title: Nursing ethics, 2nd edition I Thompson K Melia K Boyd Nursing ethics, 2nd edition Churchill Livingstone 270pp £7.95 0-443-03458-3.
abstract: Without doubt, this excellent book should Illegible word available to all nurses. If ever there was a time when the ethical dimension of hospital life could be left to others, it has long since passed away. New forms of treatment, the emergence of a questioning patient clientele and controversial ideas in health care pushed ethical dilemmas into the routine practice of the modern nurse.