The four-volume set includes detailed investigations of historical and theoretical material including topics from the award-winning first edition published in 1998, plus topics on issues that were not or only just barely on the horizon.
In addition to the areas in which particular issues arise, it is still essential for those engaged in applied ethics to reflect on what is being 'applied'. The work includes a number of articles on ethical and philosophical approaches, historical and contemporary, religious and secular.
Led by an esteemed editorial board, it is written not only by practitioners in the particular fields in question; but by academics from disciplines such as law and economics. A broad and inclusive table of contents ensures detailed investigation of historical and theoretical material as well as in-depth analysis of current issues.
It will appeal to university, research and special libraries, as well as teachers, students, policy-makers and the interested general public around the world.
This title features concise entries (ten pages on average) that provide foundational knowledge of the field. Each article will feature suggested readings pointing readers to additional sources for more information, a list of related websites, a 5-10 word glossary and a definition paragraph, and cross-references to related articles in the encyclopedia.
It includes newly expanded editorial board and a host of international contributors from the US, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The 376 chapters are divided into 4 volumes, each chapter falling into a subject category including Applied Ethics; Bioethics; Computers and Information Management; Economics/Business; Environmental Ethics; Ethics and Politics; Legal; Medical Ethics; Philosophy/Theories; Social; and, Social/Media.
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"This authoritative four-volume reference has a broad reach, encompassing the various fields and endeavors in which ethical issues arise as well as the field of practical ethics itself and a variety of historical, con- temporary, religious, and secular approaches. Written by an international roster of philosophers, practitioners in numerous fields, and academics from disciplines such as law and economics, this is a resource of value to an equally diverse audience. The second edition is a substantial revision and expansion of the 1998 first edition, both in terms of ongoing thinking about older topics and in terms of new topics introduced by events and developments of the intervening years. Entries are fully developed, well-structured, signed articles, each enhanced with a brief glossary, a bibliography, website references, and brief bios of the contributing authors. A subject classification in the front matter lists entries under the following broad themes: applied ethics, bioethics, computers and information management, economics and business, environment, politics, education, law, medicine, philosophical theories, social, and media. A more specific sampling of topics: reality TV, biometric technologies, race and genomics, electronic surveillance, land use issues, tourism, religion in schools, victimless crimes, obesity, rights theory, gender roles, and social services, among many, many others." --Reference and Research Book News, August 2012
"The last 15 years have seen watershed movements in ethics, especially applied ethics. The second edition of this encyclopedia reflects these changes, touching on developments in medicine, information technology, and privacy among othersThe scope of the content and the quality of the articles (especially the discussions of the relationship of hermeneutics to applied ethics) will appeal to the full range of students, specialists, and interested readers. Summing up: Highly recommend. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers." --CHOICE, November 2012
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An all-encompassing reference work providing a comprehensive and definitive review of the field. A broad and inclusive table of contents ensures detailed investigation of historical and theoretical material as well as in-depth analysis of current issues
Table of Contents:
Abortion
Accounting and business ethics
Acts and omissions
Addiction
Adoption
Advance directives
Advertising
Affirmative Action
Ageism
Agricultural Ethics
AIDS in the developing world
AIDS: Ethical Issues in Healthcare
Altruism and economics
Animal research
Animal Rights
Anthropocentrism
Appearance, Ethics of
Applied ethics, Challenges to
Applied ethics, Overview
Archaeological Ethics
Aristotelian ethics
Arts, The
Auditing practices
Authority in education
Autonomy
Benefit sharing
Biobanks
Biocentrism
Biodiversity
Bioethics, Overview
Bioinformatics and Ethics
Biometric Technologies, Ethical Implications
Biopower (Foucault)
Biotechnology
Bioterrorism
Border control/asylum seekers
Brain death
Broadcast Journalism
Buddhism
Business ethics and gender issues
Business Ethics and the Quality of life
Business ethics, Overview
Business Practices and Agent Virtue
Capital Punishment
Care, Ethics of
Casuistry
Censorship
Changing Concepts of Race in the Age of Genomics
Child Abuse
Children’s Rights
Christian ethics, Protestant
