Chapter 1: What Are Medical Ethics?

Chapter 2: Morality in Medicine

Chapter 3: The Provider-Patient Relationship

Chapter 4: Outside the Examining Room: Running an Ethical Practice

Chapter 5: Learning from Mistakes: Disclosing Medical Errors

Chapter 6: The Ethical Challenges in Distributing Basic Healthcare

Chapter 7: When Spirituality and Cultural Beliefs Affect Care

Chapter 8: Parental Guidance and Responsibilities

Chapter 9: Two Lives, One Patient: Pregnancy Rights and Issues

Chapter 10: When Science Supersedes Sex: Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy

Chapter 11: Walking a Fine Line: Examining the Ethics of Abortion

Chapter 12: Determining Death: Not an Event, but a Process

Chapter 13: Death with Dignity: The Right to Appropriate End-of-Life Care

Chapter 14: Toward Trials without Error: The Evolution of Ethics in Clinical Research

Chapter 15: Beyond Guinea Pigs: Anatomy of an Ethical Clinical Trial

Chapter 16: Research in Special Populations

Chapter 17: It’s All in the Genes: The Ethics of Stem Cell and Genetic Research