Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: OVERVIEW OF RURALITY AND GENERAL ETHICAL ISSUES -- 1 Rural-Urban Differences in End-of-Life Care: Reflections on Social Contracts -- 2 The Challenges of Rural Health Care -- 3 Ethics, Errors, and Where We Go from Here -- 4 The Ethics of Allocating Resources toward Rural Health and Health Care -- PART II: PRACTITIONERS' VOICES -- 5 Reflections on Fifty Years in Rural Health Care -- 6 Serving the Underserved: Personal, Social, and Medical Challenges -- 7 Ethical and Sociocultural Issues in Rural Mental Health Care -- PART III: SPECIFIC ETHICAL ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS -- 8 Ethical Dimensions of the Quality of Rural Health Care -- 9 Building Bioethics Networks in Rural States: Blessings and Barriers -- 10 Structural Violence in the Rural Context: The Ethical Implications of Welfare Reform for Rural Health -- 11 Rural Geriatric Bioethics: A Texas Perspective -- 12 Supporting the Rural Physician: Processes and Programs -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.