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Alison, aging and ill, looks back on her life as a teenage fashion model in Paris and Rome, the crash of her career, and her move to New York where she met and formed a memorable friendship with the remarkable, eccentric Veronica, a woman suffering from AIDS.

Animal rights' activist Spencer McCullough is shot with a hunting rifle by his twelve-year-old niece, Charlotte and as the family tries to come to terms with what happened, Spencer's employers file a lawsuit against the owner of the weapon.

Julia Duane Quinlan recounts her family's struggles to help their daughter, Karen Ann, die with dignity after being left in a permanent vegetative state, and explains why their private battle to shut off life support became a highly public controversy that changed the face of health care.

A collection of primary sources, including medical records, court documents, and papal statements, that help explore the ethical controversies that arose during the Terri Schiavo case, in which a young woman's family fought to keep their daughter alive through life support, despite her husband's wishes to stop treatment.

On the t.p.: The woman who was known as Eve tells the story of her triumph over multiple personality disorder.

Shares the true story of Alex Scott, a little girl who developed childhood cancer, and though sick herself, decided to set up a lemonade stand to earn money for her hospital to search for a cure for other children--sparking a nationwide movement.

Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.

Emily Rapp, the mother of a child diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease, a rare and always-fatal degenerative disorder, shares her efforts to make sense of her family's situation through art, literature, philosophy, theology, and myth and re-examines fundamental assumptions about what it means to be a good parent, to be a success, and to live a meaningful life.

In a futuristic society, autistic adult Lou Arrendale is offered the chance to cure his autism but wonders how much his disease comprises his personality.