Ethical issues and debates Books

Originally published in 1986, Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine was the first book to look at abortion from the perspective of physicians in private practice. Jonathan B.

This book offers an examination of physician-assisted death, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative care and sedation until death.

Winner of the 2022 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award!Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America lays out the results of nearly two decades of research on racial profiling in retail settings.Gabbidon and...

If books didn't matter, nobody would try to ban them.In a nation struggling to cope with polarization, disinformation, acrimony, the power of books-to inform, enlighten, and inspire-is more important than ever. To honor Joyce Meskis, the legendary...

"The Future Equation: Balancing Humanity and Technology" is a collection of essays that navigate the complexities of technology's influence on society and humankind. This thought-provoking book examines the transformative impact of emerging innovations...

Discover the intersection of philosophy, ethics, and psychology in this comprehensive guide. Explore the historical context of ethical issues in mental health, learn about major theories in moral philosophy, and navigate ethical decision-making in...

You won't be able to stop reading once you pick up Dr. John Hall's terrifying account, A New Breed: Satellite Terrorism in America. Dr. Hall's narration is based on true-life events and what you'll find will open your eyes to a completely new form of...

Confused. Scared. Pressured. Alone. That's what so many of the women and men in these true stories felt when faced with an unexpected pregnancy. Many believed they had no alternative but to abort their child, while others made the difficult decision to...

This book brings together work on the low fertility countries of East Asia with an analysis of trends in fertility, what we know about their determinants and consequences, the policy issues and how these are being addressed in the various countries.

To everyone who knows her, 28-year-old Marcia Gold leads the perfect life.  A high school guidance counselor in 1980 Brooklyn, New York who specializes in helping pregnant teens, Marcia thrives in her work. She also has a handsome, successful...

In the "Covert Colonization of Our Solar System" is revealed how the military Industrial Complex of the U.S. was taken over by the same Nazis brought in after World War II in "Operation Paperclip". This takeover, among other things, resulted in a large...

Ethical Engineering: A Practical Guide with Case Studies provides detailed and practical guidance in making decisions about the many ethical issues practicing engineers may face in their professional lives. It outlines a decision-making procedure and...

Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign 'silence' is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within...

"I profeti dell'agenda" è un libro che descrive l'attuale situazione geopolitica, come l'agenda 2030 stia avanzando per privare i cittadini delle loro libertà e imporre un nuovo ordine mondiale schiavizzante. Tutto questo è...

"Judith Arcana's remarkable feat in Hello. This is Jane. is to paint, tile by tile, a complex mosaic of compelling linked stories- children's playgrounds and adult tattoo parlors, ill-advised lovers and underground abortion activists. In the mainstream...

Springtime for Snowflakes: "Social Justice" and Its Postmodern Parentage is a daring and candid memoir. NYU Professor Michael Rectenwald – the notorious @AntiPCNYUProf – illuminates the obscurity of postmodern theory to track...

Throughout modern history, the Garden of Eden narrative has been viewed through the blurred lenses of tradition and science by both sides of the apologetic debate. In this comprehensive study, Collins challenges readers to look at human origins with a...

An intellectual property discussion is central to qualitative research projects, and ethical guidelines are essential to the safe accomplishment of research projects. Undertaking research studies without adhering to ethics may be dangerous to researchers...

"I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent; I never will acquiesce or submit to authority, nor will I make peace with a system which degrades woman to a mere incubator and which fattens her on innocent...

Very timely, not just in terms of addressing the impact of Web 2.0 on social movements and activism, but also in that it addresses and soberly assesses the use of technology from recent protests in North Africa and elsewhere' - Stephen Duncombe,...

Why is it that our highly-interconnected and globalized world seems more chaotic and dangerous than ever? Have you ever wondered why the world seems to lurch from seemingly unconnected crisis to crisis? From the pandemic to climate change and net-zero...

Derrière les belles paroles de l'agenda 2030 se cache un plan, un plan dictatorial qui éliminera progressivement vos droits et libertés. Dans ce livre, je dis la vérité sur tout ce qui s'est passé en...

But...You Don't Know My Story explores the deeply personal experiences of women navigating the complex terrain of abortion. Through the intimate narratives of women who share their personal experiences, Dr. Barbara Crawford unveils the emotional,...

Dietrich von Hildebrand’s The Encyclical Humanae Vitae: A Sign of Contradiction was published mere months after Pope Paul VI promulgated the eponymous encyclical. The much-anticipated encyclical quickly proved to be among the most contentious papal...

The Rise and Fall of the Techno-Messiah is an insightful perspective on the impact of the technological revolution on humanity. This work tackles the multifaceted world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), algorithms, and eugenics. Most significantly, The...

The digital era has redefined our understanding of ethics as a multi-disciplinary phenomenon. The newness of the internet means it is still highly unregulated, which allows for rampant problems encountered by countless internet users. In order to...

The notion of surveillance has become increasingly more crucial in public conversation as new tools of observation are obtained by many different players. The traditional notion of "overseeing" is being increasingly replaced by multi-level surveillance...

In 1925, the Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española) betrayed its protégé, the Castilian language, which has always been —and continues to be— the most widely used Spanish language used...

 Beyond the Internet examines the technological dimension of the recent wave of protest movements in United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Ireland. Offering an opportunity to achieve a better understanding of the dynamics between...

The Terri Schiavo case was a key battle in a larger political struggle over abortion, stem-cell research, physician-assisted suicide, gay rights, and the appointment of federal judges. The religious Right chose to make it a national spectacle because...

Behind the fine words of the 2030 Agenda lies a plan, a dictatorial plan that will gradually eliminate your rights and freedoms. In this book, I tell the truth about everything that has happened with the pandemic and what will happen in a short time...

Deploying empirical studies spanning from early Imperial China to the present day, 17 scholars from across the globe explore the history of surveillance with special attention to the mechanisms of power that impel the concept of surveillance in society...

This book looks at the trajectories of reproduction and abortion rights in diverse socio-cultural contexts in various countries, and the regional concerns which animate these discourses.Abortion as practice and rhetoric has historically drawn attention...

Informed at their twenty week ultrasound that their daughter had the debilitating condition called spina bifida, Anthony Horvath and his wife were offered the 'opportunity' to 'terminate.' Termination is a euphemism for abortion, a more polite and...

This book focuses on news silence in Zimbabwe, taking as a point of departure the (in)famous blank spaces (whiteouts) which newspapers published to protest official censorship policy imposed by the Rhodesian government from the mid-1960s to the end of...

Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance presents the first detailed study of the relationship between poetry and surveillance. It critically examines the close connection between American lyric poetry and a burgeoning US state...

Pregnancy is a right, a privilege and the only natural means by which we are on this planet, and yes, children are blessings. As women are contributors to life, their natural nurturers of life and living. Women's contributions are as valuable and as...

The book titled ""Declaration Of The Friends Of The Liberty Of The Press: Assembled At The Crown And Anchor Tavern (1793)"" is a collection of speeches and declarations made by Thomas Erskine and other supporters of the freedom of the press. The book...

This book introduces the idea of anthroponomy - the organization of humankind to support autonomous life- as a response to the problems of today's purported "Anthropocene" age. It argues for a specific form of accountability for the redressing of...

Imperial Germany's governing elite frequently sought to censor literature that threatened established political, social, religious, and moral norms in the name of public peace, order, and security. It claimed and exercised a prerogative to intervene in...

Censorship and all it implies in terms both of our historical understanding and of issues of enormous moment in contemporary life defies brief definition because it is an idea that always engages our prejudices, penetrates to the dim regions where our...