Abstract
The author's credentials, professor of bioethics in the Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, reflect the rapid transformation that has occurred in the previously static field of medical ethics. There is now a well-defined need for people who can address ethical dilemmas in modern medicine in the acute-care setting. The explosion of new technology has brought ethical concerns to health-care professionals as individuals and society as a whole that could not have been even imagined a few short years ago. The author is trained as a philosopher, and one would expect a certain studied reflective style in this work, but such is not the case. This is not a ponderous, didactic discourse on abstract ethics. From her experience as a member of a working institutional ethical review committee, she has been able to convey the urgency, ambiguity, and frustration that come with tackling ethical
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