The new fifth edition of "Applied Ethics "covers a wide variety of contemporary moral issues from many cultural perspectives. This approach permits students to appreciate diverse ethical positions different from those they may have been acculturated into. Topics include hotly debated issues such as abortion, euthanasia, racial discrimination and injustice as well human rights, war and violence, gender issues and human cloning.
Pretty darn good for...well...applied ethics. Gives a decent range of topics and opinions. (Although, of course, pretty much all of the pro-lifers were men and the pro-choicers women. Go figure.) Some arguments I found to be poorly made. Although I can't exactly blame the editors for the content per se, I can still blame them for allowing such arguments into the book in the first place.