Ethical Issues & Debates

While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices hav...

While street prostitutes comprise only a small minority of sex workers, they have the highest rates of physical and sexual abuse, arrest and incarc...

While street prostitutes comprise only a small minority of sex workers, they have the highest rates of physical and sexual abuse, arrest and incarc...

Germany has been infamously dubbed the Brothel of Europe, but how does legalized prostitution actually work? Is it empowering or victimizing, reali...

How veterinarians and pet owners manage companion animal euthanasia.

Authors Marvin Olasky and Leah Savas detail the long history of abortion and its impact on American culture through vivid personal stories that hum...

In Rationality and Ritual, internationally renowned expert Brian Wynne offers a profound analysis of science and technology policymaking. By focusi...

What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups u...

In this book, eighteen Chinese women tell how they came to sell sex in Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei, Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Los Ang...

This book examines the question of what we mean when we talk about life, revealing new insights into what life is, what it does, and why it matters...

Laws subject people who perform sex work to arrest and prosecution.  The Compassionate Court? assesses two prostitution diversion programs (PDPs) t...

A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times journalist.This m...

Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations. Sam HarrisNeuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster and bestselling author Sam Harris, has...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The book opens up a space of frank discussion about the often unsettling, messy realities of ethical decision-making in the thick of social researc...

Based on ethnographic work with Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee in Sonagachi, the iconic red-light district in Kolkata, Prophylactic Rights exami...

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...

Why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying forMost men dont fear death. They fear those things the knife, the shipwreck, the i...

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a two-ton truck bomb that felled the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 p...

While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices hav...