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Alternatives to Animal Testing
This open access book presents recent advances in the pure sciences that are of significance in the quest for alternatives to the use of animals in research and describes a variety of practical applications of the three key guiding principles for the more ethical use of animals in experiments – replacement, reduction, and refinement, collectively known as the 3Rs. Important examples from acro…
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- 1
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- 9789811324475
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- VI, 130 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Power of Morality in Movements: Civic Engagement in Climate Justice, Huma…
This Open Access book explores the role of morality in social movements. Morality has always been central to social movements whether it be in the form of the moral foundations of movement claims, politics and ideologies, the values motivating participation, the new moral principles envisioned and practiced among movement participants, or the overall struggle over society’s moral values that …
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- 978-3-030-98798-5
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- Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
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- IX, 334
Bearing Witness
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas …
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- 978-3-030-62792-8
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- -
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
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- XXVI, 271
Bioethics and the Holocaust
This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics continues to face questions of social and medical controversy that have their roots in the lessons of the Holocaust, such as debates over beginning-of-life and medical genetics…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-01987-6
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- -
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- The International Library of Bioethics
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- XII, 323
Integrität im Managementalltag
Geschenke und Gefälligkeiten, Entlassungen, Mobbing, Billiglohnproduktion oder Einsatz von Cookies oder Persönlichkeitsprofilen – Das Spektrum an möglichen Spannungsfeldern im Unternehmensalltag ist groß. Mit der Digitalisierung sind die ethischen Herausforderungen noch größer. Dieses Open Access Buch führt Führungskräfte in die Erfassung und Lösung ethischer Dilemmas im Unternehmen…
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- XV, 138
Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes: New Research Methods to Study …
This open access book offers four ways to enrich traditional research methods in business ethics. By looking at critical jokes and cartoons on management consultants, their business practice and their clients’ demands, many ethical transgressions in business get addressed. By illustrating and criticizing such transgression, jokes can serve as an example in a theoretical argument, as a prompt …
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- 978-3-031-10201-1
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- -
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics
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- XIII, 101
Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes
This open access book offers four ways to enrich traditional research methods in business ethics. By looking at critical jokes and cartoons on management consultants, their business practice and their clients’ demands, many ethical transgressions in business get addressed. By illustrating and criticizing such transgression, jokes can serve as an example in a theoretical argument, as a prompt …
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- 978-3-031-10201-1
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- SpringerBriefs in Ethics
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- XIII, 101
The Evolution of Morality
"A Bradford book."A consideration of whether the human capacity to make moral judgments is innate and, if so, what implications follow; combines philosophical discussion with the latest findings from the empirical sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- -
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- 9780262276535
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- 1 online resource (271 pages).
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Natural ethical facts :evolution, connectionism, and moral cognition
"A Bradford book."In Natural Ethical Facts William Casebeer argues that we can articulate a fully naturalized ethical theory using concepts from evolutionary biology and cognitive science, and that we can study moral cognition just as we study other forms of cognition. His goal is to show that we have "softly fixed" human natures, that these natures are evolved, and that our lives go well or ba…
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- 9780262270021
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- 1 online resource (x, 214 pages)
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Higher Education in a Sustainable Society: A Case for Mutual Competence Building
This book addresses the following question: What is a sustainable society, and how can higher education help us to develop toward it? The core argument put forward is that the concept of sustainability reaches much farther than just the direct aspects of environmental threats and carbon emissions. Using higher education as a point of departure, the book shows that sustainability involves a broa…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-15918-8
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- XIX, 301
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- -
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- 330 HIG
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