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1. | | Title: The worth of a childAuthor: Murray, Thomas H 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Medicine | Social Problems | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Thomas Murray's graceful and humane book illuminates one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. What do children mean to their parents, and how far do parental obligations go? What, from the beginning of life to its end, is the worth of a c . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Earth's insights: a survey of ecological ethics from the Mediterranean basin to the Australian outbackAuthor: Callicott, J. Baird Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy | Anthropology | Ethics | EcologyPublisher's Description: The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion. Earth's Insights widens the scope of environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Modernity and the hegemony of visionAuthor: Levin, David Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy | Literature | EthicsPublisher's Description: This collection of original essays by preeminent interpreters of continental philosophy explores the question of whether Western thought and culture have been dominated by a vision-centered paradigm of knowledge, ethics, and power. It focuses on the character of vision in modern philosophy and on ar . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Agent-centered morality: an Aristotelian alternative to Kantian internalism Author: Harris, George W Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: PhilosophyPublisher's Description: What kinds of persons do we aspire to be, and how do our aspirations fit with our ideas of rationality? In Agent-Centered Morality , George Harris argues that most of us aspire to a certain sort of integrity: We wish to be respectful of and sympathetic to others, and to be loving parents, friends, a . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Twice dead: organ transplants and the reinvention of deathAuthor: Lock, Margaret M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethics | Sociology | Sociology | Ethics | Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Ethnic StudiesPublisher's Description: Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: The temptations of evolutionary ethics Author: Farber, Paul Lawrence 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | History | Ethics | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Evolutionary theory tells us about our biological past; can it also guide us to a moral future? Paul Farber's compelling book describes a century-old philosophical hope held by many biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and social thinkers: that universal ethical and social imperatives are bui . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Songs without music: aesthetic dimensions of law and justiceAuthor: Manderson, Desmond Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Law | Philosophy | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Creatively . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Genethics: moral issues in the creation of people Author: Heyd, David Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy | EthicsPublisher's Description: Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting raise new questions that strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Democracy and moral development Author: Norton, David L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Philosophy | Political Theory | EthicsPublisher's Description: At a time when politics and virtue seem less compatible than oil and water, Democracy and Moral Development shows how to bring the two together. Philosopher David Norton applies classical concepts of virtue to the premises of modern democracy. The centerpiece of the book is a model of organizational . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Being human: ethics, environment, and our place in the worldAuthor: Peterson, Anna Lisa 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Folklore and Mythology | Environmental Studies | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: Being Human examines the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward non-human nature, and ethics. Anna Peterson proposes an "ethical anthropology" that examines how ideas of nature and humanity are bound together in ways that shape the very foundations of cultures. Peter . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Risk and rationality: philosophical foundations for populist reforms Author: Shrader-Frechette, K. S 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Social Problems | Political TheoryPublisher's Description: Only ten to twelve percent of Americans would voluntarily live within a mile of a nuclear plant or hazardous waste facility. But industry spokespersons claim that such risk aversion represents ignorance and paranoia, and they lament that citizen protests have delayed valuable projects and increased . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Rethinking evil: contemporary perspectivesAuthor: Lara, María Pía Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History | Social Theory | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another. María Pía Lara brings together a pr . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Aging, death, and human longevity: a philosophical inquiryAuthor: Overall, Christine 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: With the help of medicine and technology we are living longer than ever before. As human life spans have increased, the moral and political issues surrounding longevity have become more complex. Should we desire to live as long as possible? What are the social ramifications of longer lives? How does . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Ethics in an epidemic: AIDS, morality, and culture Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Sociology | Ethics | Medicine | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: AIDS strikes most heavily at those already marginalized by conventional society. With no immediate prospect of vaccination or cure, how can liberty, dignity, and reasoned hope be preserved in the shadow of an epidemic? In this humane and graceful book, philosopher Timothy Murphy offers insight into . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | | 16. | | Title: Nineteenth-century origins of neuroscientific conceptsAuthor: Clarke, Edwin Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine | EthicsPublisher's Description: This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery. Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Justice and the human genome project Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Biology | MedicinePublisher's Description: The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and we are able, for instance, to identify markers for genetic diseases long before they develop, who will have the right to o . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: The making of fornication: eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early ChristianityAuthor: Gaca, Kathy L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical Religions | Classical Politics | Christianity | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Ancient History | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek et . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Lost lullabyAuthor: Alecson, Deborah Golden 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: American Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Medicine | Ethics | SociologyPublisher's Description: Lost Lullaby makes one think the unthinkable: how a loving parent can pray for the death of her child. It is Deborah Alecson's story of her daughter, Andrea, who was born after a full-term, uneventful pregnancy, weighing 7 pounds 11 ounces, perfectly formed and exquisitely featured. But an inexplica . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Death is that man taking names: intersections of American medicine, law, and cultureAuthor: Burt, Robert 1939- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law | Health Care | History of Medicine | Ethics | ReligionPublisher's Description: The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses, hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their "right to die" - initially by refusing medical treatment and more recently by physician-assisted suicide. T . . . [more]Similar Items |
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