Book reviews health-related reality of the other" where the other is recognised as a "particular" with individual needs, beliefs, etc. In the end, having explored the limitations of "caring" as a sufficient condition here, the author concludes that "impartiality" is also required. While an ethic set out in these terms should be considered acceptable by both men and women, additional specification is needed in the case of women so as to include attention to the historical circumstances of the relations between women and men, nurses and doctors. The author's argumentation here could well be complemented by analysis pertinent to that situation in which men, as well as women, are members of the nursing profession. In the US and Canada, for example, the number of male nurses is growing;diversity of interpretation in mainstream ethics theory. She confronts those who would dismiss feminist ethics as simply a gender-based inversion of a more traditional and commonly patriarchal ethic. Tong demonstrates through reasoned argument, ways in which central tenets of traditional theory are important in an ethics process and then she takes the reader skilfully forward to a reinterpretation of such themes. Her work calls for the reader, no matter how sceptical, to ask the essential "woman-question". What might be the impact of a decision or direction on women's lives? How might a situation be articulated with a woman's voice? How are women's experiences to be understood and differentiated one from another? What does a situation "say" about relationships in which decisions are conceived, and from which they are