Ethical Issues & Debates

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' ...

Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers...

Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source sof...

Contraceptive sex, wrote social science researcher Mary Eberstadt in 2012, is the fundamental social fact of our time. In this important and pointe...

This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam's sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, a...

On July 26, 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) with the purpose of soli...

Does the public trust science? Scientists? Scientific organizations? What roles do trust and the lack of trust play in public debates about how sci...

Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about po...

Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about po...

Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campai...

This new collection explores for the first time male sex work from a rich array of perspectives and disciplines. It aims to help enrich the ways in...

Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption...

The Right to Life under International Law offers the first-ever comprehensive treatment under international law of the foundational human right to ...

In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the ...

A practical, user-friendly handbook for understanding and protecting our personal data and digital privacy.  Our Data, Ourselves addresses a common...

Practicing chemists face a number of ethical considerations, from issues of attribution of authorship through the potential environmental impact of...

How far are we willing to go in the name of better sport? Athletes have long sought to push the limits of human potential, but the advent and ap...

Public health is diffuse, divided, and poorly understood. As a policy and practice, public health promotes and protects people and communities. As ...

Public health is diffuse, divided, and poorly understood. As a policy and practice, public health promotes and protects people and communities. As ...

Honoré Daumier (180879), who was imprisoned early on for a politically offensive cartoon, painted scenes from seventeenth-century theatre and liter...

Honoré Daumier (180879), who was imprisoned early on for a politically offensive cartoon, painted scenes from seventeenth-century theatre and liter...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Transhumanism is a philosophy which advocates for the use of technology to radically enh...

A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next? Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated...

Discover the true genius behind history's greatest madmen. From Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. Jekyll, the image of the mad scientist surrounded by gl...

There is ample evidence that engaging developing countries on climate change mitigation would have significant, positive impacts on global climate ...

Women today are more equal than at any other time in American history. The #MeToo movement has transformed American workplaces. Christian power is ...

Women today are more equal than at any other time in American history. The #MeToo movement has transformed American workplaces. Christian power is ...

Freedom, truth, and justice are taken for granted in some countries. In others, they are aspirational. And yet in others, they are deemed justifica...