The Penn Center guide to bioethics

Bioethics: Birth, Evolution and Context. The birth and evolution of bioethics / Arthur L. Caplan

The ethics of bioethics / Robert Baker

The independence principle in bioethics / David Perlman

Health law and bioethics / Barry R. Furrow

Bioethics: the citizen view and its perils / John Timpane

Health and disease: conceptual perspectives and ethical implications / Dominic Sisti.

Emerging Issues: Neuroethics and Nanoethics. Neuroethics / Martha J. Farah

Is my mind mine? : neuroethics and brain imaging / Paul Root Wolpe

Future minds: transhumanism, cognitive enhancement, and the nature of persons / Susan Schneider

Nanotechnology and nanomedicine: ethical and social considerations / Jan Jaeger, Marisa P. Marcin, and Paul Root Wolpe.

Bioethics at the Bedside. Confidentiality: an expectation in health care / Anita L. Allen

Hospital ethics committees and ethics consultants / James J. McCartney

Ethical issues in nursing practice / Connie M. Ulrich and Mindy B. Zeitzer

Conscientious refusals by physicians / Holly Fernandez Lynch

Mediation and health care / Edward J. Bergman and Autumn Fiester

The moral education of medical students / Judah L. Goldberg

Disability perspectives on bioethics / Carol Schilling

Ethical issues in caregiving / Gerald I. Wolpe.

Research Ethics. Research misconduct and fraud / Barbara K. Redman

Ethical issues in innovative surgery / Angelique M. Reitsma

Unique aspects of informed consent in emergency research / Jill M. Barren

The ethics of inclusion and exclusion in clinical trials: race, sex, and age / Diana Zuckerman

The use of placebo-control groups in clinical trials / Susan S. Ellenberg

Forbidden knowledge / William R. LaFleur

Conflict of interest in American universities / Perry B. Molinoff.

Reproductive Technologies. Regulating assisted reproductive technology: avoiding extremes / Jennifer L. Rosato

Choosing future people: reproductive technologies and identity / Mark Greene

Ethical aspects of egg donation / Luigi Mastroianni, Jr.

Ethical aspects of male infertility / Georgios Karnakis and Pasquale Patrizio

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis: ethical considerations / Frances R. Batzer and Vardit Ravitsky

The influence of language on the beginning of life debate / Thomas A. Marino.

Genetics. Eugenics / Mark B. Adams

Human gene patents / Jon F. Merz

Genetics research and race: whither bioethics? / Pamela Sankar

Biobanks / Bernice S. Elger

Prenatal choices: genetic counseling for variable genetic diseases / Curtis R. Coughlin II

Ethical issues in animal biotechnology / Autumn Fiester

Ethical and social aspects of transgenic plants / David C. Magnus.

Fetuses and Children. The contested territory of medical decision-making for children / Wynne Morrison and Chris Feudtner

"This won't hurt a bit": truth-telling to children / Alisa A. Padon and Steven D. Handler

Children in research: linking assent and parental permission / Victoria A. Miller, William W. Reynolds, and Robert M. Nelson

Withdrawing and withholding life-prolonging therapies in children / Margaret M. Mahon

Ethical challenges in pediatric dialysis and kidney transplantation / Bernard S. Kaplan, Cynthia Green, H. Jorge Baluarte, and Kevin E.C. Meyers

The ethics of perinatal palliative care / Chris Feudtner and David Munson.

Access to Health Care. Health care access in the United States: American exceptionalism once more! / Stephen E. Lammers

Does the U.S. Constitution protect a right to unapproved drugs? / Theodore W. Ruger and Mahnu Davar

Fair pricing and access to medicines for the poor / Donald W. Light.

Community and Public Health. Public health ethics: an update on an emerging field / Michael Yudell

Bioethics "on the ground": public health matters / Joanne Godley

Disease control policy: individual rights versus the common good / Jason L. Schwartz

Bioethics and national security / Jonathan D. Moreno and Michael S. Peroski

Bringing the public to the private: increasing the accountability of nonprofit health organizations / Roberta M. Snow

The bioethics of tobacco / Eric A. Feldman

HIV exceptionalism and the mutability of ethical boundaries / Marlene Eisenberg, Michael B. Blank, and Ronald Bayer.

Vaccines. The ethics of vaccination / James Colgrove

The ethics of allocating vaccines / Robert I. Field

Influenza vaccination of health care workers / Michael J. Smith.

Organ Transplantation. Organ transplantation: the challenge of scarcity / Arthur L. Caplan

The importance of embodiment in transplant ethics / Nora L. Jones

Organ trafficking and transplant tourism / Debra A. Budiani-Saberi

Ethical dilemmas in the management of the potential organ donor after circulatory determination of death / Scott D. Halpern

Protecting live kidney and liver donors / Peter P. Reese, Peter L. Abt, and Roy D. Bloom

Organ transplantation and retransplantation: medical and ethical considerations / Raluca Vrabie, Vardit Ravitsky, and Thoman W. Faust.

End of Life. Advance directives / Stephen S. Hanson and David J. Doukas

Medical futility / Horace M. DeLisser

Hospice: past, future, and ethical considerations / Amy M. Corcoran and Jennifer M. Kapo

Palliative care / Debra Wiegand.