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A review by rakoerose
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America by Jonathan D. Moreno, Amy Gutmann
4.0
This book definitely isn’t geared towards those deeply engrained in the field, but if you’re interested in bioethics and learning more about the American health care system, I think it’s a fantastic place to start!
Covering a wide range of topics from vaccines to physician assisted deaths to IVF to organ transplants to the controversial experimental research of the past, this book highlights the many faults and moral issues within our health care system. It’s made me desire a universal health care that much more than I’d already wanted! And also introduced me to some things I’d like to spend more time researching myself, which is always a fun thing to glean from non-fiction.
Sometimes books like this can feel lengthy and daunting, but the way each topic is narrowed down to effective chunks makes it manageable and also, if one desired, easy to look for a specific topic. It reads almost like a textbook but not quite, definitely fits the bounds of most standard non-fiction which I do like reading! It’s really clear that both Gutmann and Moreno are deeply knowledgable about bioethics, which was already obvious as they laid out their personal ties in the introduction.
I did really enjoy this! Seeing both sides of arguments pointed out is always so fascinating and I’m finding that I like learning when I’m not forced to. Perhaps I should pick up non-fiction more often!
Covering a wide range of topics from vaccines to physician assisted deaths to IVF to organ transplants to the controversial experimental research of the past, this book highlights the many faults and moral issues within our health care system. It’s made me desire a universal health care that much more than I’d already wanted! And also introduced me to some things I’d like to spend more time researching myself, which is always a fun thing to glean from non-fiction.
Sometimes books like this can feel lengthy and daunting, but the way each topic is narrowed down to effective chunks makes it manageable and also, if one desired, easy to look for a specific topic. It reads almost like a textbook but not quite, definitely fits the bounds of most standard non-fiction which I do like reading! It’s really clear that both Gutmann and Moreno are deeply knowledgable about bioethics, which was already obvious as they laid out their personal ties in the introduction.
I did really enjoy this! Seeing both sides of arguments pointed out is always so fascinating and I’m finding that I like learning when I’m not forced to. Perhaps I should pick up non-fiction more often!