Ethical issues and debates

A portable and imaginative aid to moral decision-making for students in all disciplines from social sciences to engineering.

It seems like every day society faces a new ethical challenge raised by a scientific innovation.

This volume combines ten papers on various aspects of aging in Canada (which together have been published in a special issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies) with several of the most important and interesting relevant essays from other sources.

This revealing volume explores recent historical perspectives on the modern euthanasia and assisted-suicide debate and the political arenas in which it has unfolded.

Western aid is in decline.

This book is an influential study of obscenity and film censorship centred on an application of Mill''s ''harm principle''.

Reprogenetic technologies, which combine the power of reproductive techniques with the tools of genetic science and technology, promise prospective parents a remarkable degree of control to pick and choose the likely characteristics of their offspring.

What kinds of moral challenges arise from encounters between species in laboratory science?

What are the contexts (political, social, legal, cultural) of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe?

Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts?

A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2023This annotated document collection surveys the history and evolution of laws and attitudes regarding free speech and censorship in the United States, with a special emphasis on contemporary events and controversies related to the First Amendment.

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In 1857 the trials of Flaubert and Baudelaire for offending against religion and public morality drew attention to the features we now associate with literary modernism; but instead of winning praise for their innovations they were indicted for "e;ideological crimes.

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

Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die.

In a stinging dissent to a 1961 Supreme Court decision that allowed the Illinois state bar to deny admission to prospective lawyers if they refused to answer political questions, Justice Hugo Black closed with the memorable line, "e;We must not be afraid to be free.

Drawing on scientific evidence from medicine, psychology, criminology, and sociology, this book explores the veracity of claims about marijuana use and misuse.

A fortuitous urban miracle, Tommy Thompson Park is an oasis of "e;accidental wilderness"e; on Toronto's lakeshore.

What is Big Data, and why should you care?

A commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies.

Guns have never been as prevalent in American culture as they are at this moment.

An anonymous musician plays Pachelbel's Canon on the electric guitar in a clip that has been viewed over sixty million times.

The Professional Guinea Pig documents the emergence of the professional research subject in Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs in development.

A concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have--and have not--incorporated ethics into their foreign policy.

This multidisciplinary book addresses the nature and meaning of relationships and identity in assisted conception families.

In October 2010, Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds appeared in the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern.

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

Discussions around digital technologies, new media, platforms and information have long centred on the protection of personal data and privacy.

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In Ireland, 2018, a constitutional ban that equated the life of a woman to the life of a fertilised embryo was overturned and abortion was finally legalised.

In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human.

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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.

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?

A new global history perspective on the relationship between convict mobility and governance, nation building, imperial expansion, and knowledge formation.

Will technology change what it means to be human?

A new global history perspective on the relationship between convict mobility and governance, nation building, imperial expansion, and knowledge formation.

This book is about the state of moral theology today.

This Element explores the global socioeconomic duties flowing from Kant''s understanding of beneficence and the rightful condition.

Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Best History Books of 2021 * "e;Fascinating .

The first volume of new work dedicated specifically to ageing ethics – wide-ranging, clear, and accessible.

'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Ethische Theorien beziehen sich auf das menschliche Leben von der Geburt bis zum Tod, seit einiger Zeit auch auf alles nichtmenschliche Leben.

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

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