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The Right to Life in Japan (Hardcover, New): Noel Williams The Right to Life in Japan (Hardcover, New)
Noel Williams
R4,623 Discovery Miles 46 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Right to Life in Japan is a study that brings new perspectives to bear on an extremely important topic for all those facing the moral dilemmas of such issues as abortion and the death penalty. It also helps to fill a gap in life, in social science and law studies of contemporary Japan.
Noel Williams approaches the right to life in Japan from a legal viewpoint via a broad range of issues such as abortion, suicide, capital punishment and death from overwork. Following a discussion of law and rights in Japan from an historical perspective, the author examines the question of what life is in contemporary Japan and focuses on problematic areas which have arisen in life issues, including infringements of the right to life within the modern company organization, and by the state, as well as the question of the equality of the right to life.

Violence, Culture And Censure (Hardcover): Professor Colin Sumner, Colin Sumner Violence, Culture And Censure (Hardcover)
Professor Colin Sumner, Colin Sumner
R4,479 Discovery Miles 44 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Essays reflecting on our understanding and moral judgement of violence. The essays argue that even serious violence is not a simple fact, but a category of thought and practice rooted in history, culture and society.

Violence, Culture And Censure (Paperback): Professor Colin Sumner, Colin Sumner Violence, Culture And Censure (Paperback)
Professor Colin Sumner, Colin Sumner
R1,555 Discovery Miles 15 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Essays reflecting on our understanding and moral judgement of violence. The essays argue that even serious violence is not a simple fact, but a category of thought and practice rooted in history, culture and society.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Drug Traffic Terms - In English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and German (Hardcover): N. Illanes Elsevier's Dictionary of Drug Traffic Terms - In English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and German (Hardcover)
N. Illanes
R8,012 Discovery Miles 80 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This dictionary provides fast and easy access to terms in areas such as: legal, judicial and court proceedings; law enforcement, police and military training; chemical essentials and chemical precursors; natural, synthetic and designer drugs; banking and money laundering. It also presents some related terminology for environmental, medical, psychological, social and economic matters. The dictionary includes a large number of jargon terms, and explanations of these have been provided in some cases, in order to ensure better understanding. This work is an indispensable tool for conference interpreters, court interpreters, translators and social workers.

Debating Procreation - Is It Wrong to Reproduce? (Hardcover): David Benatar, David Wasserman Debating Procreation - Is It Wrong to Reproduce? (Hardcover)
David Benatar, David Wasserman
R3,786 Discovery Miles 37 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. In Debating Procreation, David Benatar and David Wasserman take opposing views on this important question. David Benatar argues for the anti-natalist view that it is always wrong to bring new people into existence. He argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm and that even if it were not always so, the risk of serious harm is sufficiently great to make procreation wrong. In addition to these "philanthropic" arguments, he advances the "misanthropic" one that because humans are so defective and cause vast amounts of harm, it is wrong to create more of them. David Wasserman defends procreation against the anti-natalist challenge. He outlines a variety of moderate pro-natalist positions, which all see procreation as often permissible but never required. After criticizing the main anti-natalist arguments, he reviews those pronatalist positions. He argues that constraints on procreation are best understood in terms of the role morality of prospective parents, considers different views of that role morality, and argues for one that imposes only limited constraints based on the well-being of the future child. He then argues that the expected good of a future child and of the parent-child relationship can provide a strong justification for procreation in the face of expected adversities without giving individuals any moral reason to procreate

Police Ethics - The Corruption of Noble Cause (Hardcover, 4th edition): Michael Caldero, Jeffrey Dailey, Brian Withrow Police Ethics - The Corruption of Noble Cause (Hardcover, 4th edition)
Michael Caldero, Jeffrey Dailey, Brian Withrow
R6,000 Discovery Miles 60 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Police Ethics, Fourth Edition, provides an analysis of corruption in law enforcement organizations. The authors argue that the noble cause-a commitment to "doing something about bad people"-is a central "ends-based" police ethic. This fundamental principle of police ethics can paradoxically open the way to community polarization and increased violence, however, when officers violate the law on behalf of personally held moral values. This book is about the power that police use to do their work and how it can lead police to abuse their positions at the individual and organizational levels. It provides students of policing with a realistic understanding of the kinds of problems they will confront in the practice of police work. This timely new edition offers police administrators direction for developing agency-wide corruption prevention strategies, and a re-written chapter further expands our level of understanding of corruption by covering the Model of Circumstantial Corruptibility in detail. The fourth edition also discusses critical ethical issues relating to the relationship between police departments and minority communities, including Black Lives Matter and other activist groups. In the post-Ferguson environment, this is a crucial text for students, academicians, and law enforcement professionals alike.

