I would have liked to be able to say that if you only read one book this summer you should read “Handbook of Econonomics and Ethics” and if I was only writing about the contents I would surely say that. This is one of the most interesting books I have come across for years and […]
Category: Book review
Book Review: “Distributive Justice and the New Medicine” by George P Smith II
Edward Elgar Publishing, UK and USA, 187 + 7 pp. Price: £55 (hb) Reviewed by Loane Skene, Melbourne Law School […]
Book Review: Elizabeth Bryan, Singing the Life – The Story of a Family in the Shadow of Cancer
Elizabeth Bryan, Singing the Life – The Story of a Family in the Shadow of Cancer. London: Vermilion, 2007, ISBN 9780091917159, GBP12.99 hb Book review by Richard Ashcroft email: r.ashcroft@qmul.ac.uk […]
Book Review: Choices in Palliative Care: Issues in Health Care Delivery
Choices in Palliative Care: Issues in Health Care Delivery Blank, Arthur E.; O’Mahony, Sean; Selwyn, A. (Eds.) 2007, XVIII, 238 p. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-70874-4 €54.95 Book Review by Simon Woods […]
Shit Priorities
Here’s a handful of moral statements that, I guess, many people would take to be trivially true: We ought to save lives where possible; Saving more lives is better than saving fewer; It is a good thing to save lives as efficiently as possible; Saving lives is more important than improving tolerable lives. Nothing too […]
Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 6. ed. – Nearing perfection?
It is rare to be able to review a book long before it is published. But my copy bears the publication year of 2009, even though I bought it in July 2008. Be that as it may, seven is the number of perfection so it is relevant to ask whether the 6th edition of Tom […]