pt. I: The nature of applied ethics. Can applied ethics be effective in health care and should it strive to be? -- Moral experts and moral expertise : Does either exist? -- pt. II: Ethical issues in animal and human experimentation. Beastly conduct : ethics issues in animal experimentation -- Moral community and the responsibility of scientists -- On privacy and confidentiality in social science research -- Is there a duty to serve as a subject in biomedical research? -- pt. III: Advances in reproduction and genetics. New technologies in reproduction, new ethical problems -- Mapping morality : ethics and the human genome project -- pt. IV: Transplants and other unnatural acts. Requests, gifts, and obligations : the ethics of organ procurement -- If I were a rich man, could I buy a pancreas? : problems in the policies and criteria used to allocate organs for transplantation in the United States -- Ethical issues raised by research involving xenografts -- pt. V: Aging, chronic illness, and rehabilitation. Is aging a disease? -- Let wisdom find a way : the concept of competency in the care of the elderly -- Is medical care the right prescription for chronic illness? -- Informed consent and provider/patient relationships in rehabilitation medicine -- Can autonomy be saved? -- pt. VI: Money, medicine, and morality. The high cost of technological development : a caveat for policymakers -- Hard data is the only answer to hard choices in health care -- Ethics, cost-containment, and the allocation of scarce resources.