1. Truthtelling. Changes in physicians' attitudes toward telling the cancer patient / Dennis H. Novack [and others] --
On telling patients the truth / Mack Lipkin --
Bearing the news / Saul S. Radovsky --
Truthtelling in medicine / Robert F. Weir --
Cobbs v. Grant / Supreme Court of California, 8 Cal. 3d 229, 502 P.2d 1 (1972) --
2. Definition and determination of death. Defining death anew: technical and ethical problems / Robert M. Veatch --
Proposed Uniform Determination of Death Act / President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research --
Guidelines for the determination of death: report of the medical consultants on the diagnosis of death to the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research --
Defining death in theory and practice / James L. Bernat, Charles M. Culver, and Bernard Gert --
Commonwealth v. Golston / Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 373 Mass. 249, 366 N.E.2d 744 (1977) --
3. Selective nontreatment of handicapped newborns. Moral and ethical dilemmas in the special-care nursery / Raymond S. Duff and A.G.M. Campbell --
Passive euthanasia of defective newborn infants: legal considerations / John A. Robertson and Norman Fost --
Selective nontreatment of newborns / Richard Sherlock --
Defective infants and their impact on families: ethical and legal considerations / Carson Strong --
Clinical applications / Robert F. Weir --
United States v. University Hospital of the State University of New York at Stony Brook / U.S. District Court, E.D. New York, 575 F. Supp. 607 (1983) --
4. Treatment abatement with critically ill patients. Physician's responsibility toward hopelessly ill patients / Sidney H. Wanzer [and others] --
Right to refuse treatment: a model act / Legal Advisers Committee of Concern for Dying --
Least worst death / M. Pabst Battin --
Must patients always be given food and water? / Joanne Lynn and James F. Childress --
On feeding the dying / Daniel Callahan --
Satz v. Perlmutter / District Court of Appeal of Florida, 363 So. 2d 160 (1978) --
In the matter of Claire C. Conroy / Supreme Court of New Jersey, 98 N.J. 321, 486 A.2d 1209 (1985) --
5. Euthanasia. Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels --
Killing and letting die / Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress --
Justifying voluntary euthanasia / Peter Singer --
Beneficent euthanasia and benemortasia: alternative views of mercy / Arthur Dyck --
Deciding for yourself: the objections / Daniel Maguire --
People v. Montemarano / Nassau County Court, Mineola, New York (February 5, 1974) --
People v. Gilbert / Broward County Court, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (May 9, 1985) --
6. Suicide. What is suicide? / Tom L. Beauchamp --
Morality and rationality of suicide / Richard B. Brandt --
Suicide and covenant / Karen Lebacoz and H. Tristram Englehardt, Jr. --
Preventing suicide / Edwin S. Shneidman --
Ethics of suicide / Thomas S. Szasz --
Bouvia v. County of Riverside / Riverside Superior Court, No. 159780 (December 16, 1983).
