PART I—FOUNDATIONS IN THEORY

Chapter 1 Theory of Health Care Ethics
    James Summers 
Chapter 2 Principles of Health Care Ethics
    James Summers

PART II—CRITICAL ISSUES FOR INDIVIDUALS    

Chapter 3: The Moral Status of Gametes and Embryos: Storage and Surrogacy 
    Glenn C. Graber
Chapter 4: The Ethical Challenge of the New Reproductive Technology
    Sidney Callahan
Chapter 5: Abortion: The Unexplored Middle Ground 
    Carol Petrozella
Chapter 6: Proposals for Human Cloning:  A Review and Ethical Evaluation 
    Kevin T. Fitzgerald 
Chapter 7: Competency: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Why It Matters
    Byron Chell
Chapter 8: The Patient Self-Determination Act   
    David B. Clarke
Chapter 9: Older People and Long-Term Care: Issues of Access
    Janet Gardner-Ray
Chapter 10 Respecting Autonomy of Elders in Nursing Homes
    George J. Agich
Chapter 11: Death, Medicine, and Moral Significance of Family Decision Making
    James Lindemann Nelson
Chapter 12: Ethical Issues in the Use of Fluids and Nutrition: When Can They Be Withdrawn
    T. Patrick Hill 
Chapter 13: Ethical Issues Concerning Physician-Assisted Death 
    Barbara Supanich

PART III—CRITICAL ISSUES FOR HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

Chapter 14: Health Care Institutional Ethics:  Broader than Clinical Ethics  
    Carrie Zoubul
Chapter 15: Hospital Ethics Committees: Rules, Membership Structure and Difficulties
    John F. Monagle and Michael P. West
Chapter 16: Ethically Important Distinctions among Managed Care Organizations
    Jessica Moore
Chapter 17: Bioethical Dilemmas in Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Care
    Kenneth V. Iverson
Chapter 18: High Technology Home Care: Critical Issues and Ethical Choices
    Melissa Brandon
Chapter 19: Spirituality in Health Care Organizations   
  Dexter Freeman and Eileen E. Morrison

PART IV—CRITICAL ISSUES IN SOCIETAL HEALTH

Chapter 20: Equality and Inequality in American Health Care  
    Nick King
Chapter 21:  Is Rationing of Health Care Ethically Defensible? 
    Chris Hackler
Chapter 22: Domestic Violence:  Changing Theory, Changing Practice
    Carole Warshaw
Chapter 23: Ethics Issues in Disaster Relief    
    Karen Bawel-Brinkley and Eileen E. Morrison  
Chapter 24 Looking toward the Future    
    Eileen E. Morrison

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