Ethical issues and debates

Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech.

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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.

This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and at specific critical historical conjunctures at which new elites attempt to redefine social reality.

Argues that treating people and artificial intelligence differently under the law results in unexpected and harmful outcomes for social welfare.

An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village.

This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change.

The international controversy (highlighted in Britain by the Bulger case) over the relationship between video nasties and crime is one that has a long prior history.

This book discusses thoroughly the major ethical, legal and clinical issues involved in the euthanasia debate.

Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses.

When it comes to government's role in personal matters such as family planning, most bristle at any interference from the State on how to exercise their reproductive rights.

Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice.

This is a comprehensive study of the impact of censorship on theatre in twentieth-century Spain.

Die Werke der Reihe "Recht und Neue Medien" zeichnen sich durch kompetente Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, große Aktualität und eine leicht verständliche Darstellung aus.

How do individuals change their behavior when abortion access increases?

Where do Canadian content requirements come from?

This unique compilation of legal and ethical guidance was first published in 2003, and incorporates key guidelines.

Sex, Love, and Gender is the first volume to present a comprehensive philosophical theory that brings together all of Kant's practical philosophy - found across his works on ethics, justice, anthropology, history, and religion - and provide a critique of emotionally healthy and morally permissible sexual, loving, gendered being.

Many decisions in the legal system and elsewhere depend on predictions of bad behaviors, including crimes and mental illnesses.

An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table of elements, bringing together "e;elemental"e; stories to reflect on everyday life in the Anthropocene.

Es wird gesagt, dass eine Handlung besser oder schlechter sei als eine andere.

While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare.

On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law.

What are the ethical issues involved in providing humanitarian aid?

Wie wird unser Leben in wenigen Jahrzehnten aussehen?

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.

An examination of differences in how the world''s democracies address a variety of issues involving free expression.

An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.

It seems clear that many formerly stable societies in wealthy developed countries appear to be falling into an apparent state of 'permacrisis' accompanied by an increasingly angry and irrational social and political culture that is undermining the peace and stability of our societies and democratic institutions, from the local to the global.

How is public morality understood in the twenty-first century, and what effect does this have on legislation and social policy?

Sadness is now a design problem.

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

Distinguished by its readability and scope, Moral Reasons explains how to think critically about issues in ethics and political philosophy.

This book brings together contributions by leading scholars that systematically cover the most important ethical issues concerning nuclear energy.

In this book, a global panel of experts considers the international implications of legalised euthanasia based on experiences from Belgium.

During the Civil War, Americans confronted profound moral problems about how to fight in the conflict.

'Overall, this collection of case studies provides an outstanding starting point for understanding the ethics of chemistry.

Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting.

Advances in computer science, artificial intelligence and data management have made engineering a dynamic and rapidly expanding industry.

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

Sexuality is a basic feature of human life.

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

Explains how abortion politics influenced a fundamental shift in conservative Christian politics, teaching conservatives to embrace rights arguments.

How can an "e;ethics of listening"e; guide the media to contribute to the deepening of democracy in Africa?

Featuring contributions from the US, Europe and the UK, this edited collection addresses issues relating to research ethics and integrity when undertaking social research with older people and service users.

Das Internet bietet neue Möglichkeiten, Produkte und Werke weltweit in bislang nicht bekanntem Ausmaß zu verbreiten und zu verwerten, und stellt enorme Herausforderungen an das Urheberrecht, was sich in einer Vielzahl von – insbesondere auch höchstrichterlichen – Gerichtsentscheidungen zu diesem Thema und immer neuer Gesetzgebung ausdrückt.

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

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.