Abstract: Introduction – Methods in Bioethics – The Way We Reason Now: Reflective Equilibrium in Bioethics – Autonomy – Mental Disorder, Moral Agency, and the Self – ‘Reinventing’ the Rule of Double Effect – Policy-Making in Pluralistic Societies – Tiers Without Tears: the Ethics of a Two-Tier Health Care System – Justice and the Elderly – Organ Transplantation – Biobanking – For Dignity or Money: Feminists on the Commodification of Women's Reproductive Labour – The Definition of Death – The Aging Society and the Expansion of Senility: Biotechnological and Treatment Goals – Death is a Punch in the Jaw: Life-Extension and its Discontents – Precedent Autonomy, Advance Directives, and End-of-Life Care – Physician-Assisted Death: the State of the Debate – Abortion Revisited – Moral Status, Moral Value, and Human Embryos: Implications for Stem Cell Research – Therapeutic Cloning: Politics and Policy – Population Genetic Research and Screening: Conceptual and Ethical Issues – Enhancement – Genetic Interventions and The Ethics of Enhancement of Human Beings – Pharmacogenomics: Ethical and Regulatory Issues – Clinical Equipoise: Foundational Requirement or Fundamental Error? – Research on Cognitively Impaired Adults – Research in Developing Countries – Animal Experimentation – The Implications of Public Health for Bioethics – Global Health – Bioethics and Bioterrorism

Keywords: abortion, concept, death, definition, ethics, experiment, implication, life, method, moral status, population, reason, reflective equilibrium, self, society, value, human beings, justice, State