Ethical Issues & Debates

Despite being dubbed the worlds oldest profession, prostitution has rarely been viewed as a legitimate form of labour. Instead, it is often crimina...

Many women throughout the world face the challenge of confronting an unexpected or an unwanted pregnancy, yet these experiences are often shrouded ...

In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in Canada v. Bedford that key prostitution laws were unconstitutional. The decision provoked wide interest but lit...

In the 1980s, the Ontario Board of Censors began to subject media artists work to the same cuts, bans, and warning labels as commercial film. Rulin...

How technology transformed the nature of sex work The internet has revolutionized sex work perhaps more than any other profession. Todays sex worke...

Drawing from extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, this book explores the beliefs, motivations and practices of UK ...

Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countri...

Every month, a ragtag group of Londoners gather in the site known as Crossbones Graveyard to commemorate the souls of medieval prostitutes believed...

The latest volume of Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations addresses a range of contemporary issues in applied and professional ethics and ex...

The complex relationship between technology and social outcomes is well known and has recently seen significant attention due to the deepening of t...

Though literature and censorship have been conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection seeks to understand the degree to which they have be...

In Bedford, the Supreme Court struck down prohibitions against communicating in public for the purpose of sex work, living on its avails, and worki...

Across the globe, educators are grappling with how best to prepare a new generation to engage the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first ...

Arguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asia...

With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing q...

A new edition of a groundbreaking, feminist defense of pornography as free speech Named a Notable Book by The New York Times Book Review in 1995, D...

Birth control offers women the opportunity to prevent pregnancy, plan and space their births, or have no births at all. And yet, in the United Stat...

In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linke...

You think you're fuckin' better than me? A dead girl's words haunt a detective's broken life as he struggles to find her killer. Returning to wo...

A first-hand account of the death penalty's wholly destructive nature. In Witness, Lyle C. May offers a scathing critique of shifts in sentencing l...

Honorable Mention, 2024 Outstanding Book Award, given by the American Society of Criminology's Division of International Criminology An in-depth p...

A Wolfson History Prize FinalistA New Statesman Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the YearTimely and authoritativeI enjoyed it immensely.Phili...

By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France's Third Republic, S...

Is travel inherently beneficial to human character? Does it automatically educate and enlighten while also promoting tolerance, peace, and understa...

Ethics in Counseling and Therapy develops ethical competence through an understanding of theory. Using a multidisciplinary theoretical framework th...

Privacy matters because it shields us from possible abuses of power. Human beings need privacy just as much as they need community. Our need for so...

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...

In recent years, UN agencies, global tech corporations, states and humanitarian NGOs have invested in advanced technologies from smart borders to d...

In this book, faith leaders, scholars and activists from around the globe provide their perspective on faith and abortion. They reflect on examples...

It is a serious mistake to think that all we need for a just world is properly-structured organizations. But it is equally wrong to believe that al...

In the United States, the right to choose an abortion is the law of the land. But what if a woman continues her pregnancy because she didnt really ...

A rigorous and defiant collection that subverts contemporary discourse and representations of incarceration, of hip-hop, and of Asian American cult...

Explores the historical roots of controversies over abortion, fetal personhood, miscarriage, and maternal mortality.On June 24, 2022, the US Suprem...

What are the contexts (political, social, legal, cultural) of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe? Given the abolition of state-sanct...

During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expans...

Throughout history society has determined specific rules of engagement between adversaries in armed conflict. With advances in technology, from ar...

The surrogacy industry is worth an estimated 1 billion dollars a year, and many of its surrogates work in terrible conditions, while many gestate b...

A new look at the last four decades of the abortion law and its effects from a young conservative. Abortion was legalized with the Roe v. Wade Supr...

We are currently riders of the information storm. AI fascinates us, images mesmerize us, data defines us, algorithms remember us, news bombards us,...

There is a deep distrust of experts in America today. Influenced by populist politics, many question or downright ignore the recommendations of sci...

Abortion Care as Moral Work brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and...