Ethical Issues & Debates

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...

Why free speech is the lifeblood of colleges and universitiesFree speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, with critics on and of...

In this issue of Index on Censorship magazine, authors from around the world including the former Observer literary editor Robert McCrum, and Oxfor...

Our special report looks at freedoms to study and research around the world, with reports from Turkey, South Africa and China, along with new ficti...

It isn''t enough to celebrate the death penalty''s demise. We must learn from it.When Henry McCollum was condemned to death in 1984 in rural North ...

Free Expression and Democracy takes on the assumption that limits on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a weakening of democ...

Free Expression and Democracy takes on the assumption that limits on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a weakening of democ...

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the st...

When it first appeared in 1979, the Williams Report on Obscenity and Film Censorship provoked strong reactions. The practical issues and political ...

It is easy to forget that the death penalty was an accepted aspect of Canadian culture and criminal justice from Confederation until 1976. The Prac...

Imperial Germany''''s governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral...

Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taki...