Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Issues in Biomedical Ethics
Lisa Yount · 1998
70/100
👍 Worth It
Lisa Yount's balanced pro-and-con treatment of biomedical ethics — assisted suicide, cloning, genetic engineering, animal research — is well-constructed for teaching critical thinking rather than arriving at conclusions, and the strong research apparatus makes it a useful library resource for middle and high school students. The content is necessarily dated from 1998, especially on genetic engineering, which limits its usefulness as a reference but not as a model for ethical reasoning. Parents should know the assisted suicide topic is presented as an open debate.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Assisted suicide and euthanasia presented as open ethical debates — parents of younger readers should be aware. We still scored it 70; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety78
substance70
craft68
originality62
accuracy58
hype55
age-fit78
human-eye68
Penny’s verdict70
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