1. Introductory guest editorial

   • Howard Brody

   EditorialNotes Pages: 253 - 257

2. Family decision-making for nursing home residents: Legal mechanisms and ethical underpinnings

   • Marshall B. Kapp

   OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 273

3. The value history: A necessary family document

   • Renate G. Justin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 282

4. The role of the family and physicians in decisions for incompetent patients

   • David C. Thomasma
   • Edmund D. Pellegrino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 292

5. Futile feeding at the end of life: Family virtues and treatment decisions

   • Steven H. Miles

   OriginalPaper Pages: 293 - 302

6. Surrogate decision-making: The elderly's familial expectations

   • Dallas M. High
   • Howard B. Turner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 320

7. The patient in the family and the family in the patient

   • Barry Hoffmaster
   • Wayne Weston

   OriginalPaper Pages: 321 - 332

8. Ethics as conversation: The crucible of family practice

   • Bruce Denner
   • Donald C. Ransom

   OriginalPaper Pages: 333 - 348

9. Prognosis in medicine: An analysis of its meaning and rôles

   • Jørgen Hilden
   • J. Dik F. Habbema

   Special Articles Pages: 349 - 365

10. What we do: The humanities and the interpretation of medicine

    • Kathryn Hunter

    Special Articles Pages: 367 - 378

11. Review

    • Reidar Krummradt Lie

    BookReview Pages: 379 - 382