Ethical Issues & Debates

In Rescuing Humanity, Willem H. Vanderburg reminds us that we have relied on discipline-based approaches for human knowing, doing, and organizing f...

In the world of Facebook, Twitter and Yelp, water-cooler conversations with co-workers and backyard small talk with neighbors have moved from the p...

Chapters 5, 12, and 18 of this work are available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International open access licence. These parts of the work a...

This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures, looking at how both external f...

What Morality Means examines the scientific theory of morality, drawing on zoological and physiological literatures in addition to contemporary soc...

Fracking is a novel but contested energy technology so what makes some countries embrace it whilst others reject it? This book argues that the rea...

One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israe...

From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes read...

New York Times BestsellerHow far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?According to the establishment media, the intellig...

'There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies's achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of father...

Anne of France (1461-1522) composed these lessons - presented as a portrait of an ideal princess - as guidance in negotiating the pitfalls facing a...

This Eden is a smart modern-day adventure reminiscent of both the cyber noir novels of William Gibson and the golden age of espionage fiction.'An i...

What is it like to work in a place that is both a thriving and close-knit community and a globally recognised part of the commercial sex industry? ...

In recent decades, the level of moral acceptability of choice at the end of life has reached record highs. Legislative responsiveness to public opi...

First full-length study of attitudes to abortion in the early medieval west. When a Spanish monk struggled to find the right words to convey his u...

What role does ethics play in modern-day warfare? Is it possible for ethics and militarism to exist hand-in-hand? James Eastwood examines the Israe...

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The dream of control over human behaviour is an old dream, shared by many cultures. This fascinating account of the histories of human engineering ...

Non-elected actors, such as non-governmental organizations and celebrity activists, present themselves as representatives of others to audiences of...

George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western socie...

Which practices count as resistance? Why, where, and how does resistance emerge? When is resistance effective, and when is it truly progressive? In...

The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside wa...

EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Money is central to capitalism and to our many sustainability crises. Could we remak...

Sexuality is a basic feature of human life. Gender, sexual and romantic attraction, sexual excitement, and sexual desire and fantasies all move in ...

This book identifies risk and protective factors influencing routes into, through and out of sexual exploitation and sex work. It explores how the ...

Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically ...

Free Speech on Americas K12 and College Campuses: Legal Cases from Barnette to Blaine covers the history of legal cases involving free speech issue...

One in three women in Britain have an abortion. For such a common procedure, it has not been the subject of a dedicated book of poetry - not, at le...

The Welfare of Animals used in Research: Practice and Ethics gives a complete and balanced overview of the issues surrounding the use of animals in...

Obscenity is central to an understanding of medieval culture, and it is here examined in a number of different media. Obscenity is, if nothing els...

Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examina...

Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands brings into conversation the distinct fields of tafsr (Qur'anic exegesis) studies and women's studies by exp...

This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar...

This book provides an international, multi-disciplinary empirical account of pole classes and how they fit into wider discourses about bodies and g...

*Winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize 2022* In Ireland, 2018, a constitutional ban that equated the life of a woman to the life of a fertili...

This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contribut...

In First Principles, Alessandra Lemma examines the centrality of applied ethics to psychoanalytic practice, The book focuses on the articulation of...

Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research...

Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research...

Lyombe Eko carries out an historical and cultural survey of the regulation of visual depictions of explicit human sexual conduct from their earlies...

Despite the existence of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child there still exists a debate on whether children can really hold rights. This ...

This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual ...

This book is part of a two volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular c...

How people move from deviant to conventional lifestyles is an issue that has attracted considerable interest over the past few years. However, much...