Moral Issues in Global Perspective - Volume 3: Moral Issues - Second Edition (Paperback, 2)

Preface

CHAPTER ONE: REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES

• Introduction
• Why Abortion is Immoral
• Don Marquis
• Sensationalized Philosophy: A Reply to Marquis’s “Why Abortion is Immoral”
• Ann E. Cudd
• The Importance of Ontology for Feminist Policy-Making in the Realm of Reproductive Technology
• Susan Sherwin
• In New Tests for Fetal Defects, Agonizing Choices for Parents
• Amy Harmon
• A History of Governmentally Coerced Sterilization: The Plight of the Native American Woman
• Michael Sullivan DeFine
• Reproductive Health and Research Ethics: Hot Issues in Argentina
• Florencia Luna
• Study Questions
• Suggested Readings

CHAPTER TWO: EUTHANASIA, ASSISTED SUICIDE, AND HEALTH CARE

• Introduction
• Equality and Efficiency as Basic Social Values
• Michael Stingl
• Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, The Way They Do It
• Margaret Battin
• The Instability of the Standard Justification for Physician-Assisted Suicide
• Thomas A. Cavanaugh
• Unspeakable Conversations
• Harriet McBryde Johnson
• Dementia, Critical Interests, and Euthanasia
• Nathan Brett
• Study Questions
• Suggested Readings

CHAPTER THREE: PORNOGRAPHY AND HATE SPEECH

• Introduction
• Women and Pornography
• Ronald Dworkin
• Feminist Anti-Pornography Struggles: Not the Church, But Maybe the State
• Marvin Glass
• Morality, Censorship, and Discrimination: Reframing the Pornography Debate in Germany and Europe
• Heather MacRae
• A Relational Critique of the Right to Privacy: The Case of Pornography and the Internet
• Alison Minea and Christine M. Koggel
• Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim’s Story
• Mari J. Matsuda
• Study Questions
• Suggested Readings

CHAPTER FOUR: ANIMAL RIGHTS

• Introduction
• All Animals are Equal ...
• Peter Singer
• The Case for Animal Rights
• Tom Regan
• Vegetarianism and Virtue: Does Consequentialism Demand too Little?
• Nathan Nobis
• Your Daughter or Your Dog? A Feminist Assessment of the Animal Research Issue
• Deborah Slicer
• The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic
• J. Baird Callicott
• Study Questions
• Suggested Readings

CHAPTER FIVE: THE ENVIRONMENT

• Introduction
• Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique
• Ramachandra Guha
• Moving Beyond Anthropocentrism: Environmental Ethics, Development, and the Amazon
• Eric Katz and Lauren Oechsli
• Development and Environmentalism
• Robin Attfield
• Maori Environmental Virtues
• John Patterson
• On Environmental Law
• Michael Traynor
• Study Questions
• Suggested Readings

Acknowledgements