Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Part one: personal reflections about film and ethics -- 1 Frankenstein and the birth of medical ethics -- 2 A personal journey using film to teach medical ethics -- 3 Movies help us explore relational ethics in health care -- 4 Visions of reality, sometimes larger than life -- Part two: autonomy, justice, and informed consent -- 1 Making autonomous decisions: MILLION DOLLAR BABY -- 2 Informed consent: EXTREME MEASURES -- 3 The ethics of self-determination: THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY -- 4 Paternalism and beneficence: DARK VICTORY -- 5 Consent, competence, and capacity: A BEAUTIFUL MIND -- 6 The challenge of personhood: LORENZO'S OIL -- 7 The clinician's role in addressing social ills: VERA DRAKE -- 8 Research and racism: MISS EVERS' BOYS -- 9 Justice, autonomy, and transhumanism: YESTERDAY -- 10 Another kind of DNR: TITICUT FOLLIES -- Part three: professionalism -- 1 The bounds of physicians' authority: DR. KILDARE'S STRANGE CASE -- 2 Medical narcissism: MALICE -- 3 Disclosure of harmful medical errors: THE VERDICT -- 4 Abandonment: MR. JONES -- 5 Privacy and confidentiality: 21 GRAMS -- 6 God at the bedside: SHADOWLANDS -- 7 Conflict of interest, the physician and big pharma: THE FUGITIVE -- 8 The impaired physician: DRUNKS -- 9 The boundaries of physician relationships: PEOPLE WILL TALK -- 10 Cross-cultural issues and medical decision-making: WORLDS APART -- Part four: communication and provider-patient relationships -- 1 The deleterious effects of insensitivity: RANGE OF MOTION -- 2 Interprofessional relationships: THE HOSPITAL -- 3 "difficult" patients?: PASSION FISH -- 4 Challenges faced by informal caregivers: THE HOURS -- 5 Benevolent deception: SEND ME NO FLOWERS.

6 Team dynamics and ethics of responsibility: WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? AND BRINGING OUT THE DEAD -- 7 Professional boundaries: WAITRESS -- 8 Integrity and boundary setting: ANTWONE FISHER -- 9 Respect for persons: THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU -- 10 Speaking truth to power: PAN'S LABYRINTH -- Part five: health care policy and social responsibility -- 1 Individual rights versus the public interest: OUTBREAK -- 2 Consumer awareness: THE RAINMAKER -- 3 The psychological ethics of the whistleblower: THE INSIDER -- 4 The ethics of withholding care: AS GOOD AS IT GETS -- 5 Racial and sexual identity in health care and research: PHILADELPHIA -- 6 Social needs of persons with disabilities: THE WATERDANCE -- 7 Institutional power: ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST -- 8 Ethical conflicts of a complex humanitarian emergency: THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND -- 9 The physician's obligation to speak out against oppression: THE LIVES OF OTHERS -- 10 Conflicts of consultation: RED BEARD -- Part six: rights, responsibilities, and research -- 1 Rights to access health care: ARTICLE 99 -- 2 Rights to health care information: AND THE BAND PLAYED ON -- 3 Gender discrimination in medicine: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD -- 4 The use of experimental therapies: AWAKENINGS -- 5 Subject participation in research: FRANKENSTEIN -- 6 Power and patient/subject exploitation: THE ELEPHANT MAN -- 7 The ethics of international research: THE CONSTANT GARDENER -- 8 State intervention in parental decision making: GONE BABY GONE -- 9 Physician participation in torture and interrogation: IRON JAWED ANGELS -- 10 Rights of prisoners: THE LIVES OF OTHERS -- Part seven: reproduction, genetics, and sexuality -- 1 Artificial insemination: AND THEN CAME LOVE -- 2 Abortion: IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK -- 3 Enhancement technologies: THE INCREDIBLES -- 4 Emerging technologies: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

5 Human genetic engineering: GATTACA -- 6 Reproductive cloning: MULTIPLICITY -- 7 Therapeutic cloning: THE 6TH DAY -- 8 Transgender/transsexual health care: SOUTHERN COMFORT -- 9 Coming of age with intersex: XXY -- 10 Women's rights: A PRIVATE MATTER -- Part eight: end of life and right to die -- 1 Advance directives and living wills: AUTUMN IN NEW YORK -- 2 Brain death: STEEL MAGNOLIAS -- 3 Care of the dying: THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS -- 4 Physician assisted suicide: DEATH ON REQUEST -- 5 Do not resuscitate orders: WIT -- 6 The rule of double effect: TWO WEEKS -- 7 Euthanasia: THE ENGLISH PATIENT -- 8 Futility: MY LIFE -- 9 Professional roles and communication in end-of-life care: MAGNOLIA -- 10 Suicide: MAR ADENTRO (THE SEA INSIDE) -- Part nine: other ethical issues in medical specialties -- 1 Medicine and religion: WILD STRAWBERRIES -- 2 Teenage sexuality, ethics, and law: KIDS -- 3 Personhood and the ethics of dementia: IRIS -- 4 The patient-physician journey to diagnosis: GO NOW -- 5 Futility of care: MY LIFE WITHOUT ME -- 6 Futility in the nicu: MY LIFE WITHOUT ME -- 7 Organ trafficking and happiness: DIRTY PRETTY THINGS -- 8 Organ transplantation and health disparities: JOHN Q -- 9 Life-prolonging treatment in minors: LORENZO'S OIL -- 10 Family care-giving and the ethics of responsibility: MARVIN'S ROOM -- Filmography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.