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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Argumentation in Science Education

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

Beauty’s Appeal : Measure and Excess

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

Being Apart from Reasons

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

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 ...

Blameworthy Belief

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

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 ...

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 ...

Competence and Vulnerability in Biomedical Research

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

Corporate Ethics and Corporate Governance

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

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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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