Ethical issues and debates

Dignity is often denounced as hopelessly amorphous or incurably theological: as feel-good philosophical window-dressing, or as the name given to whatever principles give you the answer that you think is right.

In this new addition to the 'Debating Law' series, Emily Jackson and John Keown re-examine the legal and ethical aspects of the euthanasia debate.

This book outlines and analyses the legislative activity of the Union in an area which is currently experiencing exponential growth in terms of both commercial activity and legal significance.

Producers and Consumers in EU E-Commerce Law argues that the European Union is failing adequately to protect consumers' critical interests in the area of e-commerce.

This book is a successor to J Griffiths, A Bood and H Weyers, Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands (Amsterdam University Press 1998) which was widely praised for its thoroughness, clarity, and accuracy.

The Domain Name System (DNS), which matches computer addresses to human-friendly domain names, has given rise to many legal issues.

This collection of essays by well known specialists in e-commerce and Internet law, drawn from both academe and practice, analyses recent crucial legislation which has created, for the first time, a legal regime governing European electronic commerce.

Many advocates of euthanasia consider the criminal law to be an inappropriate medium to adjudicate the profound ethical and humanitarian dilemmas associated with end of life decisions.

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.

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.

Art is continuously subjected to insidious forms of censorship.

Art is continuously subjected to insidious forms of censorship.

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.

Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent of that complicity.

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.

From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments.

From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments.

'A provocative and important book that every pro-choice advocate should read.

'A provocative and important book that every pro-choice advocate should read.

Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from?

Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from?

Thirty-two years ago Mrs Li and Mr Wu from Zhejiang abandoned their second baby daughter at a marketplace.

Thirty-two years ago Mrs Li and Mr Wu from Zhejiang abandoned their second baby daughter at a marketplace.

The referendum to overturn Ireland's near-total abortion ban in 2018 stands as one of the most remarkable political events of recent times.

The referendum to overturn Ireland's near-total abortion ban in 2018 stands as one of the most remarkable political events of recent times.

Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech.

Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech.

When a journalist is sent a flash-drive containing critical evidence of illegal government activity, he is duty-bound to publish the story.