Kenneth Goodman, director of the University of Miami Bioethics Program, has edited the first set of scholarly — i.e., not by family members or partisan — analyses on the case of Terri Schiavo, the young woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state and whose case emerged as a watershed in debates over end-of-life care. While many observers had thought the right to refuse medical treatment was well established, this case split a family, divided a nation, and confounded physicians, legislators, and many of the people they treated or represented.