Ethical issues and debates

This book is the primer on human trafficking in North America.

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.

Americans have a deeply ambivalent relationship to guns.

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.

A groundbreaking corrective work, Latina/o Social Ethics strives to create a liberative ethical approach to the Hispanic experience by using its own tools and materials.

Abortion is a contentious issue in social life but it has rarely been subjected to careful scrutiny in the social sciences.

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

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.

Indigenous peoples and governments, industrialists and ecologists all use - or have at some stage to confront - the language of land rights.

Quakerism began in England in the 1650s.

In the 1960s a movement led by family planning activists and feminists emerged to challenge state anti-abortion laws, resulting in the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe v.

Celia Deane-Drummond examines ethical issues in genetics from a Christian virtue ethics perspective.

'After reading Mitchell s guide, you ll know what you don t know and what other people don t know, even though they claim to know it.

In the past decade, right-wing efforts to end legal abortion in the United States have reached a fever pitch, with anti-abortion legislation being introduced in several "e;red"e;-and even some "e;purple"e;-states.

This book examines how algorithms in criminal justice, education, housing, elections and beyond affect autonomy, freedom, and democracy.

In this analysis of federal court cases relying upon the landmark Roe v.

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

Social work ethics provide practitioners with guidance on how to promote social work values such as respect, social justice, human relationships, service, competence, and integrity.

'Illuminating, witty and written with a wide open mind' - Sunday TimesAn exploration of humans, sexuality, interaction and technology through the lens of the sex robot.

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

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.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy-and what can be done about itAs the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy.

Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to result from the link between the collision of fundamental values and the increase of systemic violence.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to definition of torture by bringing together behavioral science and international law perspectives on torture.

A legal and cultural history of censorship, youth protection, and national identity in early twentieth-century Germany.

This moving memoir tells the story of how a young woman descended into the world of prostitution and drug abuse, yet found the strength to rebuild her life.

Considers why humans consider themselves superior to all other animals, and whether they are right to do so.

Nanotechnology manipulates matter at the atomic level.

A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and ethical concerns about the social implications of recent developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we treat the human body and our attitudes towards it have changed.

This book tells the real-life horror story of states'' abusing laws and infringing on rights to police women and their pregnancies.

When the children of Christian Scientists die from a treatable illness, are their parents guilty of murder for withholding that treatment?

Develops an approach to contemporary religious, moral, and political conflicts in which conflict may be constructively reframed and creatively engaged toward productive democratic practice.

What impact does our relentless fixation on gadgets have on the struggle for new kinds of solidarity, political articulation and intelligence?

Abortion remains one of the most politicized issues globally and whilst some countries such as the USA continue to experience restrictions to access to abortion, Northern Ireland stands out as having enacted historical positive change in abortion law, from an almost complete ban throughout the Twentieth Century to decriminalization achieved in 2019.

For over twenty years the abortion debate has raged, with each side entrenched in unyielding positions.

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

When journalists, academics, and politicians describe the North American anti-abortion movement, they often describe a campaign that is male-dominated, aggressive, and even violent in its tactics, religious in motivation, anti-women in tone, and fetal-centric in arguments and rhetoric.

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b.

In this entertaining anthology, editors, writers, art directors, and publishers from such magazines as Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Elle, and Harper's draw on their varied, colorful experiences to explore a range of issues concerning their profession.

How countercultural communities have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of digital technology use.

Given that persons typically have a right not to be subjected to the hard treatment of punishment, it would seem natural to conclude that the permissibility of punishment is centrally a question of rights.

According to the World Health Organization, one-third of the global population lacks access to essential medicines.

This text addresses the host of ethical questions that has arisen recently in response to the development of new reproductive technologies.

In the face of an uncertain and dangerous world, Americans yearn for a firm moral compass, a clear set of ethical guidelines.

Shortlisted for the R.

When the Turkish government demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide at Israel's First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Israeli government followed suit.