Vol. 28 No. 2, September 2012
Index
- Preface.
- (Introduction to the book and Part one: in defense of medicine).
- Chapter I. Bioethics versus medicine.
- Chapter II: on the ethics of physicians.
- Chapter III: the attack on medicine.
- Chapter IV: the responsibility and the morale of physicians.
- Chapter V: the motivation of physicians.
- Chapter VI: speaking the truth.
- Chapter VII: the medical mind.
- Chapter VIII: more on the medical mind.
- Chapter IX: on therapy.
- Chapter X: the traditional clinician.
- Chapter XI: what is happening to physicians' manners and morals?
- Chapter XII: the lost skills, the bad habits.
- Chapter XIII: farewell to clinical medicine?
- Chapter XIV: nurses misled.
- Chapter XV: is medicine still for the patient?
- Chapter XVI: in defense of medicine.
- (Introduction to Part two: medicine versus euthanasia).
- Chapter XVII: do we treat all patients, or may we refuse to help some of them?
- Chapter XVIII: biological cleansing at the beginning of life.
- Chapter XIX: crypthanasia.
- Chapter XX: Dutch government-ordered surveys of euthanasia.
- Chapter XXI: the philosophy of euthanasia.
- Chapter XXII: utilitarianism of Bentham-Mill-Singer and the philosophy of euthanasia.
- Chapter XXIII: doctors who practice euthanasia.
- Chapter XXIV: at the bottom.
- Chapter XXV: the Hippocratic physician and the changing world.
- Chapter XXVI: staying to the very end at the patient's side.
- Chapter XXVII: death in the gray zone.
- Chapter XXVIII: American assisted suicide.
- Chapter XXIX: the shaping of public opinion.
- Chapter XXX: the society that has embraced euthanasia.
- Chapter XXXI: who is leading us there?
- Chapter XXXII: toward a killing society.
- Appendix 1: Nazi euthanasia.
- Appendix 2: voices from Mensa.