The nature and the seven goals of medicine as objects of a dramatic free choice of the physician today

1-87

The dignity of the human person as a "universal of medical ethics"

89-138

From the morally relevant goals of medicine to medical ethics

139-185

The freedom of choice for or against the basic goods and ends of medicine

187-236

Rational justification of an objective and publicly acceptable bioethics

237-304

Are there absolute moral obligations towards finite goods?

a critique of "teleological ethics" and of the destruction of bioethics through consequentialism

305-348

Epilogue

Herbert Spiegelberg

349-353