Ethical Issues & Debates

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...