Ethical Issues & Debates

This is a surreal time for freedom of speech. While the legal protections of the First Amendment remain strong, the culture is obsessed with punish...

The case for assisted suicide can seem so compelling. Surely it can't be wrong to help desperate people to kill themselves? Don't we have a right t...

This volume unites ethicists and social scientists to contribute to a new type of technology ethics. Cooperation with scientists makes it possible ...

Abortion is a contentious issue in social life but it has rarely been subjected to careful scrutiny in the social sciences. While the legalization ...

Abortion is a contentious issue in social life but it has rarely been subjected to careful scrutiny in the social sciences. While the legalization ...

Meet Leela: nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken. With her sharp wit and stubborn optimism, she is the best paid bar dancer on Bombay's n...

This book traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the n...

The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detai...

National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s,...

This book investigates the nature of curbs and censorship imposed by successive governments on the press during British rule in India, and during t...

Are you feeling shocked, betrayed, devastated, and downright angry after discovering your husband is addicted to pornography? Are you wondering: ho...

In the wake of intense globalisation and commercialisation in the 1990s, China saw the emergence of a vibrant popular culture. Drawing on sixteen y...

How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both...

This text provides empirical research on some of the most controversial media issues of our times. The first chapter investigates such issues as th...

The torments of the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed our medical system and steered the way to the unprecedented introduction of the COVID-19 vaccine,...

It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access ...

The recent socio-political changes in Nepal have brought assimilationist notions of Nepali nationalism under a tight scrutiny and drawn attention t...

An eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medical progress, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wa...

It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access ...

Ive played serial killers, rapists, racists, Klansmen, sexual harassers, thievesI mean, lets face it. Ive played a LOT of Democrats. Nick Searcy ...