Introduction: Four Questions of Ethics

Part I: Ethics and Values in NUrsing

Chapter One: Values in Health and Illness

Chapter Two: The Nurse and Moral Authority

Part II: Ethical Issues in Nursing

Chapter Three: Benefiting the Patient and Others: The Duty to Produce Good and Avoid Harm

Chapter Four: Justice: The Allocation of Health Resources

Chapter Five: The Principle of Autonomy

Chapter Six: Veracity

Chapter Seven: Fidelity

Chapter Eight: The Sanctity of Human Life

Part III: Special Problem Areas in Nursing Practice

Chapter Nine: Abortion, Sterilization, and Contraception

Chapter Ten: Genetics, Birth, and the Biological Revolution

Chapter Eleven: Psychiatry and the Control of Human Behavior

Chapter Twelve: HIV/AIDS Care

Chapter Thirteen: Experimentation on Human Beings

Chapter Fourteen: Consent and the Right to Refuse Treatment

Chapter Fifteen: Death and Dying