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Humanity: the Recent Moral History Jonathan Glover 9780712665414
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $35.67This book is about history and morality in the twentieth century. It is about the psychology which made possible Hiroshima, the Nazi genocide, the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's... -
Alien Landscapes?: Interpreting Disordered Minds by Jonathan Glover 9780674368361
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $50.51We have made huge progress in understanding the biology of mental illnesses, but comparatively little in interpreting them at the psychological level. The eminent philosopher Jonathan Glover believes... -
Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design by Jonathan Glover 9780199238491
RRP: $63.36Booksplease Price: $32.57Progress in genetic and reproductive technology now offers us the possibility of choosing what kinds of children we do and don't have. Should we welcome this power, or should we fear its... -
Humanity: the Recent Moral History by Jonathan Glover 9780712665414 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $4.70This book is about history and morality in the twentieth century. It is about the psychology which made possible Hiroshima, the Nazi genocide, the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's... -
Israelis and Palestinians: From the Cycle of Violence to the Conversation of Mankind by Jonathan Glover 9781509559787
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.30Can Israelis and Palestinians end their long conflict? The shocking violence of current events undermines hope, as does the long history of peace deals sabotaged by extremists on both sides. In this... -
Israelis and Palestinians: From the Cycle of Violence to the Conversation of Mankind Jonathan Glover 9781509571864
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $19.29Can Israelis and Palestinians end their long conflict? The shocking violence of current events undermines hope, as does the long history of peace deals sabotaged by extremists on both sides. In this... -
Ethics and Humanity: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover by N. Ann Davis 9780195325195
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $175.05Ethics and Humanity pays to tribute to Jonathan Glover, a pioneering figure whose thought and personal influence have had a significant impact on applied philosophy. In topics that include genetic... -
Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning: Ethics after Devastation by Andrew D. DeCort 9781978701014
Booksplease Price: $65.99Bonhoeffer's New Beginning investigates the ethics of making new beginnings after devastating moral rupture. The work argues that new beginnings must be made in order to sustain the fundamental... -
Causing Death and Saving Lives: The Moral Problems of Abortion, Infanticide, Suicide, Euthanasia, Capital Punishment, War and Other Life-or-death Choices by Jonathan Glover
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00The moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punshiment, war and othe life-or-death choices.About the AuthorJonathan Glover is Professor of Ethics and Director of the... -
Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People by John Harris 9780691148168
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $46.20In Enhancing Evolution, leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering, stem-cell research, designer babies, and cloning and makes an ethical case for biotechnology that... -
The Genetic Revolution and Human Rights: In Support of Amnesty International by Justine Burley 9780192862013
Booksplease Price: $67.02Are eugenics practices morally defensible? Who should have access to genetic information about particular individuals? What dangers for cultural and racial diversity do developments in genetics pose?... -
Rationality and the Genetic Challenge: Making People Better? by Matti Hayry 9780521763363
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $120.22Should we make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances enable us to do so? Matti Hayry asks this question in the context of genetic testing and selection, cloning... -
Imperceptible Harms and Benefits by Michael J. Almeida 9789401058063
Booksplease Price: $90.25The papers collected here represent the most recent work on a much neglected problem in practical reasoning. It is the problem of imperceptible harms and benefits. It is perhaps better to... -
Imperceptible Harms and Benefits by Michael J. Almeida 9780792364641
Booksplease Price: $91.14The papers collected here represent the most recent work on a much neglected problem in practical reasoning. It is the problem of imperceptible harms and benefits. It is perhaps better to... -
Reflecting on Nature by Lori Gruen 9780195082906
Booksplease Price: $96.72The first anthology to highlight the problems of environmental justice and sustainable development, Reflecting on Nature provides a multicultural perspective on questions of environmental concern,... -
Rationality and the Genetic Challenge: Making People Better? by Matti Hayry 9780521757133
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $79.91Should we make people healthier, smarter, and longer-lived if genetic and medical advances enable us to do so? Matti Hayry asks this question in the context of genetic testing and selection, cloning... -
Lanson Lectures in Bioethics (2016-2022): Assisted Suicide, Responsibility, and Pandemic Ethics by Hon-Lam Li 9783031420511
Booksplease Price: $218.63Bioethical issues are practically urgent, politically divisive, and call for resolutions. They often involve questions that are perplexing, deep, and profound. To deal with them adequately requires... -
Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780198289647
Booksplease Price: $111.09This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open... -
Race and Displacement: Nation, Migration and Identity in the Twenty-First Century by Maha Marouan 9780817318017
Booksplease Price: $78.64Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge... -
The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature Peter Singer (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada) 9781405105842
RRP: $72.05Booksplease Price: $65.11In The Moral of the Story, Peter and Renata Singer draw on some of the best works of fiction, playwriting, and poetry in order to shed light on the perennial questions of ethics. A vivid montage of... -
The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature Peter Singer (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada) 9781405105835
RRP: $216.35Booksplease Price: $198.26In The Moral of the Story, Peter and Renata Singer draw on some of the best works of fiction, playwriting, and poetry in order to shed light on the perennial questions of ethics. A vivid montage of... -
Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development by Kaushik Basu 9780199239979
Booksplease Price: $230.53Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate,... -
Genomics, Populations, and Society by Ruth Chadwick 9780323917995
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $204.69Genomics, Populations, and Society, a new volume in the Genomic and Precision Medicine in Clinical Practice series, considers the vast and thorny web of ELSI topics in genomics, from bioethics to... -
Genomics and Society: Ethical, Legal, Cultural and Socioeconomic Implications by Dhavendra Kumar 9780124201958
RRP: $120.88Booksplease Price: $112.09Genomics and Society; Ethical, Legal-Cultural, and Socioeconomic Implications is the first book to address the vast and thorny web of ELSI topics identified as core priorities of the NHGRI in 2011. ...