Ethics category: 8196 books
Dental Ethics at Chairside
Professional Obligations and Practical Applications, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In the last two decades, more than ever before dentists must determine how to properly maintain their focus on ethics and professionalism in the face of powerful commercial pressures. While there is encouragement for ethical conduct within the dental profession, there is still relatively little...
by Paul Formosa
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In this volume Paul Formosa sets out a novel approach to Kantian ethics as an ethics of dignity by focusing on the Formula of Humanity as a normative principle distinct from the Formula of Universal Law. By situating the Kantian conception of dignity within the wider literature on dignity, he develops...
Spinoza's 'Ethics'
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
The Ethics is one of the undisputed masterworks of early modern philosophy. In this single volume Spinoza offers the reader an unorthodox account of God, a novel version of the mind-body relation, a systematic theory of the emotions and a detailed prescription for human virtue and blessedness. Too...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Contemporary discussions about the nature of leadership abound. But what constitutes a good leader? Are ethics and leadership even compatible?
Accounts of leadership often lie at either end of an ethical spectrum: on one end are accounts that argue ethics are intrinsically linked to leadership;...
Ethics after Anscombe
Post “Modern Moral Philosophy”
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
How, if at all, can we do moral philosophy in the light of the radical critique made by Elizabeth Anscombe in "Modem Moral Philosophy"? Among the principal theses of this essay is that ethical thinking (that of philosophers and others) suffers from a widespread appeal to incoherent uses...
Legislating Medical Ethics
A Study of the New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Can medical ethics be legislated? Can a complex bioethical question be definitively answered through legislation? In July 1987 the New York State legislature experimented with legislating medical ethics by amending the state's public health law to regulate `Do Not Resuscitate' orders. The consequent...
Taking Life
Three Theories on the Ethics of Killing
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
When and why is it right to kill? When and why is it wrong? Torbjörn Tännsjö examines three theories on the ethics of killing in this book: deontology, a libertarian moral rights theory, and utilitarianism. The implications of each theory are worked out for different kinds of killing: trolley-cases,...
Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter
A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health...
Order Ethics or Moral Surplus
What Holds a Society Together?
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Christoph Luetge takes on a fundamental problem of contemporary political philosophy and ethics. He questions the often implicit assumption of many contemporary political philosophers according to which a society needs its citizens to adopt some shared basic qualities, views or capabilities (here...
by Jan Österberg, Erik Carlson, Ryszard Sliwinski
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
This posthumous publication attempts to answer the question of what moral code is the most reasonable. Philosophers often turn to consequentialism or deontological ethics to address this issue. As the author points out, each has valid arguments but each is unable to get the other side to agree. To...
The Skill of End-of-Life Communication for Clinicians
Getting to the Root of the Ethical Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
With a focus on end-of-life discussion in aging and chronically ill populations, this book offers insight into the skill of communicating in complex and emotionally charged discussions. This text is written for all clinicians and professionals in the fields of healthcare and public health who are...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2019
The Business and Society (BAS) 360 book series is an annual publication targeting cutting-edge developments in the broad business and society field, such as stakeholder management, corporate social responsibility and citizenship, business ethics, sustainability, corporate governance and others. Each...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
This book brings together the refereed proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE) 'Applied Ethics in the Fractured State', held at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney in June 2017. The...
Renewing the Stuff of Life
Stem Cells, Ethics, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2007
Stem cell therapy is ushering in a new era of medicine in which we will be able to repair human organs and tissue at their most fundamental level- that of the cell. The power of stem cells to regenerate cells of specific types, such as heart, liver, and muscle, is unique and extraordinary. In 1998...