Laura K. Egendorf

Presents a series of articles on the ethics surrounding medical issues, including the health care system, transplants, and medical research and technology.

Provides a collection of essays that offer varying viewpoints regarding direct-to-consumer advertising, covering such topics as alcohol marketing, campaign-finance reform, and product placement.

Contains critical articles which analyze important literary works in the satire genre, profiling major authors and their works, and detailing the social, political, and philosophical trends that influenced them.

"Girls and Sports: This series provides readers with information on topics of current interest. Focusing on important social issues, each anthology examines its subject in a variety of ways, from personal accounts to factual articles"-- Provided by publisher.