Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-347) and indexes.
Ch. 1. Objectives and Background Principles -- Ch. 2. Genetic Screening -- Ch. 3. The Human Genome Project -- Ch. 4. Death and Its Criteria -- Ch. 5. Organ Transplants -- Ch. 6. Suicide and Euthanasia: Moral and Legal Issues -- Ch. 7. Euthanasia: Moral and Medical Issues -- Ch. 8. Medical Ethics and Hospital Review Boards -- Ch. 9. Health-Care Policy: Issues -- Ch. 10. Two Proposed Health-Care Plans: Oregon Rationing and Managed Competition -- Ch. 11. Problems in Achieving Health-Care Reform -- Ch. 12. A Single-Payer National Health Plan -- Ch. 13. Moral, Medical, and Financial Issues -- Ch. 14. The Great Health-Care Debate -- Ch. 15. Epilogue