In this book the author integrates descriptions of some of the most famous bioethics cases and their issues.

Editions 1-5 published under: Classic cases in medical ethics.

1. Ethical reasoning, moral theories, principles, and bioethics -- 2. Requests to die: non-terminal patients -- 3. Requests to die: terminal patients -- 4. Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terri Schiavo -- 5. Abortion: the trial of Kenneth Edelin -- 6. Assisted reproduction, multiple births, and elderly parents -- 7. Embryos, stem cells, and cloning -- 8. The ethics of treating impaired babies -- 9. Medical research on animals -- 10. Medical research on vulnerable human subjects -- 11. Surgeons' desire for fame: ethics of the first transplants -- 12. Just distribution of organs: God committee and personal responsibility -- 13. Using one baby for another: babies Fae, Gabriel, and Theresa and conjoined twins -- 14. Ethical issues of intersex and transgender persons -- 15. Involuntary psychiatric commitment: the case of Joyce Brown -- 16. Ethical issues in testing for genetic disease -- 17. Ethical issues in stopping the global spread of AIDS -- 18. Ethical issues with the Affordable Care Act -- 19. Ethical issues in medical enhancement.