Free Exam Copy Request Form

If you are an instructor and would like to consider The Hackett Introduction to Medical Ethics: A Guide for Students, Clinicians, and Ethics Committees as a course text we welcome you to request a free print or eBook examination copy using the form at the bottom of this page. The free exam copy offer is available until December 1, 2025, limit 1 per instructor. Print book exam copies are expected to begin shipping in August 2025. To purchase a copy at list price for personal reading, visit the book's title page here.

• Summer 2025
• 464 pp.
• Paperback student price: $35.00

With clarity and depth, The Hackett Introduction to Medical Ethics explains key debates and analyzes prominent ethical perspectives on clinical medicine, healthcare policy, and human experimentation. Using numerous examples and case studies, Altman and Coe apply value theory to contemporary medical practice and trace the repercussions for such philosophical issues as autonomy, death, and justice. The book invites a range of readers to investigate urgent moral questions at the intersection of the body and social institutions.

Reviews:

"With remarkable breadth and depth, Altman and Coe provide up-to-date discussions of both classic bioethical issues (such as informed consent and reproductive technologies) and more recent developments in the  field (such as relational autonomy and the impact of racial disparities on healthcare). The Hackett Introduction to Medical Ethics balances contemporary theory with clinical examples and cases in ways that will benefit both students and professionals in philosophy, bioethics, and healthcare."
—Jamie Watson, Cleveland Clinic Center for Bioethics and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine

About the Author:

Matthew C. Altman is Chair and Professor of Philosophy at Central Washington University, and Commissioner for Kittitas County Public Hospital District 1.

Cynthia D. Coe is Professor of Philosophy at Central Washington University.