Introduces biomedical ethics with objective overviews, primary source quotes, and illustrated facts and statistics.

Foreword -- Biomedical ethics at a glance -- Overview: questions of morality in a technological age -- Is physician-assisted suicide ethical? -- Are some kinds of genetic testing unethical? -- Should human embryos be used in stem cell research? -- Should human cloning be banned? -- Key people and advocacy groups -- Chronology -- Related organizations -- For further research -- Source notes -- List of illustrations -- Index -- About the author.