Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Nora K. Bell
  • Patients and their healers : historical studies in health care / Guenter B. Risse
  • Part I. Limits of professional autonomy
  • Goals of medical care : a reappraisal / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
  • Establishing limits to professional autonomy : whose responsibility? A nusing perspective / Mila Ann Aroskar
  • Limits to responsibility and decision-making : some comments / Jay Wolfson
  • Can physicians mind their own business and still practice medicine? / Samuel Gorovitz-- Allocating autonomy : can patients and practitioners share? / Sally Godow
  • Part II. Refusing/withdrawing from treatment
  • The right to refuse treatment : a critique / Thomas Szasz
  • Refusal of psychiatric treatment : autonomy, competence, and paternalism / Ruth Macklin
  • Consent and competence : a commentary on Szasz and Macklin / James L. Stiver
  • Part III. Death and dying : electing heroic measures
  • What is heroic? / James A. Bryan, II
  • The moral justification for withholding heroic procedures / Tom L. Beauchamp
  • Response to Bryan and Beauchamp / Kevin Lewis
  • Part IV. Advancing reproductive technology
  • Ethics and reproductive biology / Daniel Callahan
  • Fathers Anonymous : beyond the best interests of the sperm doner / George J. Annas
  • Law and ethics : three persistent myths / F. Patrick Hubbard.