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Medical Ethics

Small Wonders
Dramatic breakthroughs in reproductive technology are creating miracle babies—and raising tough ethical issues.
byPhyllis L. Fagell

Whose Death Is It, Anyway?
Do patients have the right to decide when their time is up?
byPeter M. Patricelli

The Machine in the Garden
An increasingly sticky bureaucracy often paralyzes doctors as they
struggle to preserve their healing role.
by Christopher Crenner

The Doctor’s Dilemma
Ethical quandaries can leave the best-trained physicians struggling for answers.
by David Steinberg

Slicing the Pie
When limited health care resources must be divided, patients often reveal their sense of fairness.
by James E. Sabin

Beyond Jack Kevorkian
Now that the doctor most associated with physician-assisted suicide has a prison record, can the debate continue in a more reasoned way?

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