Values in health and illness -- The nurse and moral authority -- Moral integrity and moral distress -- Benefiting the patient and others : the duty to produce good and avoid harm -- Justice : the allocation of health resources -- Respect -- The principle of autonomy -- Veracity -- Fidelity -- The sanctity of human life -- Abortion, contraception, and sterilization -- Genetics, birth, and the biological revolution -- Psychiatry and the control of human behavior -- HIV/AIDS care -- Experimentation on human beings -- Consent and the right to refuse treatment -- Death and dying.