Ethical issues and debates

This book discusses the history of music warning labels, specifically the Parental Advisory Label (PAL), and the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC).

'[A] vivid, inquiring memoir.

The technical progress illustrated by the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), online platforms, NBICs, autonomous expert systems, and the Blockchain let appear the possibility of a new world and the emergence of a fourth industrial revolution centered around digital data.

This Handbook compiles leading international research on the regulation of the sharing economy from a range of academic disciplines.

This book presents a novel framework to reconceptualize internet governance and better manage cyber attacks.

The twentieth century promised much in terms of progress.

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.

Writers in Brazil and Mexico discovered early on that speculative fiction provides an ideal platform for addressing the complex issues of modernity, yet the study of speculative fictions rarely strays from the United States and England.

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

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters'' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

Brings together different disciplinary perspectives and new empirical insights to explore the regulation of assisted reproduction around the world.

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

Stem Cells: Promises and Reality will tell you everything you have always wanted to know about stem cells, but could not understand the field from elsewhere.

Das vorliegende Studienbuch führt zunächst in die beiden Haupttypen unserer ethischen Tradition ein.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can't be fixed.

The things we do today may make life worse for future generations.

What if the doctor who had saved your child's life from a previously hopeless terminal condition had never been born--could have been born, but was aborted?

Moral Panics in the Contemporary World represents the best current theoretical and empirical work on the topic, taken from the international conference on moral panics held at Brunel University.

Named an ALA 2024 Feminist Rise Book Project Winner * Glamour Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 * theSkimm Favorite Book of Summer 2023 * NPR Science Friday Best Science Book of Summer 2023 An eye-opening, transformative, and actionable journey through radical and compassionate community abortion care and support work: what it looks like, how each and every one of us can practice and incorporate it into our daily lives, and what we can imagine and build together in a post-Roe v.

Bringing together ecology, evolutionary moral psychology, and environmental ethics, J.

This new edition of a well-regarded, student-friendly textbook for journalism ethics has been extensively revised and updated to meet the needs of the 21st century journalist working in the digital age.

Pregnancy is a period of time that institutes great change in the lives of those who are pregnant.

This book presents a close look at the golden age of Swedish pornography in the 1970s, with a specific focus on pornographic films screened in Malmo between 1971 and 1976.

This book combines genetics, reproductive biology and medicine for an integrative view of the emerging specialism of reproductive genetics.

Digital technologies should be making life easier.

In and Out of View models an expansion in how censorship is discursively framed.

With surveillance at work extending into the home and the deployment of AI in the workplace already rapidly expanding, concerns have been raised about the ramifications of these developments.

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.

A Kind of Pantheism: Escape from Cosmic Pessimism and the Quest for a Biocentric Ethic explores how such nineteenth-century transcendentalists as Henry David Thoreau and John Muir advanced a biocentric ethic that recognized the intrinsic worth of both plants and animals.

For some, he was Americas leading smut king, hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail.

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary bioethics.

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments.

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.

Der in der Forschung vernachlässigte "andere" Max Weber – jenseits von Kulturprotestantismus, Rationalismus und Fortschrittsdenken – steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Studie.

This volume brings together essential writings by the unjustly neglected nineteenth-century philosopher Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904).

Develops an approach to contemporary religious, moral, and political conflicts in which conflict may be constructively reframed and creatively engaged toward productive democratic practice.

Intended as a reference tool for college students, this book examines the origins of and controversies associated with birth control in the United States.

Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy.

Since its launch in 2006, WikiLeaks has rapidly grown into the most powerful and influential whistleblowing organisation ever.

A unique, documented case against the legalisation of ''assisted dying'', based mainly on empirical and logical ''slippery slope'' concerns.

Is travel inherently beneficial to human character?

How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights.

Ein unerfüllter Kinderwunsch hat viele Facetten.

The reign of Big Tech is here, and Americans' First Amendment rights hang by a keystroke.