Ethical issues and debates

Indigenous communities globally struggle to preserve their cultural heritage amidst a modern landscape shaped by technological advancement and free market capitalism.

Just talking about the tough stuff often provides a space for deep healing and new degrees of human connection.

In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country residence in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest.

Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change.

440 pages, 603 images, with 31 contributorsMedical Response to Child Sexual Abuse: A Resource for Professionals Working with Children and Families features a completely pediatric focus as a part of the Sexual Assault line and adds an illustrative multimedia component.

Understanding, appreciating and taking corrective steps to maintain and enhance social and ethical responsibility in the information age is important not only because of our increased dependence on information and communication technologies, but also because information and communication technologies pose complex challenges.

Everyone wants to eat fresh, clean, nutrient-rich food.

Do I buy eggs laid by free-range chooks or the cheaper ones from caged birds?

For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain.

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Imagine yourself transported to live with an early human hunter-gatherer group of 100 or so individuals, back about 250,000 years ago.

Is western civilisation based on a mistaken understanding of humanity?

This is a thought-provoking life-enhancing book addressed to ordinary men and women in the 21st century, that helps resolve a broad spectrum of moral dilemmas.

'Phillips discusses texts by Apollinaire, Pierre Louys, Georges Bataille, Pauline Reage, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Tony Duvert, Elizabeth Barille and Marie Darrieussecq, engaging in different levels of critical analysis so as to emphasize intertextual and parodic elements in one case, or points of possible identification in another.

Written by a leading campaigner for GM Watch, one of the world's leading lobbying groups, this book reveals the huge issues that are at stake.

***Winner of the Eileen Basker Prize and the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems***On the Game is an ethnographic account of prostitutes and prostitution.

Even today, many people think of 'social problems' as involving poor and powerless individuals in society.

Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France.

Imperial Germany s governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security.

In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance.

A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and ethical concerns about the social implications of recent developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we treat the human body and our attitudes towards it have changed.

The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduction.

"e;The best book I've read this year"e; Rachael, Goodreads reviewer "e;Fantastic"e; Rachel, Goodreads reviewer "e;Funny, insightful, heart-breaking"e; NetGalley reviewer "e;A magnificent book"e; Jo, Goodreads reviewer Step inside one of Britain's most renowned prisons.

Jose Maria Rodriguez Mendez is a noted playwright, an acerbic cultural critic, and a political dissident under Franco.

Transgenerational Technology and Interactions for the 21st Century explores how we as humans navigate the 21st Century, interacting with technologies, including those that are intended to support and enhance our experiences across the lifespan.

Transgenerational Technology and Interactions for the 21st Century explores how we as humans navigate the 21st Century, interacting with technologies, including those that are intended to support and enhance our experiences across the lifespan.

Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity.

Practicing chemists face a number of ethical considerations, from issues of attribution of authorship through the potential environmental impact of a new process to the decision to work on chemicals that could be weaponised.

Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countries.

Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countries.

Brand new from the top 10 bestselling author of The Midwife By The Sea.

The complex relationship between technology and social outcomes is well known and has recently seen significant attention due to the deepening of technology use in many domains.

The complex relationship between technology and social outcomes is well known and has recently seen significant attention due to the deepening of technology use in many domains.

In Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship, Mathieu Deflem and Derek M.

In Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship, Mathieu Deflem and Derek M.

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this book explores the complex construction of democratic public dialogue in developing countries.

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this book explores the complex construction of democratic public dialogue in developing countries.

Recreational drug users (other than those who take harmful substances like alcohol and tobacco) are regularly imprisoned.

Dance and Ethics: Moving Towards a More Humane Culture is an introductory study of ethical issues as applied to the history and field of Western theatrical dance.

Dance and Ethics: Moving Towards a More Humane Culture is an introductory study of ethical issues as applied to the history and field of Western theatrical dance.

Transformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behaviour and have a positive impact on the world.

After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party Ennahdha allowed previously silenced religious and conservative ideas about women s right to abortion to be expressed.

With an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court, and several states with only one abortion clinic, many reproductive rights activists are on the defensive, hoping to hold on to abortion in a few places and cases.

The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller'There is time and then there is Broadmoor time.

Whether spurred by religious images or academic history books, hardly a day goes by in South Asia without an incident or court case occurring as a result of hurt religious feelings.