Books reviewed:Teresa Chikako Maruyama, Hospice Care and Culture: A Comparison of the Hospice Movement in the West and JapanPeggy DesAutels, Margaret P. Battin and Larry May, Praying for a cure. When medical and religious practices conflictTod Chambers, The Fiction of Bioethics Cases As Literary TextsJanice M. Brencick and Glenn A. Webster, Philosophy of Nursing. A New Vision for Health CareSidney Bloch, Paul Chodoff and Stephen A. Green (eds.), Psychiatric Ethics, Third EditionMark J. Cherry, Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, RelationshipsAlice Domurat Dreger, Intersex in the Age of Ethics