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Ethics in practice : an anthology /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: LaFollette, Hugh, 1948- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Wiley/Blackwell, 2014.
Edition:Fourth edition.
Series:Blackwell philosophy anthologies ; 38.
Subjects:
Applied ethics.
Ethical problems.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I : Ethical Theory. Ethical Theory.
  • Consequentialism / William H. Shaw
  • Deontology / David McNaughton and Piers Rawling
  • Rights / George W. Rainbolt
  • Virtue Theory / Rosalind Hursthouse
  • Part II : Life and Death.
  • Euthanasia.
  • Rule-Utilitarianism and Euthanasia / Brad Hooker
  • Justifying Physician-Assisted Deaths / Tom L. Beauchap
  • Against the Right to Die / J. David Velleman
  • Dying at the Right Time : Reflections on (Un)Assisted Suicide / John Hardwig
  • A Duty to Care Revisited / Felicia Cohn and Joanne Lynn
  • Abortion.
  • A Defense of Abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson
  • On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion / Mary Anne Warren
  • An Argument that Abortion is Wrong / Don Marquis
  • The Moral Permissibility of Abortion / Margaret Olivia Little
  • Virtue Theory and Abortion / Rosalind Hursthouse
  • Animals.
  • All Animals are Equal / Peter Singer
  • Moral Standing, the Value of Lives, and Speciesism / R.G. Frey
  • The Case for Animal Rights / Tom Regan
  • The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research / Carl Cohen
  • Why Cohen is Mistaken / Hugh LaFollette
  • Part III : The Personal Life.
  • Family and Sexuality.
  • What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents? / Jane English
  • Morality, Parents, and Children / James Rachels
  • Missing Staircases and the Marriage Debate : Is Same-Sex Marriage Bad for Children? / John Corvina
  • What is Marriage for? Children Need Mothers and Fathers / Maggie Gallagher
  • Biomedical Technologies.
  • Artificial Means of Reproduction and Our Understanding of the Family / Ruth Macklin
  • Is Women's Labor a Commodity? / Elizabeth S. Andrews
  • "Goodbye Dolly?" The Ethics of Human Cloning / John Harris
  • The Wisdom of Repugnance : Why We Should Ban the Cloning of Humans / Leon R. Kass
  • Cognitive Enhancement / Allen Buchanan and David R. Crawford
  • Part IV : Liberty and Equality.
  • Paternalism and Risk.
  • Freedom of Action / John Stuart Mill
  • On Improving People by Political Means / Lester H. Hunt
  • Against the Legalization of Drugs / James Q. Wilson
  • Why We Should Decriminalize Drug Use / Douglas Husack
  • The Liberal Basis of the Right to Bear Arms / Todd C. Hughes and Lester H. Hunt
  • Gun Control / Hugh LaFollette
  • Free Speech.
  • Freedom of Thought and Discussion / John Stuart Mill
  • "The Price We Pay?" Pornography and Harm / Susan J. Brison
  • The Right to Get Turned On : Pornography, Autonomy, Equality / Andrew Altman
  • Sticks and Stones / John Arthur
  • Speech Codes and Expressive Harm / Andrew Altman
  • Sexual and Racial Discrimination.
  • Racism / Michele Moody-Adams-- Servility and Self-Respect / Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
  • Sexual Harassment / Anita M. Superson
  • Date Rape / Lois Pineau
  • Men in Groups : Collective Responsibility for Rape / Larry May and Robert Strikwerda
  • Affirmative Action.
  • The Case against Affirmative Action / Louis P. Pojman
  • The Rights of Allan Bakke / Ronald Dworkin
  • Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity : Challenging the Myth of "Preferential Treatment" / Luke Charles Harris and Uma Narayan
  • Part V : Justice.
  • Punishment.
  • Punishment and Desert / James Rachels
  • Out of Character : On the Psychology of Excuses in the Criminal Law / John M. Doris
  • Does Punishment Work? / John Paul Wright, Francis T. Cullen and Kevin M. Beaver
  • In Defense of the Death Penalty / Louis P. Pojman
  • Against the Death Penalty / Jeffrey Reiman
  • Economic Justice.
  • A Theory of Justice / John Rawls
  • The Entitlement Theory of Justice / Robert Nozick
  • Displacing the Distributive Paradigm / Iris Marion Young
  • Economic Competition : Should We Care about the Losers? / Jonathan Wolff
  • World Hunger. Famine, Affluence, and Morality / Peter Singer
  • Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code / John Archer
  • Eradicating Systemic Poverty : Brief for a Global Resources Dividend / Thomas W. Pogge
  • Feeding People versus Saving Nature / Holmes Rolston III
  • Environment.
  • The Value of Nature / Ronald Sandler
  • A Place for Cost-Benefit Analysis / David Schmidtz
  • Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments / Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
  • A Perfect Moral Storm : Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics, and the Problem of Moral Corruption / Stephen M. Gardiner
  • War, Terrorism, and Reconciliation.
  • Is the War on Terrorism a Defense of Civilization? / Stephen Nathanson
  • Just War Doctrine and the Military Response to Terrorism / Joseph Boyle
  • Nipping Evil in the Bud : The Questionable Ethics of Preventive Force / Douglas P. Lackey
  • The Justifiability of Humanitarian Intervention / Charles R. Beitz
  • Pacifism : Reclaiming the Moral Presumption / William J. Hawk
  • Political Reconciliation / Colleen Murphy.