Table of Contents:
  • General perspectives
  • Medical aspects of the beginning of individual lives / Fritz K. Beller, Gail P. Zlatnik
  • Beginning of full moral standing / Robert M. Veatch
  • Legal aspects of the beginning of human life / Bernard M. Dickens
  • Development of the human brain: the emergence of the neural substrate for pain perception and conscious experience / Rodrigo O. Kuljis
  • Moral significance of brain-life criteria / Hans-Martin Sass
  • Assisted reproductive technology
  • Assisted reproductive technologies of the 1980s and 1990s: the state of the art and a look at the future / Ricardo H. Asch
  • Human reproductive technology: why all the moral fuss? / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
  • Gestational surrogacy and the health care provider / Karen H. Rothenberg
  • Contraception and abortion
  • Beginning of human life: contraceptive implications / Luigi Mastroianni, Jr.
  • Abortion: a public health perspective / Allan Rosenfield, Hillary Kunins
  • Abortion and contraception: the moral significance of fertilization / Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer.
  • (cont) Contraception and abortion: legal distinctions and dynamics / Rebecca J. Cook
  • Fetal research and fetal tissue
  • Use of human fetal tissue for research and therapy / Kenneth J. Ryan
  • Restriction and suppression of fetal and pre-embryo research, 1974-1990 / John C. Fletcher
  • Two problems in embryo research / John A. Robertson
  • Fetal tissue transplantation and women / Mary B. Mahowald
  • Fetal tissue transplantation: an institutional review board perspective / Susan R. Johnson
  • Medical, ethical and legal aspects of maternal/fetal relationships
  • Primary care fetal medicine / Carl P. Weiner
  • Court-ordered cesarean delivery / Frank A. Chervenak, Laurence B. McCullough
  • Pregnant drug addicts / Bonnie Steinbock
  • Women's rights versus the protection of fetuses / Mary A. Warren
  • Mother and fetus union: what God has put together, let no law put asunder? / Lawrence J. Nelson
  • Coercion for fetal therapy? / Mark I. Evans ... [et al.]
  • Rights and obligations related to the beginning of individual human lives.
  • (cont) When care cannot cure: medical problems in seriously ill babies / Neil Campbell
  • Transplantation and the anencephalic newborn / Robert D. Truog
  • Life-and-death decisions in the midst of uncertainty / Robert F. Weir
  • When is medical treatment futile? / Loretta M. Kopelman
  • Treatment decisions for premature and disabled newborns: hard cases make bad law / Elizabeth M. Schmidt.