Ethical issues
Subtitle: perspectives for Canadians
By: edited by Eldon Soifer
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Peterborough, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 784
ISBN-13: 9781551118741
Subjects: Applied ethics; Textbooks; Social ethics; Éthique appliquée; Manuels d'enseignement supérieur; Morale sociale
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The moral status of non-human animals. Animal cruelty legislation : Bill S-203 ; Bill C-373 (excerpt); title: The rights of animals and unborn generations / Joel Feinberg; title: Animal liberation / Peter Singer; title: Utilitarianism and vegetarianism / Roger Crisp; title: Do animals feel pain? / Peter Harrison; title: The prospects for consensus and convergence in the animal rights debate / Gary E. Varner; title: Trapped / J. Barber.; title: pt. 2. Ethics and the environment. Crimes against the environment (excerpts) / Law Reform Commission of Canada; title: Identification as a source of deep ecological attitudes / Arne Naess; title: The power and promise of ecofeminism / Karen J. Warren; title: Legal rights for nature : the wrong answer to the right(s) question / P.S. Elder; title: Resources and environmental policy / Jan Narveson; title: Rich and poor (excerpts) / Peter Singer; title: Famine relief and the ideal moral code / John Arthur; title: A perfect moral storm : climate change, intergenerational ethics and the problem of moral corruption / Stephen M. Gardiner; title: New and future people : what should we do about future people? / Trudy Govier.; title: pt. 4. Assisted reproduction and commodification. Proceed with care (excerpts) / Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies; title: The right to have children (excerpt) / Canadian Medical Association; title: The ethics of in vitro fertilization / Arthur L. Caplan; title: Is women's labor a commodity? / Elizabeth S. Anderson; title: Exploitation or empowerment? Debating surrogate motherhood / Felicia Daunt; title: What's wrong with prostitution? / Igor Primoratz; title: Prostitution / Alison Jaggar.; title: pt. 5. Euthanasia. Voluntary active euthanasia / Dan W. Brock; title: When self-determination runs amok / Daniel Callahan; title: Rodriguez v. Canada (A.G.) (excerpts) / Supreme Court of Canada; title: Assisted suicide, causality and the Supreme Court of Canada / Edward W. Keyserlingk; title: The case of Robert and Tracy Latimer / Rudy Krutzen.; title: pt. 6. Free expression, censorship, and pornography. R. v. Keegstra (excerpts) / Supreme Court of Canada; title: The Tobacco Control Act (S.S. 2001, c. T-14.1) (excerpt) / Province of Saskatchewan; title: Diversity and creativity / Neil Bissoondath; title: The myth of community standards / L.W. Sumner; title: Whose body? Whose self? Beyond pornography / Myrna Kostash; title: Pornography : the other side (excerpts) / Ferrel Christensen; title: Pornography is a civil rights issue / Andrea Dworkin; title: Feminism, moralism, and pornography / Ellen Willis; title: Is violation pornography bad for your soul? / Stephen Kershnar; title: The Internet : a philosophical inquiry (excerpts) / Gordon Graham.