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The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics is a lively and authoritative guide to current thought about ethical issues in all areas of human activity--personal, medical, sexual, social, political, judicial, and international, from the natural world to the world of business. Twenty-eight topics are covered in specially written surveys by leading figures in their fields: each gives an authoritative map of the ethical terrain, explaining how the debate has developed in recent years, engaging critically with the most notable work in the area, and pointing directions for future work.
The Handbook will be essential reading, and a fascinating resource of ideas and information, for academics and students across a wide range of disciplines.
The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics is a lively and authoritative guide to current thought about ethical issues in all areas of human activity--personal, medical, sexual, social, political, judicial, and international, from the natural world to the world of business. Twenty-eight topics are covered in specially written surveys by leading figures in their fields: each gives an authoritative map of the ethical terrain, explaining how the debate has developed in recent years, engaging critically with the most notable work in the area, and pointing directions for future work.
The Handbook will be essential reading, and a fascinating resource of ideas and information, for academics and students across a wide range of disciplines.
I. Our Personal Lives1: Nancy Tuana and Laurie Shrage:
Sexuality
2: Neera K. Badhwar: Love
3: Brenda Almond: Family
II. Moral Status4: David Archard: Children
5: John Harris and Soren Holm: Abortion
6: Robert Wachbroit and David Wasserman: Reproductive
Technology
7: R. G. Frey: Animals
8: Kristin Shrader-Frechette: Environment
III. Equality9: Rosemarie Tong: Gender and Sexual
Discrimination
10: Naomi Zack: Race and Racial Discrimination
11: Walter Feinberg: Affirmative Action
12: Anita Silvers: People with Disabilities
IV. The Just Society13: R. A. Duff: Punishment
14: Andrew Altman: Freedom of Speech and Religion
15: Douglas N. Husak: Legal Paternalism
16: John Arthur: Multi-culturalism
17: Jonathan Wolff: Economic Justice
18: Alex Gosseries: Inter-generational Justice
19: Anita L. Allen: Privacy
20: R. Edward Freeman and Patricia H. Werhane: Corporate
Responsibility
21: Michael Davis: Whistleblowing
V. Justice and International Relations22: Chandran Kukathas:
Immigration
23: Wayne Norman: National Autonomy
24: Debra Satz: International Economic Justice
25: Nigel Dower: World Hunger
VI. Life and Death26: Margaret P. Battin: Euthanasia and Physician
Assisted Suicide
27: Hugo Adam Bedau: Capital Punishment
28: Henry Shue: War
Hugh LaFollette is Cole Chair in Ethics at the
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.
...it is a substantial addition to an increasingly important sub-discipline of moral philosophy ... a valuable resource for professional philosophers, lawyers, and policymakers. Kimberley Brownlee, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy LaFollette has done an excellent editorial job ... Sturdily bound and an easily-usable size, this is a particularly attractive work for the practitioner's desk, as well as for the reference shelves of any college and university library. Reference Reviews The Handbook succeeds in providing the busy practitioner and the interested academic with a topical glimpse of the "what" and "how" of dealing with some of the most important and ineluctable ethical dilemmas we face. Reference Reviews
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