Introduction. "Paying the alligator": precommitment in law, bioethics, and constitutions

Commitment problems in the theory of rational choice

Precommitment in bioethics: some theoretical issues

Precommitment: a misguided strategy for securing death with dignity

Precommitment issues in bioethics

Precommitment analysis and societal moral identity

The right to know one's genetic origin: can, should, or must a state that extends this right to adoptees extend an analogous right to children conceived with donor gametes?

Liberty, identity, and human cloning

Privacy and the economics of personal health care information

Beyond Dworkin's dominions: investments, memberships, the tree of life, and the abortion question

Norplant bonuses and the unconstitutional conditions doctrine

Personalizing personality: toward a property right in human bodies

Abortion, personhood, and privacy in Texas

Ethical considerations in the patenting of medical processes

Distinguishing government's responsibility in rationing public and private medical resources

Rationing medical resources: a constitutional, legal, and policy analysis

Rationing "normal" health care: the hidden legal issues

Malpractice liability and the rationing of care

The living will: already a practical alternative