In this excellent anthology, leading experts examines all sides of this thorny issue. Besides age-old questions surrounding the death penalty, some of the articles also address the impact of new advances in DNA technology.
What is it like to experience disability? What are the prevailing cultural attitudes toward those who experience disability? How do social norms and public policies affect those experiencing disability? This book provides an introduction to the wealth of social, political, and ethical debates that surround the disabled.
Focusing on the debate that centres on the teaching of Intelligent Design (ID) versus conventional evolutionary theory, this book contains articles from the proponents of both sides of this issue. It also includes a section on the origins of the debate with excerpts from the writings of Charles Darwin and William Paley.
Contains articles on the connection between morality and the law by such thinkers as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cass R Sunstein, and others. This book focuses on issues of morality and lawyering by looking at such questions as how lawyers should represent clients with whom they disagree ethically and how defence lawyers can represent guilty clients.
Addresses the conflict between the protection of civil liberties and the maintenance of national security in the face of terrorist threats. Aiming to make a balanced presentation of the issues, this collection of articles contains selections ranging from the ACLU's critique of the USA Patriot Act to a defense by its chief architect.
Presents a selection of the diverse, and most argued, positions advocated by academics, politicians, journalists, attorneys, judges, and activists, on the issue of same-sex marriage.
Since 1997, when Oregon enacted a law permitting physician-assisted suicide, the public debate over end-of-life issues has turned in a new direction. The result has been renewed emphasis on hospice, palliative care, the spiritual needs of the dying, and on advanced directives to settle legal matters. This book addresses these four critical issues.
Deals with the controversial abortion issue. This work includes essays and excerpts from landmark Supreme Court decisions, covering the history of abortion in the pre-Roe period; creative responses to the problem of abandoned infants; abortion in relation to Constitution, feminism and Christianity; and moral issues surrounding this controversy.
The transformation of society brought about by the wide dispersion of computers has given rise to moral dilemmas. This is a collection of twenty-six essays, which offer answers to the ethical questions raised by the interaction of people and computers.