Snow Job - The War Against International Cocaine Trafficking (Hardcover): Kevin Jack Riley Snow Job - The War Against International Cocaine Trafficking (Hardcover)
Kevin Jack Riley
R2,834 Discovery Miles 28 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Comprehensive analysis of the contents and impact of the source country control policies implemented by the US, particularly in reference to Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. After detailed analysis of drug traffickers' ability to defeat 'supply-side' policies, author recommends that the US pursue 'strategic goals based on institutional building and regime stability,' that is, to focus on strengthening the police and judicial capacities of Latin American governments to confront, control, and punish drug traffickers while also assisting governments with adequate interdiction, domestic enforcement, and treatment policies"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

The Texts of Othello and Shakespearean Revision (Hardcover): E.A.J. Honigmann The Texts of Othello and Shakespearean Revision (Hardcover)
E.A.J. Honigmann
R4,485 Discovery Miles 44 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This piece of literary detective work uncovers the hidden history of the two early texts of "Othello", the Quarto and the Folio. It traces the crucial roles played by two people who were closely involved in transforming Shakespeare's almost illegible manuscripts into print: Thomas Walkley, the publisher of Q, whose questionable editoral procedures and shaky finances were involving him in litigation with a printer and another of his authors during the period when Q "Othello" was passing through his hands; and Ralph Crane, the scribe who was responsible for preparing printer's copy for F. New evidence enables the author both to identify the scribe and to look in detail at his working practices. The author argues that many readings in the F text, adopted by almost all editors and long since regarded as fundamentally "Shakespearean", are substitutions highly characteristic of Crane, and not the words written by Shakespeare. Building on this information, and analyzing many passages in detail, the author questions time-honoured editorial procedures - among them the treatment of Shakespeare's verse.

The Culture of Cynicism: American Morality in Decline (Paperback, New): Stivers The Culture of Cynicism: American Morality in Decline (Paperback, New)
Stivers
R1,136 Discovery Miles 11 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"The Culture of Cynicism" is the most wide-ranging and thought-provoking book yet written on American morality. It traces the intellectual history of American morality from its European origins in the Middle Ages to the 1990s.

American culture, Professor Stivers argues, is a culture of cynicism. The pursuit of the mystical values of success, survival, happiness, and health has produced a corrosive and pervasive morality which is actually an "anti-morality." The result is a world in which there are norms without meaning, and everyday life is reduced to an empty struggle for power and satisfaction. This leads to boredom, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, addiction, susceptibility to religious cults, bizarre psychotherapies, widespread divorce, and damaged personal relationships.

"The Culture of Cynicism" not only lays bare the internal contradictions of American morality, but also charts the new forms it has assumed. It demonstrates compellingly that neither liberal nor conservative commentators on America's moral decline have grasped what is really the case: that American morality itself is the source of this decline. What we need is not a "return" to higher moral standards, but a complete revision of America's foundational ethics.

Through the Moral Maze - Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World (Paperback, 1st paperback ed): Robert Kane Through the Moral Maze - Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World (Paperback, 1st paperback ed)
Robert Kane
R1,499 Discovery Miles 14 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"On the ... issue of our pluralistic age -- whether we can continue to believe in absolute value -- Robert Kane has written the most helpful discussion I know. It is clear, cogent, and above all, convincing". -- Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions

Privacy II - Exploring Questions of Media Morality: A Special Issue of the journal of Mass Media Ethics (Paperback): Jay Black Privacy II - Exploring Questions of Media Morality: A Special Issue of the journal of Mass Media Ethics (Paperback)
Jay Black
R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Concerns over privacy in America and the role of a free and responsible press have intensified in recent years. The Journal of Mass Media Ethics has worked with Poynter Institute for Media Studies in an effort to focus and broaden the discussion. This issue -- the second devoted to privacy matters -- features articles that the editors hope will add useful perspectives to the current discussions of privacy issues, particularly those raised by new technology.

Professional Lives, Personal Struggles - Ethics and Advocacy in Research on Homelessness (Hardcover): Randall Amster, Martha... Professional Lives, Personal Struggles - Ethics and Advocacy in Research on Homelessness (Hardcover)
Randall Amster, Martha Trenna Valado; Contributions by Julie Adkins, Kathleen Arnold, Kurt Borchard, …
R2,747 Discovery Miles 27 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edited volume illuminates critical research issues through the particular lens of homelessness, bringing together some of the leading scholars in the field, from an array of disciplines and perspectives, to explore this condition of marginalization and the ethical dilemmas that arise within it. The authors provide insights into the realities and challenges of social research that will guide students, activists, practitioners, policymakers, and service providers, as well as both novice and seasoned researchers in fields of inquiry ranging from anthropology and sociology to geography and cultural studies. Although many texts have explored the subject of homelessness, few have attempted to encapsulate and examine the complex process of researching the issue as a phenomenon unto itself. Professional Lives, Personal Struggles examines the many challenges of conducting ethical research on homelessness, as well as the potential for positive change and transformation, through the deeply personal accounts of scholars and advocates with extensive experience working in the field.

Administrative Ethics and Executive Decisions - Channeling and Containing Administrative Discretion (Hardcover): Chad B.... Administrative Ethics and Executive Decisions - Channeling and Containing Administrative Discretion (Hardcover)
Chad B. Newswander
R4,458 Discovery Miles 44 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As first responders to public problems, administrators must survey situations, identify solutions, and occasionally make executive decisions that are binding upon the government as a whole. The ability for administrators to assert claims that orient the government in a particular direction is not only powerful, but it can also be problematic and even dangerous. For administrators, the tension between moving in a spirited way, and remaining sensible, is a problem of how to exercise one's discretion, especially in the U.S. context, which demands that both be considered and actualized. In dealing with these competing expectations, Chad B. Newswander analyzes how administrators can incorporate executive, legislative, and judicial tendencies to help them handle the problem of discretion. Expanding the thinking of the constitutional school of public administration thought, Administrative Ethics and Executive Decisions is a theoretically grounded and empirically rich study of how administrators incorporate a constitutional ethos to handle the problem of discretion.

The Origins of Fairness - How Evolution Explains Our Moral Nature (Hardcover): Nicolas Baumard The Origins of Fairness - How Evolution Explains Our Moral Nature (Hardcover)
Nicolas Baumard
R2,628 Discovery Miles 26 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In order to describe the logic of morality, "contractualist " philosophers have studied how individuals behave when they choose to follow their moral intuitions. These individuals, contractualists note, often act as if they have bargained and thus reached an agreement with others about how to distribute the benefits and burdens of mutual cooperation. Using this observation, such philosophers argue that the purpose of morality is to maximize the benefits of human interaction. The resulting "contract " analogy is both insightful and puzzling. On one hand, it captures the pattern of moral intuitions, thus answering questions about human cooperation: why do humans cooperate? Why should the distribution of benefits be proportionate to each person's contribution? Why should the punishment be proportionate to the crime? Why should the rights be proportionate to the duties? On the other hand, the analogy provides a mere as-if explanation for human cooperation, saying that cooperation is "as if " people have passed a contract-but since they didn't, why should it be so? To evolutionary thinkers, the puzzle of the missing contract is immediately reminiscent of the puzzle of the missing "designer " of life-forms, a puzzle that Darwin's theory of natural selection essentially resolved. Evolutionary and contractualist theory originally intersected at the work of philosophers John Rawls and David Gauthier, who argued that moral judgments are based on a sense of fairness that has been naturally selected. In this book, Nicolas Baumard further explores the theory that morality was originally an adaptation to the biological market of cooperation, an arena in which individuals competed to be selected for cooperative interactions. In this environment, Baumard suggests, the best strategy was to treat others with impartiality and to share the costs and benefits of cooperation in a fair way, so that those who offered less than others were left out of cooperation while those who offered more were exploited by their partners. It is with this evolutionary approach that Baumard ultimately accounts for the specific structure of human morality.

