Title: Moral problems : a collection of philosophical essays /
Authors: Rachels, James, 1941-2003
Publisher: Harper & Row,
Year: 1979
Subjects: Ethics; Social Responsibility; Social ethics
Contents: Rights, human rights, and racial discrimination / Richard Wasserstrom -- Women's liberation / Betty Roszak -- Racism and sexism, a false analogy / Ann Dummett -- Justifying reverse discrimination in employment / George Sher -- University of California v. Bakke / United States Supreme Court -- Animal liberation / Peter Singer -- Roe v. Wade / United States Supreme Court -- The status of the fetus / Richard Wasserstrom -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis -- Abortion and the golden rule / R.M. Hare -- The fetus as guinea pig / Maggie Scarf -- Guidelines for fetal research / National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects -- Fetal research / Peter Singer -- Justice and economic income / Joel Feinberg -- Capitalism and freedom / Milton Friedman -- Capitalism and poverty / Bernard Gendron -- Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer -- Lifeboat ethics : the case against helping the poor / Garrett Hardin -- Myths of the food crisis / Nick Eberstadt -- The justification of punishment / R.S. Downie -- Critique of rehabilitation / American Friends Service Committee -- Against capital punishment / Victor H. Evjen -- In favor of capital punishment / Jacques Barzun -- Gregg v. Georgia / United States Supreme Court -- The just war / Joseph McKenna -- War and murder / G.E.M Anscombe -- Pacifism : a philisophical analysis / Jan Narveson -- Ethics and nuclear deterrence / Douglas Lackey -- Death / Thomas Nagel -- The morality and rationality of suicide / Richard Brandt -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Euthanasia and the principle of harm / A.D. Woozley.