Ethical issues and debates

Offers a unique analysis of abortion policy worldwide focusing on effects of civil society, national governments and intergovernmental organizations.

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

This ground-breaking book offers a practitioner-oriented overview of professional standards in all aspects of policing.

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.

In this volume, Stephen M.

This is the first volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholson's well-reviewed four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence archives.

Privacy law isn''t working.

"e;A crucial intervention to both critical studies of consumption and research into activism.

Digital technologies should be making life easier.

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.

First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject.

This book is the first comprehensive report and analysis of the Dutch euthanasia experience over the last three decades.

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.

The great majority of Americans-more than 80%-say they approve of gambling, even if they themselves don't gamble.

Bioethical Prescriptions collects F.

Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems provides an overview of the key issues in global journalism today and traces how media systems have evolved over time in different world regions.

Explores issues of global relevance around journalism''s relationship with political power through the lens of Southeast Asian states.

An unprecedented, up-close look into the global self-managed abortion movement.

Enjoy two Sunday Times bestsellers in one in The Douglas Murray Collection, two controversial and devastatingly honest depictions of our world today.

This book is a critical look at how courts, legal scholars, and the academic culture mischaracterize and misunderstand religious beliefs.

Increasingly governments around the world are experimenting with initiatives in transparency or 'open government'.

Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from?

While other books deal with the contemporary issue of the right to die, no attempt has been made to demonstrate substantially the historic nature of this question beyond the borders of the United States.

A comprehensive history of censorship in modern BritainFor Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes.

Society is an ultrasocial superorganism whose requirements take precedence over individuals.

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.

Art is continuously subjected to insidious forms of censorship.

A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world.

This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures.

A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retributionIran's criminal courts are notorious for meting out severe sentencesaccording to Amnesty International, the country has the world's highest rate of capital punishment per capita.

When Margaret Sanger returned to Europe in 1920, World War I had altered the social landscape as dramatically as it had the map of Europe.

In the late 1910s Dr.

This book considers the response to the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa by examining family planning programs and HIV prevention efforts.

National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders.

How can ethics be communicated in an age of globalisation?

This book explores the increasing altruistic impulse of the design community to address some of the world's most difficult problems including social, political, environmental, and global health causes at the local, national, and global scale.

Kai Draper begins his book with the assumption that individual rights exist and stand as moral obstacles to the pursuit of national no less than personal interests.

Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence.

A history and analysis of gambling in the United States from bingo to state lotteries to Indian gaming and the rise of Las Vegas, this book reveals how we have become a nation of gamblers and what the future holds for the gambling industry.

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.

How did the early Christians manage to establish a religion and institution which, despite persecution, flourished and grew?

**Available now: Whistleblower Frances Haugen's searing expos of the internal workings of Facebook revealing the company's struggles to regain control over its platform and to stop the spread of misinformation**__________In the spring of 2021, when news outlets feasted on "e;the Facebook Files,"e; Frances Haugen went public as the former employee who blew the whistle on the company by copying tens of thousands of documents.

This 2001 book examines the ways in which books were produced, read and received in Jacobean England.

Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism.

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

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology.

Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as Roe v.

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In the summer of 2014, renowned American Indian studies professor Steven Salaita had his appointment to a tenured professorship revoked by the board of trustees of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Climate change is perhaps the most important issue of our time and yet despite the urgency of the problem, the measures necessary to mitigate it have not been implemented.