Introducing applied ethics /
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| Imprint: | Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1995. |
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| Description: | x, 375 p. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1715358 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Ethical Theory and Ethical Practice
- Brenda Almond
- Part I. The Personal Dimension: Family and Relationships
- 1. Trouble with Familes
- Mary Midgley and Judith Hughes
- 2. Love and Personal Relationships
- 3. Between the Sexes: Care or Justice
- 4. Children Who Run: Ethics and Homelesness
- Part II. Public and Professional Dimensions: Ethics and the Professions
- 5. Education: Conserving Tradition
- 6. Ethics, Law and the Quality of the Media
- 7. Reconciling Business Imperatives and Moral Virtues
- 8. The Gene Revolution
- 9. Information and Accountability in Science
- 10. Psychiatry, Compulsory Treatment and the Value-Based Model of Mental Illness
- Part III. The Legal Dimensions: Crime and Punishment
- 11. Crime and Responsibility
- 12. Is Psychopathy a Moral Concept
- 13. Life, Death and the Law
- 14. Ethical Questions Facing Law Enforcement Agents
- Part IV. Economic and Political Dimensions: Politics and Society
- 15. Is Efficiency Ethical? Resource Issues in Health Care
- 16. Liberty or Community? Defining the Postmarxist Agenda
- 17. A Defence of Property Rights and Capitalism
- 18. Nationalism and Intervention
- Part V. International and Global Dimensions: Extending the Moral Community
- 19. Rich and Poor
- 20. War, Terrorism and Ethical Consistency
- 21. Enlarging the Community: Companion Animals
- 22. Ethics and the Environment: the Global Perspective
- Bibliographies
- Index