Preface v
Acknowledgments ix
Table of Cases xxix
Introduction 1 (1)
Law and Real Life: Being Sick 1 (4)
Bioethics: Ethical Principles, Regulatory Strategies 5 (22)
The Principle of Autonomy: The Example of Informed Consent 27 (163)
The Doctrine of Informed Consent 27 (43)
Vindicating Patients' Autonomy 70 (31)
Patients' Autonomy and Patients' Health 101 (21)
Is Informed Consent Effective? Regulating Medical Practice 122 (24)
Thinking About Themes: Individual Autonomy and Social Regulation 146 (4)
Doctor and Patient in Context: The Problem of Confidentiality 150 (40)
The Principle of Autonomy: Law at the End of Life 190 (136)
Defining 193 (26)
Stopping 219 (55)
Planning 274 (52)
Killing 326 (141)
An Introductory Problem: The Case of Diane 326 (15)
Assisted Suicide as a Crime 341 (8)
Assisted Suicide as a Right 349 (118)
Deciding for Others: Autonomy or Beneficence? 467 (178)
Competence: Its Meaning and Determination 467 (18)
Formerly Competent Patients: Who Should Decide? What Standards Should Govern? 485 (63)
Patients With Future Competence: Making Medical Decisions for Children 548 (60)
Patients Without Former Or Future Competence 608 (8)
The Participation of Mentally Incapacitated Patients in Medical Research 616 (26)
Dispute Resolution Procedures 642 (3)
The Body as Commodity 645 (94)
Introduction: The Body as an Object of Exchange 645 (4)
My Body, My Property? 649 (20)
Transferring The Body 669 (21)
Increasing the Supply of Organs for Transplantation 690 (35)
Sperm, Ova, Gestational Services, and Sex 725 (14)
Reproduction and Birth 739 (146)
Maternal-Fetal Conflict 739 (61)
Choosing Our Children 800 (25)
Technological Conception 825 (60)
Autonomy in a Bureaucratic World 885
Allocating Medical Resources: Who Should Decide? What Criteria Should We Use? 885
The Patient in the Bureaucracy: Ethics, Managed Care, And the Tools of Regulation
Acknowledgments ix
Table of Cases xxix
Introduction 1 (1)
Law and Real Life: Being Sick 1 (4)
Bioethics: Ethical Principles, Regulatory Strategies 5 (22)
The Principle of Autonomy: The Example of Informed Consent 27 (163)
The Doctrine of Informed Consent 27 (43)
Vindicating Patients' Autonomy 70 (31)
Patients' Autonomy and Patients' Health 101 (21)
Is Informed Consent Effective? Regulating Medical Practice 122 (24)
Thinking About Themes: Individual Autonomy and Social Regulation 146 (4)
Doctor and Patient in Context: The Problem of Confidentiality 150 (40)
The Principle of Autonomy: Law at the End of Life 190 (136)
Defining 193 (26)
Stopping 219 (55)
Planning 274 (52)
Killing 326 (141)
An Introductory Problem: The Case of Diane 326 (15)
Assisted Suicide as a Crime 341 (8)
Assisted Suicide as a Right 349 (118)
Deciding for Others: Autonomy or Beneficence? 467 (178)
Competence: Its Meaning and Determination 467 (18)
Formerly Competent Patients: Who Should Decide? What Standards Should Govern? 485 (63)
Patients With Future Competence: Making Medical Decisions for Children 548 (60)
Patients Without Former Or Future Competence 608 (8)
The Participation of Mentally Incapacitated Patients in Medical Research 616 (26)
Dispute Resolution Procedures 642 (3)
The Body as Commodity 645 (94)
Introduction: The Body as an Object of Exchange 645 (4)
My Body, My Property? 649 (20)
Transferring The Body 669 (21)
Increasing the Supply of Organs for Transplantation 690 (35)
Sperm, Ova, Gestational Services, and Sex 725 (14)
Reproduction and Birth 739 (146)
Maternal-Fetal Conflict 739 (61)
Choosing Our Children 800 (25)
Technological Conception 825 (60)
Autonomy in a Bureaucratic World 885
Allocating Medical Resources: Who Should Decide? What Criteria Should We Use? 885
The Patient in the Bureaucracy: Ethics, Managed Care, And the Tools of Regulation