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Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Business Ethics and Society
by Lisa Newton, Maureen Ford
from McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 
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Very dated view of ethics
This book was not a good choice for the ethics class I took in college. One example was the Ford Pinto case. The arguments for Ford were very clear, but the case of the explosion was a reprint of an article readily available on the Internet. Many of the case studies were not apples to apples - but bananas to apples - meaning not equally persuasive on both sides.
The instructor who taught our class used old materials like this book -i.e. Ethics in America. If he had used a couple of the cases, that... more info
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You don't have to read it
This book covers 19 controversial issues. First the authors bring an issue, give some comments and give two articles that discuss the issue, but are contraversial to each other. The reason why this book cannot get more than three stars is that the choise of articles wasn't really successful. Sometimes some of the articles seem not to make sence at all. Some of them don't answer any questions. For instance, the one about Patenting Life; second article, which keeps ripping on Rifkin (the author of the... more info
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