Ethics category: 8196 books
The Evolution of Ethics
Human Sociality and the Emergence of Ethical Mindedness
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In this ground-breaking book, Aristotelian and evolutionary understandings of human social nature are brought together to provide an integrative, psychological account of human ethics. The book emphasizes the profound ways that human identity and action are immersed in an ongoing social world.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
The fifteen new essays collected in this volume address questions concerning the ethics of self-defense, most centrally when and to what extent the use of defensive force, especially lethal force, can be justified. Scholarly interest in this topic reflects public concern stemming from controversial...
by Christine Parker, Adrian Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
The third edition of Inside Lawyers' Ethics offers an engaging and practical examination of the moral and ethical dilemmas that legal professionals may encounter in a rapidly changing professional environment. The text provides comprehensive coverage and analysis of general philosophical approaches...
Revival: Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life (1908)
Volume I: Introduction: The Facts of Moral Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
It has been my object in the present work to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life. One reason for this procedure is my desire to conduct the reader by the same path that I myself have followed in approaching ethical questions.
Building the Moral Community
Radical Naturalism and Emergence
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Building the Moral Community: Radical Naturalism and Emergence demonstrates how very simple models of moral engagements based on natural, incomplete, value-laden frames of the world can lead to general moral progress for the human community. All moral behavior affects more than one person, which means...
Meaningful Work
Rethinking Professional Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2000
As commonly understood, professional ethics consists of shared duties and episodic dilemmas--the responsibilities incumbent on all members of specific professions joined together with the dilemmas that arise when these responsibilities conflict. Martin challenges this "consensus paradigm" as he rethinks...
Troubled Bodies
Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1995
Setting out the implications of the postmodern condition for medical ethics, Troubled Bodies challenges the contemporary paradigms of medical ethics and reconceptualizes the nature of the field. Drawing on recent developments in philosophy, philosophy of science, and feminist theory, this volume seeks...
by James B. Tubbs Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
The term bioethics was first used in the early 1970s by biologists who were concerned about ethical implications of genetic and ecological interventions, but was soon applied to all aspects of biomedical ethics, including health care delivery, research, and public policy. Its literature draws from disciplines...
Ethics is a Daily Deal
Choosing to Build Moral Strength as a Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
“Are you an ethical person?” Regardless of your answer, a follow-up probe might be: “How do you know?” Your personal values reflect your beliefs, what you care about. These values, if they really matter to you, are activated by and through your everyday decisions. How do you ensure that your...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This volume focuses on the ethical and philosophical issues that arise in an aging society, and the implications of these issues for healthcare and social policy. After a brief overview of biomedicine's changing approach of ageing and longevity and of the new expectations that these changes generate,...
Strange Bedfellows
How Medical Jurisprudence Has Influenced Medical Ethics and Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
The pervasive influence of law on medical practice and clinical bioethics is often noted with a combination of exasperation and lamentation. Physicians and non-physician bioethicists, generally speaking, consider the willingness of courts, legislatures, and regulatory agencies to insinuate themselves...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Animal cloning has developed quickly since the birth of Dolly the sheep. Yet many of the first questions to be raised still need to be answered. What do Dolly and her fellow mouse, cow, pig, goat and monkey clones mean for science? And for society? Why do so many people respond so fearfully to cloning?...
by Jong Yong Abdiel Foo, Stephen J. Wilson, Winston Gwee
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Over the last few decades, there are increasing public awareness of adverse events involving engineering failures that not only led to monetary losses but also more importantly, human injuries and deaths. Whilst it is vital for an engineering professional or student to acquire the necessary technical...
The Illusion of Trust
Toward a Medical Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is about trust and its implications for a medical theological ethics. Beginning with its earliest work, there has been attention to trust running through the bioethics literature in the United States, and much of this discussion has examined its theological elements. Clearly, trust is indispensable...