• Examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resulted from the rapid advances in biomedical technology
• Brings together the leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, to discuss these issues
• Tackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, selling body parts, resourcing and confidentiality
• Organized with a coherent structure that differentiates between the decisions of individuals and those of social policy.

"This volume...offers a rich array of perspectives from which to view the ethics of medicine. With twenty-three articles and a good deal of references for further reading, it will be a helpful tool for navigating the complex literature on the key issues in medical ethics." (Ethical Perspectives)

Rosamond Rhodes is Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate School, CUNY.

Leslie P. Francis is Professor of Philosophy and the Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law, Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, and Adjunct Professor in the Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine.

Anita Silvers is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.