Christian ethics, Roman Catholic
Citizenship
Civil disobedience
Civilian populations in war, Targeting of
Climate change
Clinical ethics
Cloning
Codes of ethics
Coercive treatment in psychiatry
Collective guilt
Communication ethics
Communitarianism
Community Roles in Consent to Research and Research Without Individual Informed Consent
Complementary medicine
Computer and information ethics
Computer security
Confidentiality of Sources in Social Research
Confidentiality, General issues of
Conflict of interest
Confucian Qing-Based Morality
Conjoined twins
Conscientious objection
Consequentialism and deontology
Consumer rights
Contractarian ethics
Corporate Governance
Corporate responsibility
Corporations, Ethics in
Cosmetic surgery
Cosmopolitanism
Crime and society
Custody of children
Cyborgs
Daoism (Taoism)
Darwinism
Death, Definition of
Death, Medical aspects of
Death, Social attitudes towards
Deep Ecology
Defences at criminal law
Democracy
Dental Ethics
Developing world bioethics
Development ethics
Development Issues, Environmental
Dignity
Disability, Definition Within Law and Society
Disaster Relief
Discourse ethics
Discrimination, Concept of
Distributive justice, Theories of
Divorce
Do-not-resuscitate decisions
Drugs: Moral and legal issues
Dual use of biotechnology
Ecological Balance
Economic ethics: an overview
Economic Globalization and Ethico-Political Rights
Economies and Trust
Ectogenesis
Egoism and altruism
Elderly, Social attitudes towards
Election strategies
Electronic surveillance
Embryology, Ethics of
Environmental compliance by industry
Environmental Economics
Environmental Ethics, Overview
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental justice
Epicureanism
Equality and egalitarianism
Ethical experiments
Ethical expertise in policy
Ethical Issues in Genetic databases
Ethical issues in the Payment of research subjects
Ethics and Education: Civil Education
Ethics and Policy
Ethics and Social Services, Overview
Ethics and the Built Environment
Ethics of a Sustainable World Population in 100 Years
Ethics of Affordable Housing
Ethics of Anatomy
Ethics of Clinical/Randomised trials
Ethics of Technology, Overview
Ethnocultural minority groups, Status and treatment of
Eugenics
Euthanasia (physician-assisted suicide)
Everyday ethics
Evidence-based medicine
Evil, Problem of
Evolutionary perspectives on ethics
Executive compensation
Existentialism
Exploitation
Family, The
Female circumcision and genital mutilation
Feminist ethics
Fetal research
Fetus
Food ethics
Freedom of Expression
Freudianism
Friendship
Functional Foods and Personalised Nutrition
Gaia Hypothesis
Gambling in the United States
Game theory
Gender roles
Gene therapy
Genetic Ancestry
Genetic counseling
Genetic Engineering (of human beings)
Genetic exceptionalism
Genetic screening
Genetics and behaviour
Genetics and crime
Genetics and insurance
Global access to knowledge
Global ethics, Overview
Global Ethics: Approaches
Global Public Goods
Greek ethics, Overview
Gun control
Health and disease, Concepts of
Health impact assessment
Health Technology Assessment
Hedonism
Hermeneutics
Hinduism
Homelessness
Homicide, Criminal
Homosexuality, Societal attitudes toward
Human Enhancement
Human Genome Project
Human nature, Views of
Human Research Subjects, Selection of
Human Rights
Humanism
Imperialism
Improper payments and gifts
Indigenous rights
Infectious diseases (e.g. SARS)
Infertility
Information gathering and use for population health
Informed consent
Innovation (definition of)
Intellectual property rights
Intelligence testing
Intrinsic and Instrumental Value
Islam
Journalism Ethics
Judaism
Jury conduct
Just War Theory
Justice in international research
Juvenile crime
Kantianism
Land Use Issues
Leadership, Ethics of
Liberalism
Life, Concept of
Literature and Ethics
Loyalty
Machiavellianism
Marxism and ethics
Media Depiction of Ethnic Minorities
Media Organizations as Social Institutions
Media Ownership
Medical codes and oaths
Medical ethics, History of
Medical ethics, Use of empirical evidence in
Medical futility
Medical humanities
Mental Disorder, Concept of
Mercy and forgiveness
Military Ethics (was Military codes of behaviour)
Mobility (migration)
Mobility (transport)
Moral development
Moral Particularism
Moral relativism
Multidisciplinary approaches to ethics
Nanotechnology
Native American cultures
Nature versus nurture
Needs and Justice
Neuro-ethics/Brain-imaging
Normative Coherence (theory of)
Nuclear Deterrence
Nuclear Testing
Nuclear Warfare
Nursing
Nutrigenomics
Obesity
Objectivity in Reporting
Open source software
Organ Donation and Transplantation
Organisations and guidelines (UNESCO, HUGO)
Pacifism
Paedophilia
Painism
Palliative care
Parliamentary ethics
Patents
Paternalism
Patients' rights
Perfectionism
Personal Relationships
Personalised medicine
Personalism
Persuasive technology
Pharmacogenetics
Physiotherapy, Ethics of
Placebo treatment
Plagiarism and Forgery
Platonism
Playing God
Police Accountability
Police and Race Relations
Political correctness
Political Ecology
Political obligation
Pornography
Poststructuralism
Poverty
Pragmatism
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Preventive Medicine
Principlism
Privacy, Challenges to
