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Haliburton here criticizes bioethics for relinquishing its critical stance for the 'status of a respected insider, whose primary role is to defend both existing institutional arrangements and its own privileged position.' She warns that 'if mainstream bioethics doesn't change its ideological ways, [and] refuses to risk its insider status ..., then it increasingly won't matter whether it exists at all.' . . . .This volume analyzes the situated self primarily through gender, given the author's feminist inspirations, but considers the implications such a self has for virtue ethics; narratives as culturally informing selfhood; the ethics of suffering; and bioethical practice that must consider political, economic, and social structures. Overall, Haliburton offers a refreshing, critical outlook on bioethics and its politicization. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. * CHOICE *

Haliburton here criticizes bioethics for relinquishing its critical stance for the 'status of a respected insider, whose primary role is to defend both existing institutional arrangements and its own privileged position.' She warns that 'if mainstream bioethics doesn't change its ideological ways, [and] refuses to risk its insider status ..., then it increasingly won't matter whether it exists at all.' ...This volume analyzes the situated self primarily through gender, given the author's feminist inspirations, but considers the implications such a self has for virtue ethics; narratives as culturally informing selfhood; the ethics of suffering; and bioethical practice that must consider political, economic, and social structures. Overall, Haliburton offers a refreshing, critical outlook on bioethics and its politicization. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. CHOICE

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Rachel Haliburton is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sudbury. She has taught courses in bioethics for nearly twenty years.

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