Biomedical Ethics

Biomedical Ethics is tailored for nursing and health science program students and applicants in the community college setting. Bioethics textbooks for undergraduates are pitched to students at four-year universities. The level of discussion, the depth into which these books go into complex philosophy, and the vocabulary all set the community college student up for failure. These textbooks often include primary material with which students in the community college setting don’t need to be acquainted to succeed in their chosen professions.

Biomedical Ethics by Valerie Holliday:

• is written in a comfortable but formal narrative prose that invites rather than alienates, and challenges rather than frightens.
• connects bioethics issues to matters which today’s students will understand and find valuable.
• integrates some cases, theories, and histories that a twenty-first-century student must know to negotiate the complex medical environment.
• is flexible! Instructors can expand and contract content each day.  For example, if instructors have an interest in pandemic ethics, they may work off of the chapter on the Black Death.