Ethical issues and debates

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This ground-breaking book offers a practitioner-oriented overview of professional standards in all aspects of policing.

A clear and comprehensive introduction for students studying key regulatory challenges posed by technologies in the twenty-first century.

Following the success of his recent book on Navy SEALs in Iraq, The Sheriff of Ramadi, bestselling author and combat veteran Dick Couch now examines the importance of battlefield ethics in effectively combating terrorists without losing the battle for the hearts of the local population.

An innovative, interdisciplinary anthology arguing that we are unable to fully understand slavery - then and now - without attending to children''s roles in slavery''s machinations.

Der jährliche Bericht über rechtsextreme Tendenzen in der Rechtsprechung: Die Feinde der Demokratie sind so erfolgreich wie noch nie in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik.

Focusing on texts from the late 1970s to the 1990s which document both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy and dramatic environmental, medical, and socio-political developments during southern Africa's liberation struggles, this book examines how four writers from Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address the ethics of abortion and reproductive choice.

Birth Control: A Reference Handbook provides a breadth and depth of discussion about birth control throughout human history and in the modern day, with attention paid to the controversies related to it.

Die Pharmaindustrie: durch und durch korrupt.

The word 'data' has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means?

We are often expected to trust technologies, and how they are used, even if we have good reason not to.

The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems.

Die Corona-Pandemie trifft unsere Gesellschaft mit voller Wucht.

A look at how public relations has dominated public understanding of the natural environment for over one hundred years.

Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Quebec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Quebecois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices?

In keinem anderen gesellschaftlichen Bereich kann es zu solch existentiellen menschenrechtlichen Herausforderungen und Grundsatzfragen kommen, wie in der Medizin, in der es neben einem graduellen Verständnis von Gesundheit und Krankheit nicht selten auch um Leben und Tod geht.

The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty.

The governmental pledge to the American people is found in the First Amendment: "e;Congress shall make no law.

Die Untersuchung widmet sich den Prinzipien der katholischen Vermögensanlage.

The Syrian conflict constitutes one of the most covered events in this century.

Information, communication and automation technology (ICAT) ethics is the branch of applied ethics and technoethics which investigates the social and ethical issues of the integrated multidisciplinary ICAT field in the broad sense that includes all kinds of automated systems through the use of ICT and computer-based systems (autonomous control systems, communication systems, software agents, robotic systems, etc.

The descriptions and examples of unethical behaviors in sport in this book will challenge readers to rethink how they view sport and question whether participating in sport builds character-especially at the youth and amateur levels.

Immigration is a key concern in British society; however, the ethical implications of the issue are often overlooked.

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive look at the primary players, acts, motivations, and methods of the Army of God in their quest to make abortion illegal in the United States.

Künftig wird die Bestellung verpackter Lebensmittel über das Internet auch in Deutschland zum Alltag gehören.

Close-up insights on how experts in the field are re-interpreting ethical principles to create workable policies for today and tomorrow, from the creators of the 2007 APS Code of Ethics First cooperative project between Wiley-Blackwell and the APS Offers a close-up view of how enduring ethical principles are reinvented to ensure lasting relevance in times of modernisation and professional change Will be an accredited option for APS Professional Development the book will be built into PD workshops and also available for PD credits outside that context Essential reading for those involved in healthcare ethics internationally

The majority of gun deaths in the United States are suicide deaths, and the majority of suicide deaths are gun deaths.

The CAFO Reader is possibly the most powerful indictment of factory farming ever compiled, with essays from 30 of the world's leading experts.

A collection of first-person case studies that detail serious ethical problems in medical practice and research.

Ethik boomt: Sie soll uns in Zukunft vor Finanzkrisen bewahren, das mangelnde Wertebewusstsein unserer Gesellschaft ausbügeln und für mehr Gerechtigkeit sorgen.

At a time when far, radical, and extreme-right politics are becoming increasingly mainstream globally - sometimes with deadly consequences - research in these fields is essential to understand the most effective ways to combat these dangerous ideologies.

We've outsourced too much of our thinking.

A rigorous treatment of a thought experiment that has become notorious within and outside of philosophy - The Trolley Problem - by one of the most influential moral philosophers alive todaySuppose you can stop a trolley from killing five people, but only by turning it onto a side track where it will kill one.

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called 'foreign fighters'.

For much of the 20th century, the underground pornography industry - made up of amateurs and hobbyists who created hardcore, explicit "e;stag films"e; - went about its business hounded by reformers and law enforcement, from local police departments all the way up to the FBI.

This volume explores the sex trade in America from 1850 to 1920 through the perspectives of archaeologists and historians, expanding the geographic and thematic scope of research on the subject.

Offers the first-ever comprehensive treatment under international law of the foundational human right to life.

To this day, women globally are subjected to forms of control over their bodies, and their ability to exercise their reproductive rights in particular is still constrained.

Explores issues of global relevance around journalism''s relationship with political power through the lens of Southeast Asian states.

This highly original work introduces the ideas and arguments of the ancient Chinese philosophies of Confucianism and Daoism to some of the most intractable social issues of modern American life, including abortion, gay marriage, and assisted suicide.

So long as large segments of humanity are suffering chronic poverty and are dying from treatable diseases, organized giving can save or enhance millions of lives.

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The trope of humans being 'replaced' by 'AI' is one of the most familiar examples of the rhetoric of replaceability.

Finck examines the emergence of blockchains (and other forms of distributed ledger technologies) and the implications for regulation and governance.

A quick, easy-to-read synthesis of theory, guidelines, and evidence-based research, this book offers timely, practical guidance for library and information professionals who must navigate ethical crises in information privacy and stay on top of emerging privacy trends.

According to the World Health Organization, one-third of the global population lacks access to essential medicines.