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Bioethics as a Discipline.- I: Abortion.- Roe v. Wade.- Abortion and the Law.- A Defense of Abortion.- The Morality of Abortion.- Abortion: The Avoidable Moral Dilemma.- II: Mental Illness.- Psychiatric Intervention.- The Myth of Mental Illness.- Mental Health and Mental Illness: Some Problems of Definition and Concept Formation.- Involuntary Mental Hospitalization: A Crime Against Humanity.- Psychiatrists and the Adversary Process.- III: Human Experimentation.- Ethics and Clinical Research.- Scientific Investigations on Man: A Medical Research Worker’s Viewpoint.- Philosophical Reflections on Experimenting with Human Subjects.- The Moral Justification for Research Using Human Subjects.- Realities of Patient Consent to Medical Research.- NIH Guidelines on Research with Human Subjects.- IV: Human Genetics.- Ethical Issues Arising from the Possible Uses of Genetic Knowledge.- Implications of Prenatal Diagnosis for the Human Right to Life.- Implications of Prenatal Diagnosis for the Quality of, and Right to, Human Life: Society as a Standard.- Practical and Ethical Problems in Human Genetics.- Reproductive Rights and Genetic Disease.- On Justifications for Coercive Genetic Control.- Legal Rights and Moral Rights.- Privacy and Genetic Information.- V: Dying.- The Problems in Prolongation of Life.- The Allocation of Exotic Medical Lifesaving Therapy.- Life and the Right to Life.- Dying.- A Statutory Definition of the Standards for Determining Human Death: An Appraisal and a Proposal.- Death: Process or Event?.