Ethics category: 8196 books
Ethics in Healthcare
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Structured around eight chapters, this book introduces ethical theory and practice to healthcare students and professionals, including medicine, nursing, public health, dentistry, and research.
Increasingly, students and professionals within healthcare are faced with difficult questions and...
by Ezio Di Nucci
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Ethics Without Intention tackles the questions raised by difficult moral dilemmas by providing a critical analysis of double effect and its most common ethical and political applications. The book discusses the philosophical distinction between intended harm and foreseen but unintended harm. This...
by Jeff Noonan
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Current patterns of global economic activity are not only unsustainable, but unethical - this claim is central to Materialist Ethics and Life-Value. Grounding the definition of ethical value in the natural and social requirements of life-support and life-development shared by all human beings, Jeff Noonan...
Are Workarounds Ethical?
Managing Moral Problems in Health Care Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
How work gets done in complex health care systems is ethically important. When health care professionals and other staff are pressured to improvise, fix structural problems, or comply with competing policies, the uncertainty and distress they experience have potential consequences for patients, families,...
Canned Heat
Ethics and Politics of Global Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Climate change is a key challenge in the contemporary world. This volume studies climate change through many lenses: politics, law, ethics, philosophy, religion, and contemporary art and culture. The essays explore alternatives for sustainable development and highlight oft-overlooked issues, such...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
The ethics of climate governance is of critical importance to current debates in climate justice, yet until now it has been largely neglected. This book explores the ethical dimensions of bringing the threat of global warming under effective political control. It addresses problems of domination and...
by Vesselin Popovski
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This book examines an interesting and relatively understudied area of the evolution of the international rule of law and the role of professional ethics. The rule of law has been gradually developed and promoted at the national level over centuries, however at the international level it has only recently...
The Ethics of Species
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
We are causing species to go extinct at extraordinary rates, altering existing species in unprecedented ways and creating entirely new species. More than ever before, we require an ethic of species to guide our interactions with them. In this book, Ronald L. Sandler examines the value of species and...
The Ethics of Doping and Anti-Doping
Redeeming the Soul of Sport?
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical and provocative critique of current anti-doping policy and practice, Verner Møller argues that the fight against doping – promoted as an initiative to cleanse sport of cheats – is...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This volume addresses a range of philosophical and ethical issues in adapted physical activity and disability sports participation more broadly. It is comprised of a range of essays by international scholars whose backgrounds embrace different traditions of philosophy, pedagogy and adapted physical...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In the United States roughly 2 million people are incarcerated; billions of animals are held captive (and then killed) in the food industry every year; hundreds of thousands of animals are kept in laboratories; thousands are in zoos and aquaria; millions of "pets" are captive in our homes. Surprisingly,...
Buddhism and Postmodernity
Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist Postmodern Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Buddhism and Postmodernity is a response to some of the questions that have emerged in the process of Buddhism's encounters with modernity and the West. Jin Y. Park broadly outlines these questions as follows: first, why are the interpretations and evaluations of Buddhism so different in Europe (in...
Corporate Sustainability, Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
An Introduction to Theory and Practice with Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This book provides a concise and authoritative guide to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and related paradigms, including environmental responsibility, corporate sustainability and responsibility, creating shared value, strategic CSR, stakeholder engagement, corporate citizenship, business ethics...
Seeking Adam Smith
Finding The Shadow Curriculum of Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
"A needed and overdue corrective, this book should be essential reading for business and economics scholars and for anyone interested in these subjects."
Kirkus Reviews
Seeking Adam Smith provides a fascinating insider's explanation for why business school faculty members,...