Professional ethics
Property Rights
Prostitution
Proteomics
Psychiatric ethics
Psychosurgery and physical brain manipulation
Public Engagement in Science and Technology
Public health ethics
Publish-or-Perish Syndrome
Racism
Rape
Reality TV
Regenerative medicine
Regulation and Censorship in the Internet age
Religion and ethics
Religion in schools
Reproductive technologies, Overview
Reputation management by corporations
Research ethics committees
Research ethics, Clinical
Research funding and academic freedom
Research Governance
Resource allocation
Responsibility
Right to know and right not to know
Rights theory
Risk Governance in a Complex World
Safety Laws
Saviour siblings
Science and Engineering Ethics, Overview
Scientific Publications
Scientific responsibility and misconduct
Self-deception
Sen's "Capabilities" and Economic Welfare
Sex equality
Sex selection
Sexism
Sexual Content in Films and Television
Sexual orientation
Sikhism
Slavery
Slippery slope arguments
Social ethics, Overview
Social Network Media: The Ethical Maze of Participation 2.0
Social Responsibility Principle
Social Security
Social Welfare: Provision and Finance
Social work
Socially responsible investment
Solidarity
Space ethics
Speciesism
Sports, Ethics of
Stem Cells
Stewardship
Stoicism
Strikes
Suggestion, Ethics of
Suicide (not assisted)
Sustainability
Synthetic Biology
Tabloid Journalism
Technology assessment as an analytic and democratic practice
Technology Transfer
Terrorism
The Ethics of Privacy
The ethics of virtual communities
The Precautionary Principle
Theories of ethics, Overview
Theories of justice: Rawls
Therapeutic misconception
Thomism
Tourism
Trade Law and Globalization
Transhumanism
Transsexualism
Trust
Truth Telling as Constitutive of Journalism
Undercover investigations, Ethics of
Use of Historical Evidence in Medical Ethics
Utilitarianism
Vegetarianism
Veterinary Medical Ethics
Victimless crimes
Violence in Films and Television
Virtue ethics
Warfare, Codes of
Welfare Policies
Whistle-blowing
Wildlife Conservation
Women’s Rights
Workplace ethics: Issues for human service professionals in the New Millennium
Xenotransplantation
Zoos and Zoological Parks
Ruth Chadwick is Distinguished Research Professor and Director of the ESRC (Economic and Social Sciences Research Council) Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen), at Cardiff University, UK and Link Chair between Cardiff Law School and the School of English, Communication and Philosophy (ENCAP). Professor Chadwick has coordinated a number of projects funded by the European Commission, including the EUROSCREEN projects and co-edits the journal Bioethics and the online journal Genomics, Society and Policy. She is Chair of the Human Genome Organisation Committee on Ethics, Law and Society, and has served as a member of several policy-making and advisory bodies, including the Panel of Eminent Ethical Experts of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), and the UK Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP). She was editor-in-chief of the first edition of the award winning Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. She is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Hastings Center, New York; of the Royal Society of Arts; and of the Royal Society of Medicine. In 2005 she was the winner of the World Technology Network Award for Ethics for her work on the relationship between scientific developments and ethical frameworks. She graduated with first class Honours Literae Humaniores (Philosophy and Greek and Latin Literature) from the University of Oxford, and then went on to take the B.Phil. in Philosophy. She was awarded her D.Phil. on The Ethics of Eugenics and Genetic Engineering, supervised by Jonathan Glover. She completed an LL.B. (externally) at the University of London. She held positions at the University of Liverpool, St. Martins College, Lancaster, and University of Wales, Cardiff, before taking up her post as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire. In June 1995 she became Head of the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University, a position she still holds. She has coordinated a number of multinational and multidisciplinary research projects funded by the European Union: Ethical Implications of Human Genome Analysis for Clinical Practice in Medical Genetics, with Special Reference to Genetic Counselling (1992); EUROSCREEN: Genetic Screening--Ethical and Philosophical Perspectives (19941996); BIOCULT: Cultural and Social Objections to Biotechnology, with Special Reference to the View of Young People (1995); EUROSCREEN 2: Genetic Screening--Towards Community Policy on Insurance, Commercialisation and Public Awareness (19961999). Her publications include the four volume edited collection, Kant: Critical Assessments (1992); Ethics, Reproduction and Genetic Control (Revised Edition, 1992);and a large number of papers in learned journals. She is joint series editor of the Routledge series on Professional Ethics. Professor Chadwick is secretary of the International Association of Bioethics and a member of the HUGO Ethics committee, the National Committee for Philosophy and the British Medical Association Steering Group on Human Genetics.
