Ethical Issues & Debates

From renowned legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein, a concise, case-by-case guide to resolving free-speech dilemmas at colleges and universities.Free spe...

Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, thought crimes are punishable by law, and your own feelings c...

An up-close look at how porn permeates our culture Pictures of half-naked girls and women can seem to litter almost every screen, billboard, and a...

This book challenges many suppositions surrounding sex tourism, suggesting that elderly males who seek romance and are caught up in their fantasies...

If you want to understand American lobbying today, you should research the way it was done in earlier times. A great place to start is the late 19t...

The concept of evolution has evolved over time. This is the conclusion reached by Carlo Bellieni and Lourdes Velàzquez, examining the biological an...

In From Back Alley to the Border, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers p...

Sex Work in Popular Culture delves into provocative movies, TV shows, and documentaries about sex work produced in the last fifteen years a period...

Contemporary audiences are often shocked to learn that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, medical students around the world posed for photo...

Food trucks announcing halal proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch? Here Middle Eas...

Assisted Dying is an ethnographically-based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast as a way of e...

Assisted Dying is an ethnographically based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Floridas Gold Coast as a way of ex...

An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at one of Americas most controversial experiments in police surveillance.    In 2020, the Baltimore Police Depa...

A provocative exploration of the witches-and witch hunts-in the untold history of abortion, from the days of Socrates through the Salem Witch Trial...

Does the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus? Must the law of abortion presume an answer to the question of when per...

Immigration is a key concern in British society; however, the ethical implications of the issue are often overlooked. Produced by Theos, a leading ...

Most of us are far from perfect in virtue. But even those who come far closer to perfect virtue than most of us--people like Mother Theresa, Martin...

Food trucks announcing halal proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch? Here Middle Eas...

Why is the Catholic Church against the death penalty? This second edition of Bruggers classic work Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Trad...

This book puts CGTN (formerly CCTV-News) and the BBCs international television news head-to-head, interrogating competing truths in the exacting bu...

After centuries of neglect, the ethics of food are back with a vengeance. Justice for food workers and small farmers has joined the rising tide of ...

An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleevs periodic table of elements, bringing together elemental ...

'The book I didn't know I'd been waiting for - a fascinating trip through time and space, likening the uncanniness of A.I. not to science fiction b...

How can we have meaningful public conversations in the algorithmic age? This book explores how digital technologies shape our opinions and interac...

How can we have meaningful public conversations in the algorithmic age? This book explores how digital technologies shape our opinions and interac...

What role do science and technology play in society? What is the nature of expert knowledge? What is sciences relation to democracy? This introduc...

What role do science and technology play in society? What is the nature of expert knowledge? What is sciences relation to democracy? This introduc...

These are some of the urgent questions posed by this stimulating and wide-ranging new colloquy. Bringing together a wealth of wisdom and experience...

What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist democracy? While much of the critical discussion of the media in authoritarian...

What would it mean to get over slavery? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of ...

The growing mobility of people within and into the Asia Pacific region has created environments of increasing diversity as nations become hosts to ...

Yan Lianke is a world-renowned author of novels, short stories, and essays whose provocative and nuanced writing explores the reality of everyday l...

The abortion debate has returned. More than forty years have passed since the landmark decision Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the United...

This is a life-changing book. Read it three times and then give a copy to anyone you care about. It will make things better Seth Godin, author of ...

Advances in computer science, artificial intelligence and data management have made engineering a dynamic and rapidly expanding industry. But have ...