Applied ethics : a multicultural approach / edited by Larry May, Shari Collins-Chobanian, Kai Wong.

Other author May, Larry.
Other author Collins, Shari.
Other author Wong, Kai.
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoUpper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©1998.
Descriptionxii, 654 pages : map ; 24 cm
Subjects

Uniform titleApplied ethics (May)
Contents Preface -- Introduction -- Antiracism, Multiculturalism, and Interracial Community: Three Educational Values for a Multicultural Society -- Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation -- I. Human Rights and Justice -- United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Utilitarianism -- A Simplified Account of Kant's Ethics -- Taking Rights Seriously -- Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights -- Islam, Islamic Law, and the Dilemma of Cultural Legitimacy for Universal Human Rights -- The African Context of Human Rights -- Rites as Rights: The Confucian Alternative -- A Buddhist Response to the Nature of Human Rights -- II. Environmental Ethics -- The Land Ethic -- A "Good" Environment: Just One of the Set of Human Objectives -- Look to the Mountain: Reflections on Indigenous Ecology -- On the Environmental Ethics of the Tao and the Ch'i -- Environmental Racism, American Indians, and Monitored Retrievable Storage Sites for Radioactive Waste -- Development, Ecology, and Women -- III. Hunger and Poverty -- Carrying Capacity as an Ethical Concept -- Population: Delusion and Reality -- Famine, Affluence, and Morality -- Rights and the Duty to Bring Aid -- On the Obligation to Keep Informed about Distant Atrocities -- Making Peace with the Earth: Indigenous Agriculture and the Green Revolution -- IV. War and Violence -- Just War Theory -- The Practice of Satyagraha -- Terrorism and Morality -- Can Terrorism Be Justified? -- A Women's Politics of Resistance -- Letter from the Birmingham City Jail -- Psychological Violence, Physical Violence, and Racial Oppression -- V. Gender Roles and Morality -- Images of Relationship -- The Unnecessary Father -- Is Equality Tearing Families Apart? -- Do Wedding Dresses Come in Lavender? The Prospects and Implications of Same-Sex Marriage -- A Community of Secrets: The Separate World of Bedouin Women -- American Indian Women at the Center of Indigenous Resistance in Contemporary North America -- VI. Racial and Ethnic Discrimination -- Last Battlefield: Biological Theories of Race and the Future of American Society -- White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies -- The Color-Blind Principle -- Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference -- Stories of Access and "Luck": Chicana/os, Higher Education, and the Politics of Incorporation -- Racisms -- Shared Responsibility for Racism -- VII. Abortion -- An Almost Absolute Value in History -- On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion -- Why Abortion Is Immoral -- Selective Termination of Pregnancy and Women's Reproductive Autonomy -- Professional Responsibility, Reproductive Choice, and the Limits of Appropriate Intervention: The Battle Over RU 486 -- Can Late Abortion Be Ethically Justified? -- Contestation and Consensus: The Morality of Abortion in Japan -- VIII. Euthanasia and Sustaining Life -- Active and Passive Euthanasia -- The Intentional Termination of Life -- Objections to the Institutionalisation of Euthanasia -- Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, the Way They Do It -- Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia -- Buddhist Views of Suicide and Euthanasia -- The Survival Lottery -- Who Shall Be Saved? An African Answer -- IX. Technology, Ethics, and the Remaking of the Self -- Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self -- Gene Therapies and the Pursuit of a Better Human -- The Identity of Clones -- A Life in the Shadow: One Reason Why We Should Not Clone Humans -- Civil Rights for Clones, Cyborgs, and Computers: The Movements of the Future.
General noteMap of the world on pages preceeding t.p.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 97029594
ISBN0135752914 (pbk.)
ISBN9780135752913 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks BJ1031 .A66 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold