Bibliogr.

The Hastings Center and the early years of bioethics -- A memoir of an interdisciplinary career -- Minimalist ethics -- Individual good and common good -- The WHO definition of health -- End-of-life care : a management or philosophical problem? -- Death, mourning, and medical progress -- Terminating life-sustaining treatment for the demented -- Killing and allowing to die : why it is a mistake to derive an 'is' from an 'ought' -- Rationing : theory, passion, and politics -- Consumer-directed health care : promise or puffery? -- Social allocation of resources for patients with ESDR -- Shaping biomedical research : the case of NIH -- Time for a change : planning our medical future -- Too much of a good thing : how splendid technologies can go wrong -- Demythologizing the stem cell juggernaut -- Health technology assessment implementation : the politics of ethics -- Bioethics and fatherhood.