pt. 1. Health care professionals' responsibilities and patients' rights. Professional conduct -- Informed consent -- Privacy and confidentiality -- pt. 2. Reproductive rights and technologies. Reproductive rights -- Abortion -- pt. 3. Death and dying. Decisions about death -- Refusal of life-sustaining treatment and euthanasia -- pt. 4. Research with living subjects. Consent to research -- Selection of subjects and protection of their welfare -- pt. 5. Decisionmaking capacity. Involuntary treatment -- Decisions on behalf of the incompetent -- pt. 6. Allocation and health care policy. Allocation of scarce resources -- Organ procurement and transplantation -- Health care policy.