Ethical issues and debates

Animal ethics is generating growing interest both within academia and outside it.

With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing question for governments, hospitals, and individuals.

"e;Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human.

An urgent and cautionary examination of the totalizing effect of smart home technology on the lives of those who live in them-and those who don't Smart homes are here-domestic spaces bristling with networked technologies that appear to enhance work, entertainment, logistics, health, and security.

Every muscle in my body ached.

Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a "e;technique"e; and a "e;science"e; that aims to understand the nature of meaning.

This thought-provoking reference work explores the evolution of America's heated abortion debate in a selection of over 40 primary documents from the 19th century to the present day.

He presided over 61,000 abortionsone of which was suffered by his then-girlfriendand directed the largest abortion clinic in the world.

This is Margaret Higgins Sanger's 1922 work, "e;The Pivot of Civilization"e;.

Aktuell gehören etwa 65 Prozent der deutschen Bevölkerung einer Konfession an.

This book focuses on the ethical issues in engineering that have to do with assessment, design, sustainability and globalization.

Food trucks announcing "e;halal"e; proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch?

Sexuality is a basic feature of human life.

The liberating promise of big data and social media to create more responsive democracies and workplaces is overshadowed by a nightmare of election meddling, privacy invasion, fake news and an exploitative gig economy.

What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common?

This book explains what affects the opinions posted online and how organizations can use social media data to inform their strategies.

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

The editors of Ethics at the Cinema invited a diverse group of moral philosophers and philosophers of film to engage with ethical issues raised within, or within the process of viewing, a single film of each contributor's choice.

Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe.

'Required reading for everyone' Adam RutherfordShortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 Medicine, education, psychology, economics - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance.

Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically and abroad.

The meanings and contexts of Shari'a are the subject of both curiosity and misunderstanding by non-Muslims.

La verdadera historia desde dentro de Cambridge Analytica y de cómo el Big Data, Trump y Facebook rompieron la democracia y cómo puede volver a pasarCuando Brittany Kaiser, una consultora política novata especializada en derechos humanos y relaciones internacionales, se sentó por primera vez con Alexander Nix, el carismático líder de la nueva empresa de comunicación política Cambridge Analytica, creía que los datos personales —la información precisa e identificable recogida de los smartphones, redes sociales y otros hábitos online— podían ser una fuerza para el bien.

Since the 1980s, religion has been most visible in American public life when issues of sexuality and reproduction are at stake.

Examines why a pan-European market for banking services has not yet been a viable proposition.

New military technologies are animated by fantasies of perfect knowledge, lawfulness, and vision that contrast sharply with the very real limits of human understanding, law, and vision.

The Quest for Press Freedom is a book about press development and freedom in Ethiopia, with a focus on the state media.

When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish.

During World War II, the civilian Office of Censorship supervised a huge and surprisingly successful program of news management: the voluntary self-censorship of the American press.

Censorship has been an ongoing phenomenon even in "e;the land of the free.

This book addresses the myriad controversies and examines the evidence regarding capital punishment in America.

Three main questions may be asked with reference to immigration:First: Have we any right to regulate immigration?

Illuminating Africa's Path to Development: Experts Unite to Offer SolutionsIn his insightful bestseller, Architects of Poverty, Moeletsi Mbeki examined why Africans comprise the majority of the world's bottom billion, illustrating how Africa's political elite are to blame.

A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human FlowIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, politicians, activists, doctors, and local authorities in twenty-three countries around the world.

Colin Farrelly contemplates the various ethical and social quandaries raised by the genetic revolution.

Este libro estudia la transformación, inestabilidad y precariedad de saberes y textos que es consecuencia directa de la actividad censoria de las inquisiciones ibéricas y de la promulgación y aplicación de los índices expurgatorios españoles de los siglos XVI y XVII.

Throughout history, states have tried to create the perfect combatant with superhuman physical and cognitive features that are akin to those of comic book superheroes.

This cutting-edge volume offers a theoretical and applied introduction to the emerging legal technology and informatics industry.

Politische Philosophie taucht tief in den Bereich des politischen Denkens und der philosophischen Kritik ein.

Contesting the putative "e;even-handedness"e; of many introductory social science texts, this innovative book presents strong and provocative arguments on contemporary social issues that will stimulate readers to think critically.

What is love's real intent?

Roboter und Gefühle – eine folgenreiche Beziehung.

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

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2021 An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: whose values are guiding gene-editing experiments, and what are the implications for humanity?