Ethical Issues & Debates

Series: Themes in Canadian Sociology The only Canadian text to examine the intersection of technology and society through theories and real-world ...

New Fifth Edition Now Available!Principles of Meat Science provides a comprehensive overview that includes the latest discoveries and principles th...

A provocative manifesto on what it means for women to be good and what happens when we stop. 'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to liv...

Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the internation...

With surveillance at work extending into the home and the deployment of AI in the workplace already rapidly expanding, concerns have been raised ab...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to w...

What does it mean to practice youth work ethically? How does ethical theory relate to the youth work profession? What are the moral dilemmas confro...

This is a book that should set off needed conversations in every school and classroom and school board meetingand the dinner table. Sometimes I wan...

What does it mean to practice youth work ethically? How does ethical theory relate to the youth work profession? What are the moral dilemmas confro...

This fresh, confident second edition expands its focus on the theoretical and practical aspects of doing qualitative research in light of new ethic...

In this winter issue we look at taboos all over the world from Bangladesh to Britain. Writers include comedians David Baddiell and Shazia Mirza, Al...

This fresh, confident second edition expands its focus on the theoretical and practical aspects of doing qualitative research in light of new ethic...

Should sport be above politics and human rights? As London gets ready for the Olympics, Index on Censorship visits the ethical pit stops, asks whet...

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...

Index on Censorship hits 40 with a special anniversary issue featuring its finest contributors. From celebrated Russian author Mikhail Bulgakovs di...

This book analyses recent moves in the debate over human enhancement from two different perspectives: moral philosophy and science. It contains not...

The book presents an important and well known but so far not described episode in the history of banned books in the communist Poland the activity...

The role of the Hague Convention in today's world revisited. Significant attention today focusses on heritage destruction, but the key internation...

The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties in the United States...

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

The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century examines the shifts that have taken place in the funeral industry since 1900, foc...

Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and behav...

Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Although Roe v. Wade identified ab...

In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions d...

Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication,...

A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, inc...

Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct En...

The traditional definition of development ethics considers the 'ethical and value questions posed by development theory, planning and practice' (Go...

People professions - such as social work, teaching, nursing, ministry and counselling - are at heart ethical or moral enterprises. Much recent theo...

Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in part...

AS RECOMMENDED ON THE TROJAN HORSE AFFAIR PODCASTWhy are Muslim men portrayed as inherently violent? Does the veil violate women's rights? Is Islam...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers a ...