Part 1: END OF LIFE ON FILM
Chapter 1: If I Was Restricted to One Film: Wit (2001)
Chapter 2: It's Really About Cruzan and Quinlan: Whose Life is It, Anyway? (1981)
Chapter 3: Closure and Family Systems: My Life (1993)
Chapter 4: "Bye, Bye, Life": All That Jazz (1979)
Part 2: FILMS ABOUT COMPETENCY AND DECISION-MAKING CAPACITY
Chapter 5: One Eye and an Alphabet: Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Chapter 6: The Successful Delusional: K-PAX (2001)
Chapter 7: Malingering and Nursing Ethics: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Chapter 8: Dementia and Capacity: Still Alice (2014)
Part 3: FILMS ABOUT BENEFICENCE
Chapter 9: "Am I Good Man, or a Bad Man?" The Elephant Man (1980)
Chapter 10: Pediatric Ethics and the Limits of Parental Authority: Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Chapter 11: Weighing Clinical Goods over Clinical Harms: Awakenings (1990)
Chapter 12: "She Threw Up in her Mask": The Verdict (1982)
Chapter 13: "How Many Dead Hemophiliacs Do You Need?" And The Band Played On (1993)
Chapter 14: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
Chapter 15: Physician-Assisted Suicide: You Don't Know Jack (2010).
Part 5: ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION
Chapter 16: The U.S. Healthcare System: Sicko (2007)
Chapter 17: We Heal No One; We Do Nothing: The Hospital (1971)
Chapter 18: Some Good Parts: The Transplant Films
PART 6: PROFESSIONALISM AND HUMANISM
Chapter 19: A Classic for a Reason: The Doctor (1991)
Chapter 20: A Home Healthcare Gem: Passion Fish (1992)
Chapter 21: A Tale of Two Colleagues and Pediatric Surgery: Something the Lord Made (2004).