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...