Hastings Center Series in Ethics – serie
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Abortion: Understanding Differences
Av Sidney Callahan, Daniel Callahan
Häftad, 2011
568 kr
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SIDNEY CALLAHAN AND DANIEL CALLAHAN This book, like many other things to do with abortion, is a product of long controversy. Though carried out with cooperation, it was conceived in conflict. The conflict between the coeditors has per sisted for years-in fact, for at least half of their …
Who Speaks for the Child?
The Problems of Proxy Consent
Av Willard Gaylin, Ruth Macklin
Inbunden, 1982
1089 kr
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Mental Retardation and Sterilization
A Problem of Competency and Paternalism
Av Ruth Macklin, Willard Gaylin
Häftad, 2012
1129 kr
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1 This book is the product of a one-year project conducted by the Hastings Center, Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, during 1976-1977. The Behavior Control Research Group-an ongoing, interdisciplinary working group com posed of philosophers, psychiatrists, psychologists, social …
Ethics Teaching in Higher Education
Av Daniel Callahan, Sissela Bok
Häftad, 2011
552 kr
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A concern for the ethical instruction and formation of students has always been a part of American higher education. Yet that concern has by no means been uniform or free from controversy. The centrality of moral philosophy in the undergraduate curriculum during the mid-19th Century gave way later …
Roots of Ethics
Science, Religion, and Values
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
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OUR AGE IS CHARACTERIZED by an uncertainty about the na ture of moral obligations, about what one can hope for in an afterlife, and about the limits of human knowledge. These uncertainties were captured by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason, where he noted three basic human questions: …
Darwin, Marx and Freud
Their Influence on Moral Theory
Av Arthur L. Caplan, Bruce Jennings
Häftad, 2012
1129 kr
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hope of obtaining a comprehensive and coherent understand ing of the human condition, we must somehow weave together the biological, sociological, and psychological components of human nature and experience. And this cannot be done indeed, it is difficult to even make sense of an attempt to do …
Applying the Humanities
Av Daniel Callahan, Arthur L. Caplan m. fl.
Inbunden, 1985
1089 kr
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Representation and Responsibility
Exploring Legislative Ethics
Av Bruce Jennings, Daniel Callahan
Inbunden, 1985
1630 kr
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Violence and the Politics of Research
Av Willard Gaylin, Ruth Macklin m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
1129 kr
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This volume is one outcome of a two-year study conducted by the Behavioral Studies Research Group of The Hastings 1 Center. It is divided into three parts to reflect the several facets of the interdisciplinary project from which it stems. In the opening chapter Willard Gaylin and Ruth Macklin, who …
Ethics in Hard Times
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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There is widespread agreement among large segments of western society that we are living in a period of hard times. At first glance such a belief might seem exceedingly odd. After all, persons in western society find themselves living in a time of unprecedented material abundance. Hunger and …
In Search of Equity
Health Needs and the Health Care System
Av Ronald Bayer
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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I Several years ago, when the Carter administration announced that it would support congressional action to end the public fund ing of abortions, the President was asked at a press conference whether he thought that such a policy was unfair; he responded, "Life is unfair." His remarks provoked a …
Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis
Av Daniel Callahan, Bruce Jennings
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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The social sciences playa variety of multifaceted roles in the policymaking process. So varied are these roles, indeed, that it is futile to talk in the singular about the use of social science in policymaking, as if there were one constant relationship between two fixed and stable entities. …
