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A Life (Un)Worthy of Living

This book presents the findings of a study into the social shaping of reproductive genetics in Germany and Israel, two exceptionally ...

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A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty

This book is open access under a CCBY license. This book investigates child poverty from a philosophical perspective. It ...

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978-1-4020-3982-9
Action and Responsibility

What makes an event count as an action? Typical answers appeal to the way in which the event was produced: e.g., perhaps ...

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978-1-4020-6921-5
Altering Nature : Volume One: Concepts of ‘Nature’ and ‘The Natural’ in Biotechnology Debates

Volume One, Concepts of 'Nature' and 'The Natural' in Biotechnology Debates, offers nuanced accounts of the ways that ...

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978-1-4020-6923-9
Altering Nature :Volume Two: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy

The two volumes of Altering Nature consider the complex ways that concepts of 'nature' and 'the natural' are understood ...

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978-1-4020-8619-9
Animal Welfare : Competing Conceptions and Their Ethical Implications

The thesis of this book is that members of what I shall call the “animal welfare science community,”3 which includes ...

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978-1-137-55697-4
Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain

This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings ...

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Argumentation in Science Education

This book brings together the work of leading experts in argumentation in science education. It presents research combining ...

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978-1-4020-6521-7
Beauty’s Appeal : Measure and Excess

Beauty fulfils human existence. As it registers in our aesthetic experience, beauty enhances nature’s enchantment around ...

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978-1-4020-4283-6
Being Apart from Reasons

The book presents objections to the most common response given by contemporary legal and political theorists to the moral ...

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978-3-540-26951-9
Bioethics in a Small World

Bioethics has addressed many of the issues that arise in the context of globalisation. This book presents the results of ...

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978-1-4020-5961-2
Blameworthy Belief

Believing the wrong thing may sometimes have drastic consequences. The question as to when a person is not only ill-guided, ...

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978-981-16-0654-0
Chasing the Chinese Dream Four Decades of Following China’s War on Poverty

This book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society ...

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978-1-4020-6757-0
China: Bioethics, Trust, and The Challenge Of The Market

This volume provides a unique perspective on the market reforms currently taking place in Chinese health care. The authors ...

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978-1-4020-8604-5
Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research

In this book, the author develops a novel justificatory framework for making judgments of decisional competence to consent ...

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978-3-540-70818-6
Corporate Ethics and Corporate Governance

This book represents an introduction to and overview of the diverse aspects of the ethical challenges confronting companies ...

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978-1-4020-8401-0
Cutting-edge issues in Business Ethics : Continental Challenges to Tradition and Practice

This volume is one of the very few publications dedicated to the challenges that Continental philosophy poses to the field ...

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978-1-4020-5662-8
Democracy in an Age of Globalisation

In Democracy in an Age of Globalisation, Otfried Höffe develops a comprehensive analysis of the demands, which the process ...

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978-1-4020-5945-2
Education in the Era of Globalization

Education seems to have lost its orientation in Western culture and is in disarray all over the globe in time of global transitions. ...

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978-1-4020-5214-9
Efficiency, Justice and Care

This book attempts to answer the question how health care can be incorporated into a comprehensive theory of justice, while ...

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