Introduction; Staff of Center. Bioethics in the United States; L.S. Parker, A. Beldecos, L. Wettick, M. Manolakis, R. Arnold. Bioethics in Canada; J.R. Williams. Bioethics in Latin America; J.A. Mainetti, G. Pis Diez, J.C. Tealdi. Bioethics in a Supranational European Context; J.V.M. Welie, H.A.M.J. Ten Have. Bioethics in the United Kingdom and Ireland; D. Greaves, M. Evans, D. Morgan, N. Pickering, H. Upton. Bioethics in France; A. Fagot-Largeault. Bioethics in The Netherlands; M.A.M. de Wachter, G.M.W.R. de Wert, R.H.J. ter Meulen, R.L.P. Berghmans, H.A.E. Zwart, I. Ravenschlag, A.K. Simons-Combecher. Bioethics in German-Speaking Western European Countries: Austria, Germany, Switzerland; H.-M. Sass. Bioethics Developments Will Come Later in the New Eastern Europe; R. Nicholson. Bioethics in Spain, Portugal, and Italy; F. Abel, M. Pilar Nunez. Bioethics in Scandinavia; R.K. Lie, J.E. Paulsen. Bioethical Developments in India; I.C. Verma. Bioethics in Southeast Asia; R. Angeles Tan Alora. Bioethics in China; Ren-Zong Qiu, Da-Jie Jin. Bioethics in Japan; K. Hoshino. Bioethics in Australia and New Zealand; M. Charlesworth, A. Campbell.
As noted in Volume 1, the Yearbook series alternates between a biennial volume tracing recent theological discussions on topics in bioethics and a biennial volume tracing recent regional discussions in bioethics. Volume 2 provides for the first time a comprehensive single-volume summary of recent international and regional developments on specific topics in bioethics.
To give uniformity to the discussions all authors were asked to report on the following topics: new reproductive technologies, abortion, maternal-fetal conflicts, case of severely disabled newborns, consent of treatment and experimentation, confidentiality, equitable access to health care, ethical concerns raised by cost-containment measures, decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment, active euthanasia, the definition of death, organ donation and transplantation.
The internationally respected contributors report on the following 16 areas: the United States, Canada, Latin America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Germany/Austria/Switzerland, Eastern Europe, Spain/Portugal/Italy/Scandinavia, India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Australia/New Zealand, Council of Europe/EEC.
The commentators draw on three sets of resources: