The Oxford handbook of practical ethics / edited by Hugh LaFollette.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 772 pages)

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Series
Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]
Summary note
This is a guide to contemporary thought on ethical issues in all areas of human activity - personal, medical, sexual, social political, judicial, and international, from the natural world to the world of business.
Notes
Originally published: 2003.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Part I. Our personal lives. Sexuality / Nancy Tuana and Laurie Shrage
  • Love / Neera K. Badhwar
  • Family / Brenda Almond
  • Part II. Moral status. Children / David Archard
  • Abortion / John Harris and Søren Holm
  • Reproductive technology / Robert Wachbroit and David Wasserman
  • Animals / R.G. Frey
  • Environmental ethics / Kristin Shrader-Frechette
  • Part III. Equality. Gender and sexual discrimination / Rosemarie Tong
  • Race and racial discrimination / Naomi Zack
  • Affirmative action / Walter Feinberg
  • People with disabilities / Anita Silver
  • Part IV. The just society. Punishment / R.A. Duff
  • Freedom of speech and religion / Andrew Altman
  • Legal paternalism / Douglas N. Husak
  • Multiculturalism / John Arthur
  • Economic justice / Jonathan Wolff
  • Intergenerational justice / Axel Gosseries
  • Privacy / Anita L. Allen
  • Corporate responsibility / Patricia H. Werhane and R. Edward Freeman
  • Whistleblowing / Michael Davis
  • Part V. Justice and international relations. Immigration / Chandran Kukathas
  • National autonomy / Wayne Norman
  • International economic justice / Debra Satz
  • World hunger / Nigel Dower
  • pt. VI. Life and death. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Margaret P. Battin
  • Capital punishment / Hugo Adam Bedau
  • War / Henry Shue.
Other title(s)
  • Handbook of practical ethics
  • Practical ethics
ISBN
  • 9780191577291
  • 0191577294
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