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This volume focuses on issues involving the inviolability of the
human body and the decision to end life. The contributors explore
the difficulties in framing a public policy that legalizes aid in
dying, and return to the more general question of what is the most
fair and effective relationship between private medical authority
and public policy. In Part 1, biologists, ethicists, theologians
and political scientists examine the issue of whether there ought
to be limits to medical intervention. Although medicine has
continually stretched the boundaries of intervention in the human
body, new technologies of organ transplantation and genetics and
the emergence of revolutionary drugs raise ethical concerns over
how far we should go in moving from therapeutics to enhancement of
the human body. Questions of inviolability also arise in situations
where treatment of the foetus requires intrusion into the bodily
integrity of the pregnant woman. The contributors debate what is
meant by inviolability and where, if ever, it should be a matter of
public policy. Part 2 brings together authors from bioethics,
medicine, psychology, journalism and politics to examine the
intensifying debate over the empowerment of patients in making
decisions to end life.
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