Ethical Issues & Debates

Taking a unique approach that emphasizes careful reasoning, this cutting-edge reader is structured around twenty-seven landmark arguments that have...

Can a boy be trapped in a girls body? Can modern medicine reassign sex? Is our sex assigned to us in the first place? What is the most loving respo...

After being forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy, Julian Assange is now in a high security prison in London where he faces extradition to t...

When the Turks demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Is...

When the Turks demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Is...

An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonmentDespite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits Congress from abridging freedom of the press. But, as the printed press has been transformed...

In the mental health field, ethical guidelines are strictly enforced to ensure healthy, appropriate, effective, and productive counselor-client rel...

Pregnancy is a period of time that institutes great change in the lives of those who are pregnant. Regardless of whether a pregnancy concludes with...

In the eighteen years since Ivan Illichs death, David Cayley has been reflecting on the meaning of his friend and teachers life and work. Now, in I...

Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologi...

A philosophical task force explores how AI is revolutionizing our lives - and what moral problems it might bring, showing us what to be wary of, an...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title in Economics 2023. In this stimulating analysis, Hannes Gerhardt outlines the potentials and challenges of a te...

States increasingly delegate regulatory and police functions to Internet intermediaries. The delegation is achieved by providing an incentive in th...

Captivated at a young age by Russia, Marianna Tax Choldin immersed herself as a student at the University of Chicago in that country's language and...

This is a surreal time for freedom of speech. While the legal protections of the First Amendment remain strong, the culture is obsessed with punish...

The case for assisted suicide can seem so compelling. Surely it can't be wrong to help desperate people to kill themselves? Don't we have a right t...

This volume unites ethicists and social scientists to contribute to a new type of technology ethics. Cooperation with scientists makes it possible ...

Abortion is a contentious issue in social life but it has rarely been subjected to careful scrutiny in the social sciences. While the legalization ...

Abortion is a contentious issue in social life but it has rarely been subjected to careful scrutiny in the social sciences. While the legalization ...

Meet Leela: nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken. With her sharp wit and stubborn optimism, she is the best paid bar dancer on Bombay's n...

This book traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the n...

The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detai...

National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s,...

This book investigates the nature of curbs and censorship imposed by successive governments on the press during British rule in India, and during t...

Are you feeling shocked, betrayed, devastated, and downright angry after discovering your husband is addicted to pornography? Are you wondering: ho...

In the wake of intense globalisation and commercialisation in the 1990s, China saw the emergence of a vibrant popular culture. Drawing on sixteen y...

How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both...

This text provides empirical research on some of the most controversial media issues of our times. The first chapter investigates such issues as th...

The torments of the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed our medical system and steered the way to the unprecedented introduction of the COVID-19 vaccine,...

It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access ...

The recent socio-political changes in Nepal have brought assimilationist notions of Nepali nationalism under a tight scrutiny and drawn attention t...

An eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medical progress, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wa...

It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access ...

Ive played serial killers, rapists, racists, Klansmen, sexual harassers, thievesI mean, lets face it. Ive played a LOT of Democrats. Nick Searcy ...

Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under g...

An Irish Times and The i Book of 2022'Tense and intimate . . . an education' - Geoff Dyer'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending. A wonder' ...