What's good on TV?
Subtitle: understanding ethics through television
By: Jamie Carlin Watson and Robert Arp
Contributors: Arp, Robert
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781405194761; 9781405194754
Subjects: Television broadcasting; Social aspects; Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The pilot episode : ethics and popular culture. Is anything "good" on television? The nature of moral value. Truth and nihilism in ethics; title: Normativity : social, legal, and moral; title: God and ethics; title: What's right and wrong? Ethical theory. Relativism; title: Deontology; title: Consequentialism; title: Virtue ethics; title: But what's right when? Practical ethics. Environmental ethics; title: Animal welfare; title: Abortion; title: Homosexuality; title: Punishment and capital punishment; title: Assisted suicide; title: The epilogue: does TV erode our values?