Introduction

taking stock of bioethics from a philosophical perspective

George Khushf

1-28

The history of bioethics as a discipline

Albert R. Jonsen

31-51

Principles and principlism

Tom L. Beauchamp, David DeGrazia

55-74

Casuistry

Joseph Boyle

75-88

Virtue theory in philosophy of medicine

David C. Thomasma

89-120

Common morality

K. Danner Clouser, Bernard Gert

121-141

Feminist approaches to bioethics

Rosemarie Tong

143-161

Four narrative approaches to bioethics

Hilde Lindemann Nelson

163-181

Philosophy of medicine and medical ethics

A phenomenological perspective

Edmund D. Pellegrino

183-202

The logic of health concepts

Lennart Nordenfelt

205-222

Physicians and patients in relation

clinical interpretation and dialogues of trust

Richard Zaner

223-250

Informed consent

Stephen Wear

251-290

Philosophical challenges to the use of advance directives

Cynthia B. Cohen

291-314

Ethics committees and case consultation

Theory and practice

Mark G. Kuczewski

315-334

The ethics of controlled clinical trials

Baruch Brody

337-352

Ethical issues in the use of cost effectiveness analysis for the prioritization of health resources

Dan Brock

353-380

Sic et non

some disputed questions in reproductive ethics

Christopher Tollefsen

381-413

Testing genes and constructing humans — ethics and genetics

Kurt Bayertz, Kurt W. Schmidt

415-438

Death, dying, euthanasia, and palliative care

perspectives from philosophy of medicine and ethics

441-471

Philosophical issues in psychiatry

Osborne P. Wiggins, Michael A. Schwartz, Michael A. Schwartz

473-488

Nursing ethics

Sara T. Fry

489-505

Geroethics

Laurence Mccullough

507-523

Ethics and philosophy of public health

Douglas L. Weed

525-547