Overcoming Addiction: Seven Imperfect Solutions and the End of America's Greatest Epidemic

“Overcoming addiction provides a reading experience simple in its clarity and provocative in the multilevel depth of its discussion on substance use disorder and the models that have come to be known as treatments. Bioethics commentator Pence expertly covers seven different approaches/models for understanding and treating various types of addiction, ranging from Alcoholics Anonymous to applied neuroscience discoveries. In a well-crafted text that combines clearly-defined, fact-based pros and cons with philosophical discussion on addiction, he also opens up discourse on the human conditions that support substance use and abuse. In addition to addressing the familiar legal and illegal substances, Pence explores the role of big pharma in addictive disorders and the near future as marijuana is increasingly legalized. The book is refreshingly void of inherent bias, focusing on facts, theoretical foundations and philosophy. Pence begins by introducing the complex of myths and facts that surround addictive behaviors and concludes with ten insights for fighting this “epidemic.” Each chapter is expertly written, provides a new perspective on existing models of treatment, and ends with a summary that might include critical re-reading. The presentation is clear enough to supper upper-level undergraduate and graduate coursework and will be helpful to any individual or professional working with people with substance use disorders.”

Summing up: Highly Recommended for All readers

Reviewer: B. L. Marshall, William Paterson University of New Jersey

CHOICE Magazine, January 2021, Volume 58, No. 5.

Pandemic Bioethics

“Gregory Pence’s Pandemic Bioethics offers readers a sweeping, whirlwind tour of many of the ethical challenges encountered as SARS CoV-2 emerged and devastated the globe. Pence is a skilled storyteller, educating readers about the historical context of pandemics and the ethical questions unfolding with real-time medical, research, and societal successes and failures. Consistent with his longstanding attention to classic and ground-breaking cases in medical ethics, Pence challenges readers to capitalize on lessons learned from COVID-19 in order to make appropriate ethical decisions during this pandemic―and in ones to come.”

― Christine Grady, Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center 

“Pandemic Bioethics is an extraordinary achievement. Pence expertly blends a wide range of relevant information about the pandemic with a variety of ethical theories to explore the many issues the pandemic raises for bioethics. This book could serve as the basis for a course in bioethics, but it is so readable that it should interest anyone who wants a better understanding of decision making during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.”

― Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University 

Medical Ethics: Accounts of Ground-Breaking Cases

"… this volume is a tour de force, “

 Jonathan Moreno, Hastings Center Report, September-October, 1991, p. 42.

Flesh of My Flesh : The Ethics of Cloning Humans A Reader

Re-creating Medicine: Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of Medicine

Designer Food: Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket for the World?

“DESIGNER FOOD is a timely, well-written narrative describing the ongoing heated debate about assuring the world adequate sustainable food production without hurting the environment or wildlife habitats. Pence argues convincingly for the development of improved crops by genetic engineering.”

Norman Borlaug, 1970 Nobel Prize winner and Distinguished Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A& M University

"To sort facts from hype, debaters need to be informed, and this book is the best to date for that purpose."

M. Kroger, CHOICE magazine, July-August, 2002.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Clone Club: Bioethics and Philosophy in Orphan Black

Cloning After Dolly: Who's Still Afraid? 

The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century

How to Build a Better Human: An Ethical Blueprint

Classic Works in Medical Ethics: Core Philosophical Readings

Elements of Bioethics