The Wretched of France - The 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism (Paperback): Abdellali Hajjat The Wretched of France - The 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism (Paperback)
Abdellali Hajjat; Translated by Andrew Brown
R1,013 R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Save R192 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1983-as France struggled with race-based crimes, police brutality, and public unrest-youths from Venissieux (working-class suburbs of Lyon) led the March for Equality and Against Racism, the first national demonstration of its type in France. As Abdellali Hajjat reveals, the historic March for Equality and Against Racism symbolized for many the experience of the children of postcolonial immigrants. Inspired by the May '68 protests, these young immigrants stood against racist crimes, for equality before the law and the police, and for basic rights such as the right to work and housing. Hajjat also considers the divisions that arose from the march and offers fresh insight into the paradoxes and intricacies of movements pushing toward sweeping social change. Translated into English for the first time, The Wretched of France contemplates the protest's lasting significance in France as well as its impact within the context of larger and comparable movements for civil rights, particularly in the US.

Towards Industrial Freedom (Paperback): Edward Carpenter Towards Industrial Freedom (Paperback)
Edward Carpenter
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1917 in the midst of World War I, Carpenter argues that industry in pre-war Britain was simply exploitation of labour for private gain and attempts to look toward a future with more socialist values. The papers in this study explore the negative aspects of industrial life and suggest a new outlook with which the United Kingdom can move forward in industry. This title will be of interest to students of sociology.

Erotic Welfare - Sexual Theory and Politics in the Age of Epidemic (Paperback, New): Judith Butler, Maureen MacGrogan Erotic Welfare - Sexual Theory and Politics in the Age of Epidemic (Paperback, New)
Judith Butler, Maureen MacGrogan
R1,583 Discovery Miles 15 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Contents:
Part I: Erotic Welfare Editor's Introduction 1. Author's Introduction 2. Sex and Logic of Late Capitalism 3. Disciplining Pleasures 4. Regulating Women in the Age of Sexual Epidemic 5. Reproductive Regulations 6. Hospitalization and AIDS Part II: Selected Writings 1. Bodies, Pleasures -- Powers 2. Defusing the Canon 3. True Confessions 4. Interpretation and Retrieval: Rereading Beauvoir 5. Just Say No: Repression, Anti-Sex and the New Film 6. Feminism and Postmodernism Index

International Handbook on Responsible Innovation - A Global Resource (Hardcover): Rene Von Schomberg, Jonathan Hankins International Handbook on Responsible Innovation - A Global Resource (Hardcover)
Rene Von Schomberg, Jonathan Hankins
R7,311 Discovery Miles 73 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This Handbook constitutes a global resource for the fast-growing interdisciplinary research and policy communities that have taken on the challenge of driving innovation towards socially desirable outcomes. The collection brings together well-known authors from the USA, Europe, Asia and South Africa, developing conceptual and regional perspectives on responsible innovation including issues of governance, economics and ethics. The authors explore the prospects for the further implementation of responsible innovation in emerging technological practices in sectors from agriculture and health-care to nanotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence. The collection emphasises the socio-economic and normative dimensions of innovation, including issues of social risk and sustainability.

