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Quality Of Life And Human Difference - Genetic Testing, Health Care, And Disability

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 Turns the perspectives of disability scholars on issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and philosophy, while angling philosophical policy analysis on problems that have largely been the province of disability scholarship.
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Reconceiving Pregnancy And Childcare - Ethics, Experience, And Reproductive Labor

by Amy (University Of Toronto) Mullin

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 This book argues for increased recognition of pregnancy, birthing and childrearing as social activities demanding simultaneously physical, intellectual, emotional and moral work from those who undertake them. Written from the perspective of a feminist philosopher, it seeks to increase dialogue between philosophers and childcare professionals, disability theorists, nurses and sociologists.
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Information Technology And Moral Philosophy

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 This book gives an in-depth philosophical analysis of moral problems to which information technology gives rise, for example, problems related to privacy, intellectual property, responsibility, friendship and trust, with contributions from many of the best-known philosophers writing in the area.
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Quality Of Life And Human Difference - Genetic Testing, Health Care, And Disability

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 Turns the perspectives of disability scholars on issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and philosophy, while angling philosophical policy analysis on problems that have largely been the province of disability scholarship.
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Risky Business - Genetic Testing And Exclusionary Practices In The Hazardous Workplace

by Elaine Draper

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 Professor Draper shows that a major shift has been taking place in the prevailing conception of risk in the workplace - from one that locates risk in working conditions to one that locates risk in workers themselves.
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Pursuing Equal Opportunities - The Theory And Practice Of Egalitarian Justice

by Lesley A. (York University, Toronto) Jacobs

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 This book offers original and innovative contributions to the debate about equality of opportunity. The author examines standardized tests, affirmative action, workfare, universal health-care, comparable worth, and the economic consequences of divorce.
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Justice For Here And Now

by James P. (University Of Notre Dame, Indiana) Sterba

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 James Sterba develops a conception of justice deriving from libertarianism and then applies it to a wide range of issues. This is a highly original and potentially controversial book that would be ideal for courses in applied ethics, political philosophy, environmental studies, women's studies, and peace studies.
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Information Technology And Moral Philosophy

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 This book gives an in-depth philosophical analysis of moral problems to which information technology gives rise, for example, problems related to privacy, intellectual property, responsibility, friendship and trust, with contributions from many of the best-known philosophers writing in the area.
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Privacy And Social Freedom

by Ferdinand David Schoeman

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 This book attacks the assumption found in much moral philosophy that social control as such is an intellectually and morally destructive force.
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Violence, Terrorism, And Justice - Conference : Papers

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 Might there not be some justification in terrorists targeting certain victims but not others? In this volume a group of distinguished moral and social thinkers address the urgent problem of terrorism.
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Drugs And Rights

by Douglas N. (Rutgers University, New Jersey) Husak

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 Do adults have the right to use drugs for recreational purposes? This was the first serious work to address the question, and argues that the 'war on drugs' violates the rights of adults wanting to use drugs for pleasure, and that criminal laws against this use are incompatible with moral rights.
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Understanding Ethical Failures In Leadership

by Terry (University Of Richmond) Price

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 Price brings a multi-disciplinary approach to an understanding of why leaders fail ethically in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He argues that leaders acknowledge moral requirements but are mistaken as to their applicability and relevance in particular situations, allowing themselves exceptions to this rule.
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The Frankenstein Syndrome - Ethical And Social Issues In The Genetic Engineering Of Animals

by Bernard E. (Colorado State University) Rollin

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 This book is a philosophically sophisticated and scientifically well-informed discussion of the moral and social issues raised by genetically engineering animals, a powerful technology which has major implications for society. Bernard Rollin is both a professor of philosophy, and physiology and biophysics, and writes from a uniquely well-informed perspective on this topic.
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Utilitarianism As A Public Philosophy

by Robert E. (Australian National University, Canberra) Goodin

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 Robert E. Goodin, a philosopher with many books on political theory, public policy and applied ethics to his credit, defends utilitarianism against its critics and shows how it can be applied most effectively over a wide range of public policies.
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Justice And Justification - Reflective Equilibrium In Theory And Practice

by Norman (Tufts University, Massachusetts) Daniels

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 This wide-ranging collection of essays by one of the foremost medical ethicists in the USA explores the claim that justification in ethics, whether of matters of theory or practice, involves achieving coherence between our moral and non-moral beliefs.
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Democracy And The Mass Media - A Collection Of Essays

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 A group of distinguished legal and political theorists and experts on journalism discuss how US policy issues treat government regulation of the media and how newspapers and television are regulated differently. This is a book for anyone seriously interested in the rights to free speech and expression in technologically advanced societies.
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Drugs And Rights

by Douglas N. (Rutgers University, New Jersey) Husak

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 Do adults have the right to use drugs for recreational purposes? This was the first serious work to address the question, and argues that the 'war on drugs' violates the rights of adults wanting to use drugs for pleasure, and that criminal laws against this use are incompatible with moral rights.
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Nuclear Deterrence And Moral Restraint - Critical Choices For American Strategy

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 This important collection of essays brings together the work of prominent philosophers, political scientists, policy analysts, and defence consultants. It takes as its point of departure two central tendencies in current nuclear strategy: mutual assured destruction (MAD) and nuclear utilization target selections (NUTS).
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Public Education In A Multicultural Society - Policy, Theory, Critique

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 This important collection of essays offers a sustained philosophical examination of fundamental questions raised by multicultural education in primary and secondary schools. The essays focus on both theory and policy.
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Morality, Prudence, And Nuclear Weapons

by Steven P. (Hobart And William Smith Colleges, New York) Lee

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 This 1993 book is the first post-Cold War assessment of nuclear deterrence. It provides a comprehensive normative understanding of nuclear deterrence policy, examining both its ethical and strategic dimensions.
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The Ethics Of Assistance - Morality And The Distant Needy

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 As globalization has deepened worldwide economic integration, moral and political philosophers have become increasingly concerned to assess duties to help needy people in foreign countries. The essays in this volume present ideas on this important topic by authors who are leading figures in these debates.
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Cost-Value Analysis In Health Care - Making Sense Out Of Qalys

by Erik (National Institute Of Public Health, Oslo) Nord

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 This book is a comprehensive account of what it means to try to quantify health in distributing resources for health care. Erik Nord presents an approach called cost-value analysis in which samples of the general public express preferences between different health-care programs.
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Veil Politics In Liberal Democratic States

by Ajume H. (University Of Massachusetts, Boston) Wingo

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 In this exciting account of the development and sustainability of the liberal democratic state, Ajume H. Wingo argues that it is non-rational factors that more often than not provide the real source of motivation. Wingo demonstrates that these 'veils' can play an essential role in a thriving liberal democratic state.
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The Ethics Of Aid And Trade - U.S. Food Policy, Foreign Competition, And The Social Contract

by Paul B. (Texas A & M University) Thompson

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 In this 1991 book about the principles of the US agricultural policy and foreign aid, Professor Thompson focuses his argument on protectionist challenges to foriegn aid and development assistance programmes.
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