TY - JOUR T1 - Primer for Health Care Ethics: Essays for a Pluralistic Society, 2nd edn. JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 278 LP - 278 DO - 10.1136/jme.28.4.278 VL - 28 IS - 4 AU - D B Forrester Y1 - 2002/08/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/28/4/278.1.abstract N2 - This is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a book originally published in 1994. It consists of a series of clear and thoughtful short essays, grounded in real cases in health care ethics. The range of coverage is extensive—from informed consent, through futile therapy, genetic testing, organ donation, the use of fetal tissue in research, physician assisted suicide, and many other issues, to early delivery of anencephalic infants. The discussions of individual cases, although necessarily brief, are always clear and well informed, and in general lay out the ethical issues and the various options fairly rather than being strongly directive, partisan, or one-sided.The book … ER -