Doing without Free Will - Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems (Hardcover): Ursula Goldenbaum, Christopher Kluz Doing without Free Will - Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems (Hardcover)
Ursula Goldenbaum, Christopher Kluz; Contributions by J.Thomas Cook, Ursula Goldenbaum, Julia Haas, …
R2,470 Discovery Miles 24 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Doing without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems introduces Spinoza into the contemporary discussion on free will and on moral problems surrounding this discussion. Traditional Western moral philosophy, for the most part, has been built on the assumption of free will as a special human capacity to freely choose actions without being determined in that choice. This idea draws increasing critique, fueled recently especially by the ever new findings of neuroscience. But how can we develop a moral philosophy without free will? Spinoza faced a similar challenge when writing his Ethics during the rise of modern science and its deterministic model of nature and, for this reason, has much to offer the current discussion. Not only does he provide a foundation for understanding moral responsibility without free will, he also provides an explanation and solution to the classical problem of akrasia precisely because he argues the will is not free. He worked out an entirely new system of moral philosophy that can help resolve the meta-ethical dilemma between absolutism and relativism, showing how moral values evolve naturally within society. Despite denying the traditional God-like power of "free will" Spinoza developed a robust concept of freedom, one that is distinctly human and viable today. His modernity comes to light when we look at his answers to the much discussed questions whether it is possible or even desirable to develop objective instead of reactive attitudes toward our fellow human beings. His answers, perhaps surprisingly, resemble positions held by some contemporary philosophers.

Drowning Girls in China - Female Infanticide in China since 1650 (Paperback, New): D.E. Mungello Drowning Girls in China - Female Infanticide in China since 1650 (Paperback, New)
D.E. Mungello
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Although infanticide and child abandonment were worldwide phenomena from antiquity down to the nineteenth century when massive numbers of children were still being abandoned in Europe, China was unique in targeting girls almost exclusively. Yet despite its persistence for two thousand years, little has been published on a practice that is deeply sensitive within China and little understood by outsiders. Drawing on little-known Chinese documents and illustrations, noted historian D. E. Mungello describes the causes and continuation of female infanticide since 1650 despite efforts by Confucian moralists, Buddhist teachings, government officials, and even imperial edicts to stop the practice. The arrival of Christian missionaries led to foreign involvement as well, with Catholic priests baptizing abandoned and dying infants in Nanjing and Beijing beginning in the early 1600s. Mission efforts peaked in the nineteenth century when the European-based Society of the Holy Childhood urged Catholic children to contribute their pennies to help neglected children in China. However, most of the infant victims were drowned at birth in the privacy of their homes, thereby escaping the scrutiny of the law and the public. Mungello brings this secretive practice to light with a nuanced and balanced analysis of the cultural, economic, and social causes of early infanticide and its contemporary manifestation in sex-selected abortion as a result of the government's one-child policy. Presenting female infanticide as a human rather than a distinctly Chinese problem, he estimates the tragic loss of girls in the millions.

Slum Tourism - Poverty, Power and Ethics (Paperback): Fabian Frenzel, Ko Koens, Malte Steinbrink Slum Tourism - Poverty, Power and Ethics (Paperback)
Fabian Frenzel, Ko Koens, Malte Steinbrink
R1,576 Discovery Miles 15 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of 'otherness', 'moral decay', 'deviant liberty' or 'authenticity'. 'Slumming' has a long tradition in the Global North, for example in Victorian London when the upper classes toured the East End. What is new, however, is its development dynamics and its rapidly spreading popularity across the globe. Township tourism and favela tourism have currently reached mass tourism characteristics in South Africa and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In other countries of the Global South, slum tourism now also occurs and providers see huge growth potential. While the morally controversial practice of slum tourism has raised much attention and opinionated debates in the media for several years, academic research has only recently started addressing it as a global phenomenon. This edition provides the first systematic overview of the field and the diverse issues connected to slum tourism. This multidisciplinary collection is unique both in its conceptual and empirical breadth. Its chapters indicate that 'global slumming' is not merely a controversial and challenging topic in itself, but also offers an apt lens through which to discuss core concepts in critical tourism studies in a global perspective, in particular: 'poverty', 'power' and 'ethics'. Building on research by prolific researchers from ten different countries, the book provides a comprehensive and unique insight in the current empirical, practical and theoretical knowledge on the subject. It takes a thorough and critical review of issues associated with slum tourism, asking why slums are visited, whether they should be visited, how they are represented, who is benefiting from it and in what way. It offers new insights to tourism's role in poverty alleviation and urban regeneration, power relations in contact zones and tourism's cultural and political implications. Drawing on research from four continents and seven different countries, and from multidisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking volume will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics interested in this contemporary form of tourism.

