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I have used the Pence "Medical Ethics" casebook. It is competent tier-three scholarship: It neither advances new notions or syntheses in ethics (medical or bio- or otherwise), nor does it offer elucidating commentary on such notions or syntheses. It offers a pretty decent overview of the received opinions in ethics as they get nattered about by medical- and bio-ethicists (a varied group that seems largely composed of self-defined, well, whatever...). What is particularly annoying – and of dubious moral worth – is Pence's manner of generating new royalty income. He juggles the same chapters around in new configurations, then calls the result a new edition. Not all that uncommon a ploy, but at least the other guys put new, up-to-date stuff in the colorful sidebars. All Pence does is change the subtitle from "classic cases" to "groundbreaking cases". Pfui; moral turpitude masquerading as "ethics".--djenner (talk) 20:37, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
