Ethical issues and debates

Argues that any adequate neo-Aristotelian virtue ethic must account for our distinctive nature as the meaning-seeking animal.

This analysis of deliberative transformative moments gives deliberative research a dynamic aspect, opening practical applications in deeply divided societies.

What have different ideas about sex and gender meant for people throughout the history of the Middle East and North Africa?

From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics.

Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress.

This book addresses the dilemma created by the discrepancy between our efforts to prevent adolescent pregnancy and our support of adolescent parenthood, which the author argues is America's greatest unrecognized public health crisis.

The banner of deliberative democracy is attracting increasing numbers of supporters, in both the world's older and newer democracies.

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

Winner of the British Society of Criminology Annual Book Prize 2022.

Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterwordFrom the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E.

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

The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage.

Since the 1990s, most African economies and public spheres have been liberalised, and new civil society actors have emerged.

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This book sets out to defend the claim that Equity ought to remain a separate body of law; the temptation to iron-out the differences between neighbouring doctrines on the two sides of the Equity/Common Law divide should, in most cases, be resisted.

Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement.

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

Most women will go on the birth control pill at some point in their lives, and our generation owes a lot to it.

Explores ''simultaneity'' to show ''unresolved co-presences'' of contradictory ways through which people maintain multi-layered identities.

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

Offers the first-ever comprehensive treatment under international law of the foundational human right to life.

This Eden is a smart modern-day adventure reminiscent of both the cyber noir novels of William Gibson and the golden age of espionage fiction.

During the past several decades, the fetus has been diversely represented in political debates, medical textbooks and journals, personal memoirs and autobiographies, museum exhibits and mass media, and civil and criminal law.

In this third edition of Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, John Bratton and David Denham build on the classical triumvirate-Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber-by extending the conversation to include early female theorists such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as the writings of W.

A practical guide for policy makers, military officers, students, and anyone else interested in asymmetric conflicts.

In the United States, egg donation for reproduction and egg donation for research involve the same procedures, the same risks, and the same population of donorsdisadvantaged women at the intersections of race and class.

Examining the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice from the end of World War II to today.

'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.

Investigates how foreigners charged with capital murder in the United States are deprived of rights by police and courts.

The word 'data' has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means?

The case of Terri Schiavo, a young woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, has emerged as a watershed in debates over end-of-life care.

Sadness is now a design problem.

In autumn 1993 the Oslo Agreements were signed by Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, marking the beginning of promise for a constructive peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Perhaps never before has an objective, evidence-based review of the intersection between gun violence and mental illness been more sorely needed or more timely.

Art is continuously subjected to insidious forms of censorship.

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.

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.

Cohen critiques Timothy Findley's broad anti-censorship position; he traces Margaret Atwood's evolution from implicit support for the censorship of pornography in Bodily Harm to the rejection of censorship in The Handmaid's Tale; and he provides the first detailed study of the draft of Margaret Laurence's unfinished novel, showing the degree to which her final silence was a result of her censorship ordeal.

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

G is for Genes shows how a dialogue between geneticists and educationalists can have beneficial results for the education of all children and can also benefit schools, teachers, and society at large.

**A Guardian Book of the Summer 2025**** The instant top 5 Sunday Times bestseller from political commentator Ash Sarkar **'One of the boldest and most exciting thinkers of her generation' NAOMI KLEIN'Delivers its message with punch and panache .

Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century brings together a range of international scholars for a reexamination of Ivan Goncharov's life and work through a twenty-first century critical lens.

Cyberthreats are among the most critical issues facing the world today.

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

'These women are each a light and an inspiration, demonstrating how the best instincts of humanity - to love, to share, to protect others - can triumph in the worst possible circumstances.

An analysis and evaluation of Amartya Sen''s ''capability approach'' to development ethics.

This book critically evaluates the way ordinary people enforce morality in everyday life.

'Has the power to change the way you look at the world' Steven Bartlett'The heir to Oliver Sacks' David BaddielA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTHGluttony.

In order to describe the logic of morality, "e;contractualist"e; philosophers have studied how individuals behave when they choose to follow their moral intuitions.