Ethical issues and debates

'This brilliantly subversive and witty book lays bare the techniques of manipulation and disinformation that keep the rich and powerful rich and powerful.

Is there any moral obligation to improve oneself, to foster and develop various capacities in oneself?

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

Enhancing Human Capacities is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement.

Globalization has brought different civilizations and peoples into new and closer contact.

Through the use of dramatic narratives, The Drama of DNA brings to life the complexities raised by the application of genomic technologies to health care and diagnosis.

This monograph examines the complex relationship between Antonio Buero Vallejo [1916 - 2000] and the ideologies of Francoist and post-Franco Spain.

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Die Nobelpreis-Schmiede Massachusetts Institute of Technology ist der bedeutendste technologische Think Tank der USA.

It seems that politicians and news pundits bring up the issue of abortion daily.

"e;No one makes me laugh harder than Judy Gold.

The only treatment of ethics from a scientific and engineering perspective The pursuit of science and engineering requires freedom of thought and, in the academic sense, unrestricted communication.

The news media are often accused of lacking objectivity.

Plurality within feminist networks and access to the state strengthen feminist''s abilities to face conservative antiabortion attacks.

Simultaneously examining four significant, never-before-combined case studies, this unique feminist analysis offers troubling revelations about the private-public interaction in U.

In today's contentious political environment surrounding abortion, clinicians, counselors and social workers need a clear framework for providing skilled, compassionate decision counseling.

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

In this provocative and accessible book, the author defends a pro-choice perspective but also takes seriously pro-life concerns about the moral value of the human fetus, questioning whether a fetus is nothing more than mere tissue.

Academic food ethics incorporates work from philosophy but also anthropology, economics, the environmental sciences and other natural sciences, geography, law, and sociology.

From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I.

Beginning with the Cold War and concluding with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hannah Gurman explores the overlooked opposition of U.

This timely work is a balanced overview of end-of-life issues related to euthanasia and assisted suicide.

A thematic introduction to Roman political thought that shows the Romans'' enduring contribution to key political ideas.

This authoritative annotated document collection surveys and explains efforts to censor, intimidate, suppress-and reform and improve-news organizations and journalism in America, from the newspapers of colonial times to the social media that saturates the present day.

Typically, educational leadership is not considered a moral-ethical undertaking.

Holly Porter explores wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda.

Military robots are affecting both the decision to go to war and the means by which wars are conducted.

What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid?

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.

Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.

Only a few years after the 2013 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Blackfish - an independent documentary film that critiqued the treatment of orcas in captivity - visits to SeaWorld declined, major corporate sponsors pulled their support, and performing acts canceled appearances.

Every muscle in my body ached.

In this culminating work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honor-a subject on which he was the acknowledged expert-and places it in a broader historical and cultural context than ever before.

Antitrust or competition law is widely considered an essential part of the legal and political structures of most liberal democracies and an integral foundation of a market economy.

Employing law and philosophy of economics, this book explores how copyright shapes ownership of ideas in the social media age.

Lifelong liberal Kirsten Powers blasts the Left's forced march towards conformity in an expose of the illiberal war on free speech.

Extreme copyright produces extreme consumption: ten hours a day, lost to screens.

Explores the historical origins and emerging technologies of government profiling and examines law''s role in contemporary technological environments.

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

This book outlines social and moral guidelines to combat violent, hateful, and illegal activity on the Internet.

Adam Ferner's engaging and personal book explores the ethical dimensions of childcare in a world riven by conflict and inequality.

This book re-imagines how activists use a variety of mediums, sometimes simultaneously, to agitate for - and against - legal abortion.

The book provides a critical analysis of electronic alternatives to documents used in the international sale of goods carried by sea, including invoices, bills of lading, certificates of insurance, as well as other documentation required under documentary credits, and payment processing arrangements.