Unit 1 Text A The Hippocratic Oath
Text B 12 Principles from Christoph Wilhelm von Hufeland
Unit 2 Text A Why Should Human Beings Be Moral?
Text B Ethical Dilemmas in Tissue Engineering and 3D Printing
Unit 3 Text A Patients Have Rights, But Doctors Have Rights, Too
Text B Does the Doctor-Patient Relationship Mean More to Doctors than Patients?
Unit 4 Text A Doctor-Patient Confidentiality
Text B An Assessment of Rights Theory in a Specific Health Care Context
Unit 5 Text A Confidentiality and the Patient’s Right to Privacy—What Right to Privacy in Healthcare?
Text B  When Doctors Pick Up the Pen—Patient-Doctor Confidentiality Breaches in Publishing
Unit 6 Text A Inside the Autistic Mind
Text B Autism Boom: An Epidemic of Disease or of Discovery?
Unit 7 Text A Ethical Issues in the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research
Text B Animal Testing: Is Animal Testing Ethically Correct?
Unit 8 Text A Altruism and Payment in Blood Donation
Text B Blood Safety and Donation: A Global View
Unit 9 Text A Embraced by the Dark Fog of Dementia
Text B Personality Changes Associated with Aging
Unit 10 Text A Organ Transplantation: Ethical Dilemmas and Policy Choices
Text B Five Organ Procurement Policies and Proposals: A Comparison (Continued)
Unit 11 Text A Understanding Depression
Text B Stress: Personality and Gender Difference
Unit 12 Text A Responding to Natural Disasters
Text B A Natural Disaster and a Human Tragedy
Unit 13 Text A Genetically Modified Food—the Benefits and the Risks
Text B Food Additives
Unit 14 Text A Household Smoke May Be the World’s Deadliest Environmental Hazard
Text B The WHO Approach to Housing and Health

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