The physician as a moral force in American history

John Duffy

3-21

The physician as moral arbiter

Samuel Gorovitz

23-31

Moral issues relating to the economics of new knowledge in the biomedical sciences

Nicholas Rescher

35-45

Only the best is good enough?

Richard Zaner

47-52

Morality and the social control of biomedical technology

Tom L. Beauchamp

55-76

Rights and responsibilities in medical science

Bernard Towers

77-85

Health, justice, and responsibility

Mary Rawlinson

87-102

The need to know

utilitarian and esthetic values of biomedical science

Gerald Weissmann

105-112

Medical knowledge as a social product

rights, risks, and responsibilities

Mark W. Wartofsky

113-130

Biomedical knowledge

progress and priorities

Kenneth F. Schaffner

131-151

Applying morality to advances in biomedicine

can and should this be done?

Arthur Caplan

155-168

Biomedicine, health care policy, and the adequacy of ethical theory

Laurence Mccullough

169-175

Why new technology is more problematic than old technology

Tristram Engelhardt

179-183

The uses of biomedical knowledge

the end of the era of optimism?

Ross Kessel

185-191

The best is yet to come

Mary A. Gardell Cutter

193-197

Scientific advance, technological development, and society

William B. Bondeson

199-203

The life-world and the patient's expectations of new knowledge

Stuart Spicker

205-215

Epilogue

Tristram Engelhardt

217-220