INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION: BASIC ISSUES IN BIOETHICS, 10th Edition offers students a compelling introduction to biomedical ethics by combining riveting human stories with clear explanations of cutting edge scientific research. A collaboration between a seasoned journalist and a nationally-acclaimed bioethicist, this textbook continues to be the most widely used bioethics textbook on the market. This edition features detailed Social Context discussions that connect current events with the emerging bioethical debate as well as challenge students to form their own bioethical arguments. And, each chapter includes crisp summaries of the relevant ethical theories as well as classic and contemporary articles on the most pressing topics in the field. Whether the student has no philosophical or scientific training, or is in a philosophical, nursing, or medicine program, this textbook's intriguing presentation of the conceptual debate and human story of today's biomedical ethics is hard to put down.