Contents

1. Rights, life and costs, 6
2. Abortion, 14
3. Fertility treatment, 26
4. Transplantation, 40
5. Rationing health care, 44
6. Dying well, 50

Glossary, 60
Index, 62

INDEX

Abortion 6,8, 14-25
Adoption 22, 34, 37
AID 28-29, 31
AIDS 10, 44
Angina 46
Angioplasty 47-49
Animals 19, 43
Atherosclerosis 47

Bible 20, 31
Buddhism 20, 51

Cadavers 40
Catholic Church 20, 37, 55
Cloning 37-38
Contraception 14, 25

Death and dying 50-59
Designer babies 38-39
Dialysis 6, 40
Disabilities 23-24
Dolly the sheep 37-38, 43
Double effect 54-55
Down’s syndrome 23-24

Egg and embryo donation 30
Embryos 17-18, 37, 43
Euthanasia 54-59

Fathers 22, 28, 35
Fertility treatment 26-39
Foetus 6, 8, 16-22, 24-25

Gametes 26-38
Genetics 38-39
Genocide 7, 8

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority 36
HIV see AIDS
Homosexuality 35-36

ICSI 26
Infant mortality 13
International aid 10
IVF 26-28, 30-33, 35, 37

Jehovah’s Witnesses 52
Judaism 20, 51

Kidney failure 40-43

Law 15-17, 33, 36, 52-59
Lifestyle 6, 46-49, 55
Living wills 53
Locked-in-syndrome 51, 54

Murder 7, 56-57

Nazis 7, 9, 59
Netherlands 56

Organ donors 41-42
Organ sale 42

Permanent vegetative state 53
Pollution 7
Poverty 11, 24
Premature babies 16

Rationing 44-49
Religion 20-22, 31, 37, 51, 55-56, 59
Resuscitation 51-52

Smoking 35, 47-49
Spare embryos 37
Sterilisation 15
Strokes 6, 50
Suicide 57-58
Surrogacy 31-36

Transplantation 40-43

United Nations 8, 9

Xenotransplantation 43