Potter, Van Rensselaer. Global bioethics. Michigan, USA: 1988. 203p. ISBN 0-87013-264-4 QH332 P866g 1988

CONTENTS

FOREWORD, vii

PREFACE, xiii

INTRODUCTION, 1

-Knowledge of Adaptation is Needed for Wisdom

1. THE LEOPOLD LEGACY, 13

-New Perspectives on the Leopold Legacy

-Aldo Leopold's Neglected Legacy

-A Leopold Primer

 2. HUMAN SURVIVAL, 31

-The Cancer Analogy

-Earth as Organism

-The Issue of Survival

-Survival Cannot Be Assumed

-The Meaning of Survival

-Kinds of Survival

3. DILEMMAS IN ECOLOGICAL BIOETHICS, 57

-From Knowledge to Wisdom

-The Dollar Dilemma

4. TWO KINDS OF BIOETHICS, 71

-The Matter of Nomenclature

-Teaching Ethics in Higher Education

-Ethics in a New Phase

-Global Bioethics and the Feminine Viewpoint

 5. DILEMMAS IN MEDICAL BIOETHICS, 95

-Teenage Pregnancy

-Handicapped Newborns

-Organ Transplantation

-Euthanasia

-The Secular Vision

6. THE CONTROL OF HUMAN FERTILITY, 129

-Two Kinds of People

-The San Antonio Connection Clinical Applications: Infertility

-Nonsurgical Methods of Contraception

-Contraceptive Research

-Pregnancy Termination

-Planned Intervention in Population Change

-Fertility-Regulating Methods

-Social & Religious Correlates of Fertility

7. GLOBAL BIOETHICS DEFINED, 151

-Human Health as the Global Bioethics

-Medical Bioethics in Perspective

-Ecological Bioethics in Perspective

Appendix 1, 185

THE LEOPOLD HERITAGE

-The Leopold Family Heritage

-The Leopold Intellectual Heritage

Appendix 2, 193

A BIOETHICAL CREED FOR INDIVIDUALS

INDEX, 197