BIOETHICS: ISSUES AND DILEMMAS -- BIOETHICS: ISSUES AND DILEMMAS -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 SURGICAL VACCINE: SHOULD MALE CIRCUMCISION BE MANDATORY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA -- Introduction -- Medical Analysis -- Non-Medical Issues Surrounding Mandatory Male Circumcision -- Ethical Analysis -- Guidelines -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 MEDICAL ETHICS IN OBSTETRICS - A FRENCH EXPERIMENT -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Prenatal Diagnosis (PND) in Today's French Obstetrical Practice -- 1. Screening with Ultrasound Images -- 2. Screening with "Numbers": The Case of Trisomy 21 -- PND - The Eugenics Issue -- 1. A Renewed Ethical Question -- 2. Diagnosis or Prenatal Screening? -- 3. Individual Screening or Public Health Policy? -- 4. PND as a Profitable Practice? -- 5. PND: A Method Achieving Greater Results snd Practiced Earlier snd Earlier -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3 THE „REAL WORLD‟ OF ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING: INSIGHTS FROM RESEARCH -- A Hospice Start -- From Hospice to High-Tech Care -- Turning the Focus to Mental Health -- Patient-Centred Care: Acute Medicine Provides Insights for A New Direction -- Dealing with Professional Conflict and Tension - An Ethical Issue -- End-of-Life Issues - The Most Challenging Ethical Issues for Acute Medicine -- Similar Issues in an Emergency Department -- Maintaining the Momentum -- Indigenous Informed Consent -- Ethics in Obstetrics - Informed Consent to Birth Choice -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 THE RIGHTS OF FUTURE GENERATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS -- Abstract -- Historical Notes -- Origins and Development -- Hans Jonas -- The Two Principal Problems -- The Problem of Identity -- The Problemof Temporal Distance -- "Common Heritage" and "Capital" -- General Aspects -- Subject and Object.

"Capital" snd "Human Capital" -- Sustainable Development and the Rights of Future Generations -- Social Aspects -- Individual Contribution -- 'Globalisation' -- The Legal Definition Problem -- Some Answers -- Bryan G. Norton -- Edith Brown Weiss -- Aldo Leopold -- Henri Skolimowski -- John Rawls -- Conclusion -- The Importance and Topicality of the Problem -- Operational Criteria -- On the Relationship between Intergenerational Equity and the Rights of Contemporaries -- On Freedom and on Duty -- References -- Chapter 5 TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO PRINCIPLES OF BIOMEDICAL ETHICS: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF THE THEORIES OF THE AMERICAN ETHICISTS TOM L. BEAUCHAMP AND JAMES F. CHILDRESS AND THE DANISH PHILOSOPHERS JAKOB RENDTORFF AND PETER KEMP -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Four Principles of Biomedical Ethics of Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress -- Prima Facie Binding, Balancing, and Specification -- Justification of the Principles -- Coherence - Not Enough for Justification -- The Common Morality -- Empirical Perspective on the Common Morality -- 3. The Basic Ethical Principles of Jacob Rendtorff and Peter Kemp -- 4. Comparison and Discussion of the Ethical Principles of Beauchamp and Childress and Rendtorff and Kemp -- References -- Chapter 6 OOPHORECTOMY SPECIMENS AS A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF OOCYTES FOR HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH -- Abstract -- Introduction -- I. The Feasibility of Using The Retrieval and In Vitro Maturation of Immature Human Oocytes Taken from Surgically Removed Ovaries for Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer -- A. Retrieval and In Vitro Maturation of Immature Human Oocytes for Clinical Use -- 1. Development of In Vitro Fertilization Combined with In Vitro Maturation -- 2. Methods of Retrieval and In Vitro Maturation of Immature Oocytes for In Vitro Fertilization.

3. Expansion of the Indication of In Vitro Fertilization Combined with In Vitro Maturation Treatment -- 4. The Outcome of In Vitro Fertilization Combined with In Vitro Maturation -- B. Retrieval and In Vitro Maturation of Immature Human Oocytes Taken from Surgically Removed Ovaries for Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer -- 1. Surgically Removed Ovaries as a Potential Source of Oocytes -- 2. How to Retrieve and Mature the Oocytes from Surgically Removed Ovaries -- 3. Optimization of the IVM Method to Support the Efficient and Full Development of Oocytes -- II. Ethical and Legal Considerations -- A. Rationale for Employing Oophorectomy Specimens in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research -- B. Informed Consent Process -- III. Conclusion -- Index.