Ch. 1. About clinical ethics -- Ch. 2. A theory of clinical ethics -- Ch. 3. Evaluating common distinctions -- Ch. 4. Clinical ethics throughout the life span -- Ch. 5. Assessing the standard theory -- Ch. 6. Strategy for a clinical ethics assessment -- Ch. 7. Cases -- Case 1 : A religious objection to a blood transfusion -- Case 2 : Determining if a patient has decisional capacity -- Case 3 : Urgent surgery in a stuporous patient : the use and limitations of advance directives -- Case 4 : Management of life-threatening illness : an intensive care unit patient with uncertain decisional capacity -- Case 5 : "Don't Tell Mother" : withholding information from a patient -- Case 6 : Alternative medicine for a patient with advanced cancer -- Case 7 : Painful treatment for a severely retarded man -- Case 8 : Withdrawing mechanical ventilation at the request of a patient with decisional capacity -- Case 9 : Withholding tube feeding in a woman with advanced dementia -- Case 10 : A religious objection to the determination of brain death -- Case 11 : A teenager with prolonged unconsciousness -- Case 12 : Resuscitation decision in a patient with lung cancer -- Case 13 : Dispute over DNR status in a patient who wants palliative surgery -- Case 14 : Suicide risk in a managed care patient -- Case 15 : Assisted suicide in a man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Case 16 : A married man contracts syphilis -- Case 17 : A house-bound woman with tuberculosis -- Case 18 : Surgical delay in a patient infected with HIV -- Case 19 : An elderly driver -- Case 20 : A difficult patient and the limits of provider obligations -- Case 21 : "Do Everything" : physician obligations in the face of family demands -- Case 22 : A man with alcoholic cirrhosis wants a liver transplant -- Case 23 : Genetic testing in a woman with a family history of breast cancer -- Case 24 : Assisted reproduction in a woman with strong religious beliefs -- Case 25 : Prenatal counseling of a pregnant woman at risk for HIV infection -- Case 26 : A pregnant woman using cocaine -- Case 27 : Tracheoesophageal fistula in a newborn with Down Syndrome -- Case 28 : Determination of death in a newborn -- Case 29 : A religious objection to a child's medical treatment -- Case 30 : A teenager who wants cosmetic surgery -- Case 31 : An adolescent with cancer who wants to discontinue medical treatment.
