Contents

• Is informed consent still central to medical ethics?
• Should truth-telling depend on the patient’s culture?
• Does direct-to-consumer drug advertising enhance patient choice?
• Do some advance directives limit patients’ rights?
• Do standard medical ethics apply in disaster conditions?
• Should physicians be allowed to assist in patient suicide?
• Should doctors be able to refuse demands for "futile" treatment?
• Is abortion immoral?
• Should a pregnant woman be punished for exposing her fetus to risk?
• Should adolescents be allowed to make their own life-and-death decisions?
• Do parents harm their children when they refuse medical treatment on religions [sic] grounds?
• Is the ban on federal funding of human stem cell research justifiable?
• Is genetic enhancement an unacceptable use of technology?
• Should animal experimentation be permitted?
• Should prisoners be allowed to participate in research?
• Should federally funded health care be tied to following doctors’ orders? - - Dies military necessity override medical ethics?
• Should performance-enhancing drugs be banned from sports?
• Should there be a free market in body parts?
• Should pharmacists be allowed to deny prescriptions on grounds of conscience?
• Should public health override powers over individual liberty in combatting bioterrorism?