Faculty Bibliography

David Arnot, a judge in the Provincial Court in North Battleford, Sask., faced a difficult decision. Should the parents of a young girl be allowed to refuse to consent to the only medical intervention capable of saving her life? He ruled that Francois and Leslie Paulette had the right to refuse permission for a liver transplant to be performed on their daughter, K'aila

The judge seemed genuinely puzzled at the fact that the Oakland County, Mich., prosecutor's office sought to indict [Jack Kevorkian] for murder. If [Janet Adkins] committed suicide using Kevorkian's machine, then how could the doctor be guilty of murder?

Manipulating sperm, eggs and embryos takes us about as close as we can get to controlling our destiny. But the current crop of reproductive techniques - artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, embryo transfer, frozen embryos, gamete interfallopian transfer, embryo biopsy - leaves us capable of little more than scratching our collective moral head as we decide how those advances should be used, who should have access to them and how we should readjust our notions of parenthood and family