daniel Callahan -- Voluntary active euthanasia / Dan W. Brock -- Artificial means of reproduction and our understanding of the family / Ruth Macklin -- Reproductive gifts and gift giving : the altruistic woman / Janice G. Raymond -- What price parenthood? / Paul Lauritzen -- Genetic diagnosis of human embryos / Andrea Bonnicksen -- Not all that glitters is gold / Barbara Katz Rothman -- Resolving disputes over frozen embryos / John A. Robertson -- The case against thawing unused frozen embryos / David T. Ozar -- My body, my property / Lori B. Andrews -- An alternative to property rights in human tissue / Margaret S. Swain and Randy W. Marusyk -- Organ procurement : it's not in the cards / Arthur L. Caplan -- Designated organ donation : private choice in social context / Eike-Henner W. Kluge -- Rights, symbolism, and public policy in fetal tissue transplants / John A. Robertson -- Genug ist Genug : a fetus is not a kidney / Kathleen Nolan -- The ethical options in transplanting fetal tissue / Mary B. Mahowald, Jerry Silver, and Robert A. Ratcheson -- First fruits : genetic screening / Kathleen Nolan -- Genetic secrets : social issues of medical screening in a genetic age / Elaine Draper -- Bad axioms in genetic engineering / C. Keith Boone -- Genetics and human malleability / W. French Anderson.

Includes bibliographical references