Ethics and moral philosophy

This book begins the discourse on post-trial access to drugs in developing countries.

This book takes the contentious issue of designer babies and argues against the liberal eugenic current of bioethics that commends the logic and choice regimes of selective reproduction.

This gripping book brings back to life the events surrounding the internment of ten German Nuclear Scientists immediately after World War II.

The book proposes a systematic approach to big data collection, documentation and development of analytic procedures that foster collaboration on a large scale.

This book explores the relevance of Japanese ethics for the field of ethics of technology.

This book answers the question of how soft factors such as corporate cultures and individual and corporate values can be transparently steered.

This book deals with the thorny issue of human rights in different cultures and religions, especially in the light of bioethical issues.

This book is the first collection of essays in English devoted solely to the relationship between Aristotle's ethics and politics.

This book examines corporal punishment in United States public schools.

This book questions how abortion laws can be regulated in a time when abortion rights are still subject to intense debate.

This book offers fresh perspectives on issues of food justice.

This book explores topical issues in military ethics by according peace a central role within an interdisciplinary framework.

This Brief introduces engineers to the main principles in ethics, research design, statistics, and publishing of human subject research.

This book brings together the debate concerning personal identity (in metaphysics) and central topics in biomedical ethics (conception of birth and death; autonomy, living wills and paternalism).

This book explores what science fiction can tell us about the human condition in a technological world, with the ethical dilemmas and consequences that this entails.

This volume is a Festschrift in honor of Jacques Taminiaux and examines the primacy of the political within phenomenology.

A timely overview of ethics, emphasizing applications to biomedical researchers, health providers, and administratorsThere are no simple rules to guide ethical conduct in daily practice, health professionals must have a basic understanding of several topics including ethical theories; ethical scandals; laws, regulations, and institutional policies; and public perceptions.

This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical research.

This book defends the thesis that Kant's normative ethics and his practical ethics of sex and marriage can be valuable resources for people engaged in the contemporary debate over same-sex marriage.

This book offers a unique method for teaching ethics and social/political philosophy by combining primary texts and resource material along with three philosophical novels so that students can apply the abstract principles to real-life situations.

This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of Lacan's Kant with Sade, an essay widely recognised as one of his most important and difficult texts.

This book offers ethical and political approaches to issues that nonhuman animals face.

This book explores the transformational impact of new technological developments on legal practice.

This book on the history of palliative care, 1500-1970 traces the historical roots of modern palliative care in Europe to the rise of the hospice movement in the 1960s.

This book presents an alternative theory of globalization that derives not from the dominant perspective of the West, from which this process emerged, but from the critical vantage point of the Third World, which has borne the heaviest burdens of globalization.

This book provides science and technology ethos to a literate person.

This book follows the development of industrial agriculture in California and its influence on both regional and national eating habits.

This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems.

This book examines the concepts behind a philosophical project on postmodernism: the social and cultural condition of our time, the age of the achieved capitalism.

This collection of essays provides the first systematic investigation of practical necessity and offers novel perspectives on this intriguing phenomenon.

This book critically examines the conception of legal science and the nature of law developed by Hans Kelsen.

This book examines the many ways in which the Communist Party in China is still revolutionary by focusing on how, in recent years, it has attempted to mobilize Party members to become ethical subjects.

This is the first volume on the subject of the alleviation of world suffering.

This progressive resource places concepts of social determinants of health in the larger contexts of contemporary health ethics and the evolution of social reform.

This book is an easy to read, yet comprehensive introduction to practical issues in research ethics and scientific integrity.

In the light of a rapidly changing media industry with new technologies, actors and advertising models, and the critical role of media in society, this volume highlights the meaning of different values in media companies and media managers' decisions.

This book presents a number of fundamentally challenging perspectives that have been brought to the fore by the national tests on religious education (RE) in Sweden.

This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of the modalities, meanings, and practices of silence in contemporary social discourse.

The original essays in this book address the influential writings of Peter A.

This book explores the ethical dimensions surrounding the development of education for sustainable development within schools, and examines these issues through the lens of ethical literacy.

Short case studies, based on real stories from the health care arena, ensure that each chapter of this book is rooted in descriptions of nursing practise that are grounded, salient narratives of nursing care.

The essays in this book clarify the technical, legal, ethical, and social aspects of the interaction between eHealth technologies and surveillance practices.

Marine mammals attract human interest - sometimes this interest is benign or positive - whale watching, conservation programmes for whales, seals, otters, and efforts to clear beaches of marine debris are seen as proactive steps to support these animals.

High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world.

This book argues that McCarthy's works convey a profound moral vision, and use intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision.

This book considers the theory and application of ethics for a multifaith society.

This book contains the Proceedings of the International Conference on Robot Ethics, held in Lisbon on October 23 and 24, 2015.

This book explores the gamer's dilemma, which lies at the heart of theorising about the morality of certain video game content.

This volume explores the links between the rapidly growing phenomenon of social entrepreneurship (SE) and the international tourism and hospitality industry.

The Social Neuroscience of Intergroup Relations; Prejudice can we cure it?