Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics: Decision-Making, Principles, and Cases

great for class

This is a good book and I liked it.***However I did not order it. It was an error on the part of Amazon.

actually dont hate the way its written, one of the least hated texts books ive had to buy

Good.

This book was very well written and I enjoyed learning from it. The case studies were specific and helped further advance the knowledge gained by the topic being discussed. However I couldn't help but feel that there was some bias in this book toward how medical ethics should be. Don't get me wrong it was very discussion based and I believe this wasn't the intent of the writer, but as it was discussed in my class, using examples seemed to lead one way or another.

Thank you

Didn’t turn the book in soon enough got charged $300.

We used this book as the main text for the Bioethics class I took. I can see why the professor chose it- it covers everything you'd want to for such a class and it has questions interspersed among the chapters which makes for convenient homework assignments. However, many of the case studies are 40-60 years old. While this may be due to the fact that some of the disturbing things in the book would never be allowed to happen today as medicine has grown and learned from past mistakes, I believe the author could make more of an effort to find some newer examples. Or, if these older examples are now the only ones available to illustrate a topic, Veatch should do more to acknowledge this. Speaking of the author, his conservative, religious bias is clear, and therefore annoying, to say the least. For example, he takes great pains to express his opinion, presented as fact, that "morning after pills" are abortifacients and not prophylactics. The NHS of Britain would beg to differ. His commentary, especially after certain case studies, must be taken with a grain of salt as he is religiously conservative, probably why he ended up at a school in the middle of Kansas. Again, I can understand the book's utility for a Bioethics class, but there has to be better ones for personal reading.