Issues in medical ethics

1. Ethical decision-making in the medical context.

2. Abortion.

3. Assisted reproduction.

4. Caring for compromised newborns.

5. Applications of genetic science.

6. Fetal tisue: research and transplants.

7. Artificially provided nutrition and hydration.

8. HIV/AIDS.

9. Experimentation in medicine.

10. Organ retrieval and transplantation.

11. Advance directives.

12. Euthanasia.

13. Important distinctions.

14. Paternalism and autonomy.

15. Professionalism in health care occupations.

16. Roles of the courts, government and professional societies in biomedical ethics.

17. Providing health care in the United States.