Ethical Issues & Debates

A powerful and moving novel from 1921, about the lives and choices of modern women, by Canadian author Marjorie Grant. Latchkey ladies live alone o...

In Erotic Exchanges, Nina Kushner reveals the complex world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris by focusing on the professional mistr...

Copying is bad. So we are told, from school to the workplace. Gaining money or honour by stealing someone else''s work is morally despicable and fo...

Most people agree that animals count morally. But how, exactly, should we take animals into account? According to a prominent position in contempor...

It seems that just about every new technology that we bring to bear on improving our lives brings with it some downside, side effect or unintended ...

Following the dramatic events of July 2016, the global spotlight has fallen on Turkey's increasingly authoritarian government, led by President Rec...

'Priestdaddy caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017' Vogue 'Glorious' Sunday Times'Laugh-out-loud funny' The Times'Extraordinary' O...

Texas prosecutors are powerful: in cases where they seek capital punishment, the defendant is sentenced to death over ninety percent of the time. W...

The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004 by John ...

Combining thought-provoking graphic imagery with truly alarming information culled from some of the most authoritative sources around the world, Th...

This book explores the profound effect that our upbringing has on our adult lives. Friedman skilfully explores the way that lifestyles choices refl...

A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we re providing them wi...

Anthony Comstock was Americas first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comst...

A wide-ranging history of assisted reproductive technologies and their ethical implications.Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in History of...

Hed been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didnt know him at all When everything seemed to be falling apa...

In Becoming Friends of Time, John Swinton crafts a theology of time that draws us toward a perspective wherein time is a gift and a calling. Time i...

The use of animals in research has always been surrounded by ethical controversy. This book provides an overview of the central ethical issues focu...

We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a...

As a pioneer of the modern legal novel and a criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, includin...

Male sex work generates sales in excess of one billion dollars annually in the United States. Recent sex scandals involving prominent leaders and g...

As Kenyan women traditionally have fewer formal employment opportunities, often occupying lower-paid jobs in the informal sector, the experiences o...

Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. ...

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 ...

During the last decades, sociologists and urban geographers developed a substantial corpus of studies on the spatial organisation of sex markets in...

Sex trafficking is a state crime. Nevertheless, it is also a federal crime when it involves conducting the activities of a sex trafficking enterpri...

In Erotic Exchanges, Nina Kushner reveals the complex world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris by focusing on the professional mistr...

This is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally. Bringing together perspectives from a ri...

Sex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a stor...

Sex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a stor...

This modern classic of LGBT writing includes an introduction from Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties, and a new afterword f...

San Franciscos Queen of Vice uncovers the story of one of the most skilled, high-priced, and corrupt abortion entrepreneurs in America. Even as Pro...

Sex for Sale in Scotland examines the various formal and informal methods that were used to police female prostitution in Edinburgh and Glasgow bet...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. While the debate on regulating prostitution usually focuses on national policy, it is local policy me...

When you are fifteen years old and destitute, too unskilled to work and too young to claim unemployment benefit, your body is all you have left to ...

Human trafficking is a thriving and growing business; by some estimates it is second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable illegal indust...