Ethics category: 8196 books
Islamic Bioethics
Current Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Islamic Bioethics presents a wide variety of perspectives and debates on how Islamic societies deal with the ethical dilemmas raised by biomedicine and new technologies.
The book is a "constructive dialogue" between contributors selected from a multidisciplinary group of Muslim and...
by Andrew Kim
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
This introduction provides a comprehensive overview of the development of Catholic ethics in the wake of the Second Vatican Council (1962–5), an event widely considered crucial to the reconciliation of the Catholic Church and the modern world. Andrew Kim investigates Catholic responses to questions...
by Andrew McCosh
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Financial Ethics presents an exploration of this relatively new subject. The book will follow two different trails, which eventually are brought together. The first trail is an exploration in Chapters One and Two of the general nature of the finance industry, of the institutions which make it up,...
by Robin Gill
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Robin Gill's A Textbook of Christian Ethics continues to be popular with students and lecturers - it is difficult to find another textbook in the field that combines primary texts with extensive analysis and commentary. This 4th edition has been extensively revised and it incorporates up-to-date developments...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book provides novel perspectives on the ethical justifiability of assisted dying. Seeking to go beyond traditional debates on topics such as the value of human life and questions surrounding intention and causation, this volume promises to shift the terrain of the ethical debates about assisted...
by Margaret P Battin, Leslie P Francis, Jay A Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Bioethics emerged at a time when infectious diseases were not a major concern. Thus bioethics never had to develop a normative framework sensitive to situations of disease transmission. The Patient as Victim and Vector explores how traditional and new issues in clinical medicine, research, public...
Law and Ethics in Complementary Medicine
A handbook for practitioners in Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
'A valuable resource for those in clinical practice and students undertaking primary and secondary qualifications in the complementary medicine and therapy disciplines.' Caroline Smith, Professor, Complementary Medicine Research, National Institute of Complementary Medicine, Western Sydney University
Comprehensive,...
Medical Ethics Today
The BMA's Handbook of Ethics and Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals. The new edition updates the information from both the legal and...
by Norman E. Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
It is more important than ever that a business must be both ethical and profitable. In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition, Norman E. Bowie shows that by applying Kant's three formulations of the categorical imperative, and by doing the right thing for the right reason, a business can...
Virtuosity in Business
Invisible Law Guiding the Invisible Hand
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The recent global financial crisis raises pressing issues that are not exclusively economic. The health of the economy, Kevin T. Jackson contends, reflects the moral health of the wider culture: ethics must be considered along with economics to understand world markets, especially now that globalization...
Practical Consultancy Ethics
Professional Excellence for IT and Management Consultants
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Consultants - working for an organization but not as part of it - are particularly subject to commercial pressures from both their employers and their clients, never more so than when consulting on complex and costly IT engagements. A consultant's reputation is crucial to their professional capital,...
Resisting Corporate Corruption
Cases in Practical Ethics From Enron Through The Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Resisting Corporate Corruption teaches business ethics in a manner very different from the philosophical and legal frameworks that dominate graduate schools. The book offers twenty-eight case studies and nine essays that cover a full range of business practice, controls and ethics issues. The essays...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
In every culture, ethos is an important aspect of life as it informs opinions on nearly everything from law to religion. However, while the existence of ethos may be universal, the details often vary from culture to culture. Ethical Standards and Practice in International Relations is an essential...
Business Ethics for a Material World
An Ecological Approach to Object Stewardship
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Increasingly, conscientious consumers and green marketers are recognizing that material things, not firms, must be made responsible. Even so, many scholars in ethics, sustainability, and governance focus on people and organizations, ignoring the flows of things. In this book, Ryan Burg argues that...