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Title: Bioethics Online : A Guide to Bioethical Resources on the Internet by Robert T Brown ISBN: 0-595-22158-0 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 08 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.44 (9 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Bioethics Online
Comment: Contents:

Introduction
Governmental and Policy/Thinktank websites
Academic and Institutional websites
Professional Associations' websites
Commercial sites
Interest-group websites
Other bioethics resources

BIOETHICS ONLINE is possibly the first printed guide in book form to the vast array of resources on bioethical issues to be found on the internet. It is aimed at both scholars and students alike, and focuses on a range of areas of concern to those working within the field.

Websites from 12 different countries are represented in this directory, and the book attempts to highlight the growth of international interest in this expanding field. Particular emphasis has been placed on the wide range of academic institutions who have established institutes and centers based on the study of bioethics.

Policy and legal aspects of bioethical issues are also a particular concern of this book.

Rating: 1
Summary: don't be fooled - this isn't worth the paper it's printed on
Comment: As director of the largest bioethics site on the Internet, I have something of a conflict of interest in reviewing this book. While the book treats our site well, I can't help but note that this is a terrible reference guide for two reasons - it suffers from a lack of peer review and scholarly rigor, but where that pans out is that an average user won't find half of the good stuff that is out there, because the authors did not find it, because they literally did not know how to do research in bioethics. More important, this book is heavily biased toward dopey opinionated sites rather than useful sites, the kind of sites that someone who buys the book will be looking for (like a site about how to write an advance directive, for example...). This book appears to be an introduction to using the Internet for bioethics -- and only someone with no familiarity with the Internet would be persuaded that this book is a good introduction to that subject. There are so many better sources of information on the net itself -- and all that is required is that one uses search engines (including the engine at Yahoo!, Google, NIH or Penn, for example). One can't help but see this book as profiteering - it is so poorly put together yet makes such provocative claims to comprehensiveness. Save your money.

Rating: 4
Summary: A useful directory
Comment: When you're trying to explain to a new class of students where they can go for good web-based information on bioethics it can be a tricky task. I think this book is going to be a handy asset for faculty in selecting the best sites. There's even a site about how to write a bioethics essay. Its not comprehensive, but it doesn't set out to be - just a straightforward guide to some of the better material on the net at the moment.