Karen Quinlan -- Elizabeth Bouvia and voluntary death -- Mercy killing in Holland -- Baby Louise Brown's in vitro fertilization -- The Baby M case -- Abortion and the trial of Kenneth Edelin -- The Baby Jane Doe case -- The Philadelphia head-injury studies on primates -- The Tuskegee syphilis study -- Christiaan Barnard's first heart transplant -- Barney Clark's artificial heart -- Baby Fae -- Mayor Koch, Joyce Brown, and involuntary psychiatric commitment -- Preventing undesirable teenage pregnancies -- Nancy Wexler and genetic markers -- Mandatory testing for AIDS. rnIncludes bibliographical references (pages 348-373).