Medical Ethics at the Dawn of the 21^st Century

Editor, Raphael Cohen-Almagor

New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 2000

Table of Contents

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Introduction

I. Health Care Resources and the Role of Doctors

Eike-Henner W. Kluge

Social Values, Socio-Economic Resources and Effectiveness Coefficients: An Ethical Model for Statistically Based Resource Allocation

Frederick H. Lowy

The Ethical Professor of Medicine: Challenges for the 21st Century

John Lantos

Open Heart (Shiva M'Hodu)

Antonella Surbone

Truth Telling

Gershon H. Growe

The Evolution of A Hospital Ethics Committee (Philosophy and Practice)

II. Beginning and End of Life Issues

Rebecca J. Cook

Developments in Abortion Laws: Comparative and International Perspectives

Bernard M. Dickens

The Continuing Conflict Between Sanctity of Life and Quality of Life: From Abortion to Medically Assisted Death

Ron Berghmans

Advance Directives and Dementia

Tom L. Beauchamp

The Autonomy Turn in Physician-Assisted Suicide

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

A Circumscribed Plea for Voluntary Physician-assisted Suicide

Jan C. Joerden

Peter Singer’s Theories and their Reception in Germany

Evert van Leeuwen and Gerrit Kimsma

Problems Involved in the Moral Justification of Medical Assistance in Dying: Coming to Terms with Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide

Govert den Hartogh

Euthanasia: Reflections on the Dutch Discussion

III. The Age of Bio-technology

Justice Dalia Dorner

Jurisprudence in the Age of Bio-technology: Reflections on the Nachmani Case

John A. Robertson

Reproductive Liberty and the Right to Clone Human Beings

John Harris

Clones, Genes and Reproductive Autonomy: The Ethics of Human Cloning

Joan McIver Gibson

Genetic Research: Conversation Across Cultures

Robert D. Truog

Organ Transplantation Without Brain Death

Deni Elliott

Genetic Testing, Organ Transplantation and an End to Non-Directive Counseling

Notes on Contributors

Index