Suppose you have two patients, one who needs a new kidney and one who needs a new
heart. Both are urgent requirements but donors cannot be found. Do you face a pressing …

Jeremy Bentham, protesting against the cruelty of inflicting the death penalty on mothers
who kill their newborn infants, described infanticide as the killing of a being 'who has ceased …

The aim of this essay is to show that there are no easy options for those who are disturbed
by the suggestion that infanticide may on occasion be morally permissible. The belief that …

The publication of this book is encouraging fora number ofreasons. It is a major contribution
to medical ethics and its length, depth and thoroughness all bear witness both to the …

Issues like abortion, AIDS, test-tube babies, conscience, euthanasia, etc, are increasingly
becoming issues of public debate, and lay person and professional alike are expected to …

Gina Bari Kolata concludes her article (" The Death of a Research Subject," Hastings Center
Report, August 1980, pp. 5-6) with the solemn assertion," And indeed Gillcrist's death is a …

In 'After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?', Giubilini and Minerva argue that
infanticide should be permitted for the same reasons as abortion. In particular, they argue …

If one talked just with ordinary competent, hard-working and caring doctors, who are in the
great majority, one would think that medical ethics is in good shape. They have a fairly …

This article attempts to isolate several points in ethics which are under stress in its
biomedicai applications. This is meant to be a mild endeavor, not so much arguing issues as …

The second volume in this series was reviewed in the December 1982 number of this
journal. The present volume re-ports the sixth and seventh conferences arranged by the …