Covers issues such as organ procurement, in-vitro fertilization, and the rationing of medical care. This book also contains essays on residents’ autonomy in nursing homes and on the ethical issues…

hope of obtaining a comprehensive and coherent understand ing of the human condition, we must somehow weave together the biological, sociological, and psychological components of human nature and experience.

Advances in medical technology and science have made organ procurement, or the search and transfer of organs and tissue from one body to another, an important issue. How are we…

With the mapping of the human genome and other genetic engineering techniques, scientists have embarked upon an era of biomedical research and with it a maze of ethical and legal…

Reprint. Originally published under the title: Prescribing our future. New York: De Gruyter, c1993.

Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.

Despite mass appeals and revolutionary changes in medicine, demand for human organs outstrips supply in the United States. This book offers a collection of writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and…