Many of the demands being voiced for a "humanizing" of health care
center on the public's concern that they have some say In
determining what happens to the individual in health care
institutions. The essays in this volume address fundamental
questions of conflicts of rights and autonomy as they affect four
selected, controversial areas in health care ethics: the Limits of
Professional Autonomy, Refusing! Withdrawing from Treatment,
Electing "Heroic" Measures, and Advancing Reproductive Technology.
Each of the topics is addressed in such a way that it includes an
examination of the locus of responsibility for ethical decision
making. The topics are not intended to exhaustively review those
areas of health care provision where conflicts of rights might be
said to be an issue. Rather they constitute an examination of the
difficulties so often encountered in these specific contexts that
we hope will illuminate similar conflicts in other problem areas by
raising the level of the reader's moral awareness. Many books in
bioethics appeal only to a limited audience in spite of the fact
that their subject matter is of deep personal concern to everyone.
In part, this is true because they are frequently written from the
perspective of a single discipline or a single profession. As a
result, one is often left with the impression that such a book
views the philosophical, historical, and! or theological problems
as essentially indifferent to clinical, legal, and! or
policy-making problems.
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