Modern medicine can accomplish a lot, but it can't save every life. Nor can it answer every question.
The ethics of medicine are examined by psychiatrist and bioethicist Jacob Appel in the book .
In the title example, who decides you are dead if you are being kept alive only by machines? If a test determines that a man's daughter is actually NOT his daughter, who does the doctor tell? These hypotheticals and more make for a lively discussion of ethics in the healing arts.