Ethical Issues & Debates

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

Winner, Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2021 Sexuali...

A compendium of creative strategies for building the world we want, this book . . . models the myriad ways that people can make a difference in the...

The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way anxieties over globali...

Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. This book interrogates what is at stak...

Journalist Allum Bokhari has spent four years investigating the tech giants that dominate the Internet: Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter. He has ...

Free Expression and Democracy takes on the assumption that limits on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a weakening of democ...

'Vital and heart-wrenchingly intimate' Leah Hazard'Urgent, fascinating and thought-provoking' Julia Bueno'Thoughtfully researched and beautifully w...

'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?'One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching qu...

An Open Letters Monthly Best Nonfiction Book of the YearAmericas criminal justice system is broken. The United States punishes at a higher per capi...

Explores the historical development and severe ramifications of America's strict abortion regulations.Nearly one in four women in the United States...

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In this volume such institutional sites as the media, literature, art, psychoanalysis, and medicine, and cultural practices around disease, death a...

Forgiveness is a lovely idea, wrote C. S. Lewis, and in recent decades it has been seen and admired in situations ranging from therapy to politics,...

What distinguishes humanity from artificial beings? What do constructed creatures tell us about ourselves? From sex dolls to Siri, talking Barbies...

In his 1862 eulogy for Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson reflected that his friend dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields,...

What is surveillance, and why should we care? Why are those who use technology susceptible to being both agents and targets of contemporary surveil...

At a time when far, radical, and extreme-right politics are becoming increasingly mainstream globally sometimes with deadly consequences research...

A TIMES BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning Financial Times columnist exposes the threat that Big Tech poses to our democracies,...

The brutal murders of young Devon and Damon Routier in the early morning hours of June 6, 1996, put their motherDarlie Routierat the heart of one o...

This book focuses on human trafficking in Europe for labour and sexual exploitation. It includes empirical work on trafficking throughout Europe, i...

Masculine Identities and Male Sex Work Between East Java and Bali introduces the reader to the stories of young male sex workers in South Bali. The...

What would it mean to get over slavery? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of ...

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations...

Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clari...

Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI an...

Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinat...

How does film and video censorship operate in Britain? Why does it exist? And is too strict? Starting in 1979, the birth of the domestic video indu...

This book examines the most recent and contentious issues in relation to cybercrime facing the world today, and how best to address them. The contr...

Privacy is gravely endangered in the digital age, and we, the digital citizens, are its principal threat, willingly surrendering it to avail oursel...

Revised to reflect the latest edition of the American Psychological Associations (APA) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, Cel...