Scandals in College Sports (Hardcover): Shaun R. Harper, Jamel K Donnor Scandals in College Sports (Hardcover)
Shaun R. Harper, Jamel K Donnor
R4,933 Discovery Miles 49 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Scandals in College Sports includes 21 classic and contemporary case studies and ethical dilemmas showcasing challenges that threatened the integrity and credibility of intercollegiate sports programs at a range of institutional types across the country. Cases cover NCAA policy violations and ethical dilemmas involving student-athletes, coaches, and other stakeholders, including scandals of academic misconduct, illegal recruiting practices, sexual assault, inappropriate sexual relationships, hazing, concussions, and point shaving. Each chapter author explores the details of the specific case, presents the dilemma in a broader sociocultural context, and ultimately offers an alternative ending to help guide future practice. This timely book highlights the impact that sports have on institutions of higher education and guides college leaders and educators in informed discussions of policy and practice.

Runaway Technology - Can Law Keep Up? (Hardcover): Joshua A. T. Fairfield Runaway Technology - Can Law Keep Up? (Hardcover)
Joshua A. T. Fairfield
R2,108 Discovery Miles 21 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a back seat to rampant technological change. To listen to Silicon Valley barons, there's nothing any of us can do about it. In this riveting work, Joshua A. T. Fairfield calls their bluff. He provides a fresh look at law, at what it actually is, how it works, and how we can create the kind of laws that help humans thrive in the face of technological change. He shows that law can keep up with technology because law is a kind of technology - a social technology built by humans out of cooperative fictions like firms, nations, and money. However, to secure the benefits of changing technology for all of us, we need a new kind of law, one that reflects our evolving understanding of how humans use language to cooperate.

Biotechnology, Education and Life Politics - Debating genetic futures from school to society (Paperback): Padraig Murphy Biotechnology, Education and Life Politics - Debating genetic futures from school to society (Paperback)
Padraig Murphy
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What should individuals and society do when genetic screening becomes widely available and with its impact on current and future generations still uncertain? How can our education systems around the world respond to these developments? Reproductive and genetic technologies (RGTs) are increasingly controversial and political. We are entering an era where we can design future humans, firstly, by genetic screening of "undesirable" traits or indeed embryos, but perhaps later by more radical genetic engineering. This has a profound effect on what we see as normal, acceptable and responsible. This book argues that these urgent and biopolitical issues should be central to how biology is taught as a subject. Debate about life itself has always been at the forefront of connected molecular, genetic and social/personal identity levels, and each of these levels requires processes of communication and debate, what Anthony Giddens called in passing life politics. In this book Padraig Murphy opens the term up, with examples from field research in schools, student responses to educational films exploring the future of RGTs, and science studies of strategic biotechnology and the lab practices of genetic screening. Life political debate is thoroughly examined and is identified as a way of connecting mainstream education of biology with future generations. Biotechnology, Education and Life Politics will appeal to post-graduates and academics involved with science education, science communication, communication studies and the sociology of education.

Global Bioethics and Human Rights - Contemporary Perspectives (Hardcover, Second Edition): Wanda Teays, Alison Dundes Renteln Global Bioethics and Human Rights - Contemporary Perspectives (Hardcover, Second Edition)
Wanda Teays, Alison Dundes Renteln
R2,221 Discovery Miles 22 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The ethical issues we face in healthcare, justice, and human rights extend beyond national boundaries-they are global and cross-cultural in scope. Editors Wanda Teays and Alison Dundes Renteln have assembled the works of an interdisciplinary, international team of experts in bioethics into a comprehensive, innovative and accessible book. It opens with theoretical frameworks that inform a global bioethics, followed by three units for an in-depth look at contemporary issues in the field. These are human rights, culture, and public health-with each unit including theoretical discussions and lively case studies. Topics range from torture and lethal injection to euthanasia, sex selection, vulnerable human subjects, to health equity, safety and public health, and environmental disasters like Bhopal, Fukushima, and more. The second edition includes new essays on Gender identity and reassignment Infectious diseases, vaccines and anti-vaccine campaigns Stem cell harvesting and usage Immigrant/refugee quarantine Bioterror and chemical weapons Medical tourism Xenotransplantation and bionic body parts Food and agriculture regulation and GMOs

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