Bioethics

The book’s coverage is excellent and more than sufficient to ground a robust understanding of contemporary bioethics. * Choice *Its main strength is the clarity with which its authors lay out the facts behind the issues, as well as the various positions on those issues … facts and issues are discussed with clarity and illuminated by wellâpresented cases. * Jennifer Flynn, Bioethics *

Paul T. Menzel is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Pacific Lutheran University. He is the author of Strong Medicine: The Ethical Rationing of Health Care, and co-editor of Prevention vs. Treatment: What’s the Right Balance? and Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely Available Option for Hastening Death.

Bonnie Steinbock is Professor Emerita of the Department of Philosophy at the University at Albany. She is the author of Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses, the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Bioethics, and the co-editor of Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine: Contemporary Readings in Bioethics.