Part I : Conceptual issues
On the distinction between disease and illness / Christopher Boorse
Human being : the boundaries of the concept / Lawrence C. Becker
Brain death and personal identity / Michael B. Green & Daniel Wikler
Part II : Health and social policy
Health-care needs and distributive justice / Norman Daniels
Medical progress and national health care / Loren E. Lomasky
Gifts and exchanges / Kenneth J. Arrow
Altrusim and commerce / Peter Singer
The recombinant DNA debate / Stephen P. Stich
An alternative policy for obtaining cadaver organs for transplantation / James L Muyskens
Part III : Medical paternalism
Paternalistic behavior / Bernard Gert & Charles M. Culver
Medical paternalism / Allen Buchanan
The contractual argument for witholding medical information / Donald Vandeveer
Voluntary euthansia and the inalienable right to life / Joel Feinberg
Euthanasia / Philippa Foot.