1. The evolution of medical ethics -- 2. A reform of sex law? -- 3. The management of infertility and childlessness -- 4. The control of fertility -- 5. Abortion -- 6. Prenatal screening and wrongful life -- 7. Neonaticide and selective non-treatment of the newborn -- 8. Medical confidentiality -- 9. Consent to treatment -- 10. Medical negligence -- 11. Health resources and dilemmas in treatment -- 12. Treatment of the aged -- 13. The diagnosis of death -- 14. The donation of organs and transplantation -- 15. Euthanasia -- 16. Biomedical human experimentation -- 17. Research on children and fetal experimentation -- 18. Human rights, psychiatry and the law -- 19. Psychiatry and the criminal law