Moral distress is prevalent in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), where decisions
regarding end-of-life care, periviable resuscitation, and medical futility are common. Due to …

The economic significance of a patent depends on its scope: the broader the scope, the
larger the number of competing products and processes that will infringe the patent. Many …

In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic
debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Murray N. Rothbard's …

The volumes discuss the proof and disproof of criminal law defenses and the alternative
consequences of a successful defense. They set out an overall conceptual framework within …

W 0OMEN in the United States began their long struggle for re-productive freedom with the
birth control movement of the mid-nineteenth century.'The United States Supreme Court's …

It is now a little more than a decade since the Quinlan decision [1]. The issue of terminating
medical treatments to patients, especially incompetent patients, is, in many ways, more …

Originally published in 1981 and then as a second edition, revised and updated in 1983 and
now with a new Preface by Ian Kennedy, this is a hard-hitting and penetrating investigation …

Closely examine the major areas of ethical theory as well as a broad range of contemporary
moral debates using MacKinnon's acclaimed ETHICS: THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY …

The Right to Die, Third Edition analyzes the statutory and case law surrounding the profound
issues of end-of-life decisionmaking. Whether the situation calls for long-term planning or …

Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and novelists such as Walker Percy, Paul
Auster and Graham Greene, A Philosophical Disease brings to the bioethical discussion …