The birth of Siamese twins joined at the chest (thoracopagus twins) and sharing a heart creates an ethical dilemma. Infants with conjoined hearts survive no more than a few months, and physicians must decide whether to ...

Annas applauds the reversal on appeal of three court decisions in which trial court judges sided with hospitals that refused to accede to the wishes of nonterminally ill patients to reject life-sustaining treatment. ...

Annas discusses three 1987 New Jersey Supreme Court cases in which the court decided that life-sustaining treatment could be terminated either because this was what the patient clearly wanted (

The case of Baby Gabriel--a Canadian anencephalic newborn whose heart was transplanted posthumously into an infant at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California after his parents chose to proceed with his birth ...