Research Catalog

Title

Introducing applied ethics / edited by Brenda Almond.

Publication

Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Almond, Brenda.

Description

x, 375 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This timely collection of introductory essays provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to and survey of the major moral debates of today. The text follows a logical development from the more personal and immediate concerns of the individual to the broadest and most extensive practical applications of contemporary ethical theory - including the public, medical, professional, legal, social, political and global dimensions. Topics covered include families, love, gender, children, education, the media, business, genetics, science, psychiatry, crime, death, police, health care, liberty, property, capitalism, nationalism, wealth, war, terrorism, animal rights and the environment. This lively and important volume gives readers exactly what they need to understand and evaluate the diversity of ethical arguments and debates. Each chapter is supplemented by comprehensive notes, a reading guide and a bibliography. Written by leading ethicists and moral philosophers, it provides the ideal basis for an introductory course in applied ethics.

Subject

• Applied ethics
• Ethics
• Angewandte Ethik
• Einführung
• Ethiek

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : ethical theory and ethical practice / Brenda Almond -- Trouble with families? / Mary Midgley and Judith Hughes -- Love and personal relationships / Paul Gregory -- Between the sexes : care or justice? / Moira Gatens -- Children who run : ethics and homelessness / Michael Parker -- Education : conserving tradition / John Haldane -- Ethics, law and the quality of the media / Andrew Belsey -- Reconciling business imperatives and moral virtues / Jennifer Jackson -- The gene revolution / Ruth Chadwick -- Ethical decision-making in science and technology / Dick Holdsworth -- Psychiatry, compulsory treatment and the value-based model of mental illness / K.W.M. Fulford -- Crime and responsibility / Henry Tam -- Is psychopathy a moral concept? / Michael Bavidge and Andrew J. Cole -- Life, death, and the law / Robert Campbell -- Ethical questions facing law enforcement agents / John Kleinig -- Is efficiency ethical? Resource issues in health care / Donna Dickenson -- Liberty or community? Defining the post-Marxist agenda / Brenda Almond -- A defence of property rights and capitalism / Tibor R. Machan -- Nationalism and intervention / C.A.J. Coady -- Rich and poor / Jennifer Trusted -- War, terrorism and ethical consistency / Gerry Wallace -- Enlarging the community : companion animals / Stephen R.L. Clark -- Ethics and the environment : the global perspective / Robin Attfield.

ISBN

• 0631193898
• 9780631193890
• 063119391X
• 9780631193913

LCCN

94033508

OCLC

• ocm31133286
• 31133286
• SCSB-2049465

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library