How important is national health insurance? What should a national health insurance plan entail? What about the welfare of laboratory animals? These important issues form the core of this eighth volume in Humana's acclaimed Biomedical Ethics Reviews series. Interdisciplinary in approach, Biomedical Ethics Reviews 1990 presents keen insights into these and related problems in chapters by leading experts in ethics and medicine. Each topic is briefly summarized in an introductory chapter, followed by a focused, thought-provoking analysis of specific issues within the topic. The use of technical jargon has been minimized in order to render the articles readily accessible and useful to interested laypersons. Biomedical Ethics Reviews 1990 constitutes an extremely valuable - as well as timely - resource for everyone concerned with national health insurance or laboratory animal welfare today - topics that have had an undisputed, and sometimes tumultuous, impact not only on healthcare professionals, but also on the public agenda.