Abstract
The last decade has witnessed the continued growth and evolution of medical ethics into a mainstream medical discipline, and paralleling this maturation is an increasing array of textbooks. Clinical Ethics , now in its third edition, has successfully spanned that decade to become one of the most popular, concise texts in the field. The well-known authors, an ethicist, clinician, and legal scholar, have considerable overlapping expertise, which, fortunately, results in a consistent literary style more typical of a single-authored work. The espoused purpose of the book is twofold: to serve as a reference work of reflective opinion about typical ethical problems that occur in medical practice and to develop a method for analyzing such problems as they occur. The structure of the text is unique with five main topics and chapters covering indications for medical intervention, preferences of patients, quality of life, contextual factors (such as social, economic, and legal issues),
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