Medical Ethics

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1. Introduction
2. Chapter 1: Should Physicians Ever Hasten Patients’ Deaths?
   1. Prolonging Life and Death: An Overview
   2. Physicians Should Not Provide Futile Treatment
   3. Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics
   4. Physicians Should Be Permitted to Assist in Suicide
   5. Physicians Should Not Withhold Lifesaving Treatments
   6. Physician-Assisted Suicide Violates Medical Ethics
   7. Physicians Should Not Be Permitted to Assist in Suicide
   8. Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics
   9. Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics
3. Chapter 2: What Ethics Should Guide Organ Transplants?
   1. The Ethics of Organ Transplants: An Overview
   2. Animal-to-Human Transplants Could Save Lives
   3. Animal-to-Human Transplants Are Dangerous and Unethical
   4. Commerce in Organs Is Ethical
   5. Commerce in Organs Is Unethical
   6. Commerce in Organs Could Save Lives
   7. Commerce in Organs Has Led to Human Rights Violations
4. Chapter 3: Are Reproductive Technologies Ethical?
   1. Reproductive Technologies: An Overview
   2. Reproductive Technologies Are a Valid Medical Treatment
   3. Reproductive Technologies Can Be Consistent with Christian Beliefs
   4. Multiple Births Are an Acceptable Consequence of Assisted Reproduction
   5. Cloning Can Be an Acceptable Means of Reproduction
   6. Reproductive Technologies Are Morally Problematic
   7. Some Reproductive Technologies Violate Christian Beliefs
   8. Multiple Births Are a Harmful Consequence of Assisted Reproduction
   9. Cloning Is Not an Acceptable Means of Reproduction
5. Chapter 4: What Ethics Should Guide Biomedical Research?
   1. Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning: An Overview
   2. Research on Human Embryos Is Unethical
   3. Research on Human Embryos Can Be Ethical
   4. Research into Human Cloning Should Be Banned
   5. Research into Human Cloning Should Not Be Banned
6. Organizations to Contact
7. Bibliography
8. Copyright