1. Introduction

   • Laurence B. McCullough

   EditorialNotes Pages: 227 - 229

2. Three concepts of patient competence

   • Haavi Morreim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 251

3. Patient autonomy, paternalism, and the conscientious physician

   • Stephen Wear

   OriginalPaper Pages: 253 - 274

4. Medical decisions concerning noncompetent patients

   • Richard W. Momeyer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 290

5. Competence, paternalism, and public policy for mentally retarded people

   • John C. Moskop

   OriginalPaper Pages: 291 - 302

6. Diminished capacity, friendship, and medical paternalism: Two case studies from fiction

   • Edmund L. Erde
   • Anne Hudson Jones

   OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 322

7. Reviews

   • Loretta Kopelman
   • Frank H. Marsh
   • Christian Probst

   BookReview Pages: 323 - 336

8. Who's who in the theory of medicine

   Legacy Pages: 337 - 339