Part 1 Negligence/consent: from informed consent to patient choice - a new protected interest, M.M. Schultz; informed consent to medical treatment, G. Robertson; historical evolution and modern implications of concepts of consent to, and refusal of, medical treatment in the law of trespass, D. Mendelson; medical paternalism, A. Buchanan. Part 2 Reproduction: the morality of abortion, R. Dworkin; abortion law - is consensual reform possible?, S.A.M. McLean; compulsory sterilization and castration, D. Meyers; regulating the reproduction business?, M. Brazier; the maternal-foetal dyad - exploring the two-patient model, S.S. Mattingly; the creation of foetal rights - conflicts with women's constitutional rights to liberty, privacy and equal protection, D. Johnsen; she's going to die - the case of Angela C., G. Annas; unwanted pregnancy - a case of retroversion?, J.K. Mason. Part 3 Human experimentation and research: ethics and clinical research, H. Beecher; an unfortunate experiment, A. Campbell; research and experimentation, I. Kennedy. Part 4 Death and dying: some reflections on the problem of advance directives, personhood and personal identity, H. Kuhse; second thoughts on living wills, J.A. Robertson; after the patient self-determination act - the need for empirical research on advance directives, J. Lynn and J. Teno; decisions at the end of life - guided by communities of patients, L.L. Emanuel and E.J. Emanuel; are advance directives really the answer? and what was the question?, A. Somerville; euthanasia in the Netherlands - sliding down the slippery slope?, J. Keown; assisted suicide in the Netherlands - the Chabot case, J. Griffiths; causing death and saving lives, J. Glover.
