Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics

The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Second Edition is 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. It will appeal to university, research and special libraries, as well as teachers, students, policy-makers and the interested general public around the world. Published both in print and via Elsevier's online platform of ScienceDirect. Ruth Chadwick, Department of Bioethics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K. 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