Ethical Issues & Debates

Colin Farrelly contemplates the various ethical and social quandaries raised by the genetic revolution. Recent biomedical advances such as genetic ...

Colin Farrelly contemplates the various ethical and social quandaries raised by the genetic revolution. Recent biomedical advances such as genetic ...

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WORLD IS FLATWe all sense it: something big is going on. Life is speeding up, and it is diz...

The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive c...

A guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers. This book offers the first comprehe...

THE TERRIFYING FACT IS THIS: Huntington's disease leads to physical and mental deterioration. There is no cure. It is handed down genetically, with...

Deepfake technology can create video evidence of just about anything: Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie in an orgy.Chinese president Xi Jinping dec...

In Industry Unbound, Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy. With research ...

In this fascinating follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless use...

By the end of this century, living beyond 100 will be the rule rather than the exception. What medical breakthroughs and new technologies will make...

We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what ...

The coronavirus pandemic has made society's relationship with death and dying everybody's business. We have had to confront new challenges around t...

This book presents two systems of censorship and literary promotion, revealing how literature can be molded to support authoritarian regimes. The i...

How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these pere...

WikiLeaks is famous-or infamous-for publishing secret material, including classified government documents, confidential videos and emails, and info...

A professor of architecture at Cambridge University, Marcial Echenique, recently became curious when he found wiring concealed under the floorboard...

Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passé theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between ...

The issue of physician-assisted death is now firmly on the American public agenda. Already legal in five states, it is the subject of intense publi...

Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great po...

Decisions about life-sustaining treatment are often ethically challenging for patients, surrogate decision-makers, and health care professionals. P...

How would you like to die? This is the question Craig Schonegevel's brave life anddeath challenge us to ask of ourselves and the society we live in...

Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forens...

Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all ...

A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the first freedom, free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a ...

Since August 2020, the intimidation of witnesses and journalists has surged in Sri Lanka. Twelve Cries from Home navigates the memories and stories...

A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world.For the 150 years that Hong...

A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post onlineand the large societal impact of these decisions M...

Enforcing and Eluding Censorship: British and Anglo-Italian Perspectives brings together a wide range of current work on literary, cultural and lin...

In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. W...

A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in ChinaAs authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technol...