1. Human value development -- 2. Decision making in value issues -- 3. Basic principles of health care ethics -- 4. Autonomy vs paternalism: a contest between virtues -- 5. Confidentiality and the management of health care information -- 6. Aids and health care practice -- 7. Withholding and withdrawing life support -- 8. Euthanasia: practice and principles -- 9 . Abortion -- 10. Ethical issues and genetic science -- 11. Justice and the allocation of scarce resources -- 12. Professional gatekeeping as a function of role fidelity -- Appendix