"A counter history of the birth of bioethics, which focuses on the dissenters and whistleblowers who challenged law and institutions rather than simply the development of new technologies"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Crowded Out examines how charitable crowdfunding so quickly overtook public life, where it is taking us, and who gets left behind by this new platformed economy. While crowdfunding has become ubiquitous in our lives, it is largely misunderstood by the public: rather than a friendly free market "powered by the kindness" of strangers, crowdfunding is powerfully reinforcing inequalities and chang…
"We raise our children in a fragile world. Climate change, pandemics, superbugs resistant to antibiotics. Extreme inequality, endemic poverty, institutionalized racism and sexism. What does it mean to be a "good parent" in the face of all this? This book is one woman's quest for an answer, as a philosopher and as a mother"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Redish builds on work on morality in economics, genetics, evolution, etc. and combines it with the latest research in neuroscientific decision-making to develop a coherent science of morality"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Using the non-human construct of the cyborg, this book address the problems inherent in difference and oppression, like gender, race, class, disability, sexuality, human exceptionalism and global borders"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"First in-depth analysis of engineers working in resource extraction, focusing particularly on those who viewed social responsibility as fundamental to their profession"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The subject of this book is moral change, including moral progress and regression. The intention is to use the best thinking about the evolution of morality and the best available social science research to determine the possibilities for progressive change in human moralities by examining important morally progressive changes that have already occurred, in order to determine the social condit…
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The idea that there is such a thing as a human right to health has become pervasive. It has not only been acknowledged by a variety of international law documents and thus entered the political realm but is also defended in academic circles. Yet, despite its prominence the human right to health remains something of a mystery— especially with respect to its philosophical underpinnings. Address…