Ethical Issues & Debates

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 ...

Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under g...

An Irish Times and The i Book of 2022'Tense and intimate . . . an education' - Geoff Dyer'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending. A wonder' ...

Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers...

Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source sof...

Contraceptive sex, wrote social science researcher Mary Eberstadt in 2012, is the fundamental social fact of our time. In this important and pointe...

This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam's sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, a...

On July 26, 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) with the purpose of soli...

Does the public trust science? Scientists? Scientific organizations? What roles do trust and the lack of trust play in public debates about how sci...

Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about po...

Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about po...

Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campai...

This new collection explores for the first time male sex work from a rich array of perspectives and disciplines. It aims to help enrich the ways in...

Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption...

The Right to Life under International Law offers the first-ever comprehensive treatment under international law of the foundational human right to ...

In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the ...

A practical, user-friendly handbook for understanding and protecting our personal data and digital privacy.  Our Data, Ourselves addresses a common...