Book Review: Making Choices

Abstract

Introduction:  Matters of Life and Death is situated by its author in the gap between theory and practice in bioethics. Instead of engaging in the ‘theory vs. cases’ debate, Orentlicher considers what happens when we translate principles into practice. His contention is that there are a number of moral concerns involved in making this translation and that they are often overlooked. Further, he suggests that identifying the methods of translation can help us to settle some of the more intractable conflicts around matters of life and death.