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"An impressive line-up. The book is everything it purports to be. For someone who wants a short collection of many of the seminal and influential essays in applied philosophy, one probably can't do better than this."--Teaching Philosophy
"Excellent, provocative." --M.B. Montgomery, Drexel University
"The students in my introductory course respond enthusiastically to this book."--M.A. Box, Dickinson State University
"Excellent collection of some of the world's greatest contributors-past and present-to civilization! I am thoroughly impressed."--Susan B. Dickey, Temple University
"One of the best collections of readings both in terms of scope and aptness. Could be used as a foundation text in any course in applied ethics."--Manuel M. Davenport, Texas A&M University
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This volume collects a wealth of articles covering a range of topics of practical concern in the field of ethics, including active and passive euthanasia, abortion, organ transplants, capital punishment, the consequences of human actions, slavery, overpopulation, the separate spheres of men and women, animal rights, and game theory and the nuclear arms race. The contributors are Thomas Nagel, David Hume, James Rachels, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Michael Tooley, John Harris, John Stuart Mill, Louis Pascal, Jonathan Glover, Derek Parfit, R.M. Hare, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Peter Singer, and Nicholas Measor.
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IF death is the unequivocal and permanent end of our existence, the question arises whether it is a bad thing to die. Read the first page
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This is a wonderful book. The essays are all of a high standard - thought provoking, challenging and well written. Although they deal with profound issues, you do not need to be familiar with ethical concepts to benefit from the book. If you are interested in ethics, I think this is essential reading. One or two essays seem dated in terms of examples used and data referred to (particularly 8 and 14) - but even here once you get beyond the specific examples used the essays are still brilliant. Overall I particularly liked 4, 12 and 13 - two of which are topics I would not normally be deeply interested in. If you want to enjoy academic writing at its best, most practical and most accessible you would struggle to do better than this volume.
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This book is an excellent introduction for students to biomedical ethics. peter Singer is an inteligent professor but unlike many academics he has the ability to simplify complex issues. the book focuses on life and death issues, raising all of the contemporary responses to those issues. Highly recommended!!
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This book is absolutly essential reading if you are considering applying for a post graduate qualification in any of the psycho-medical sciences.
Whilst you could not exactly call this book 'easy reading', it is well laid out and the author has ensured that the book flows well so that it is easy to reference specific topics.
Whilst you could not exactly call this book 'easy reading', it is well laid out and the author has ensured that the book flows well so that it is easy to reference specific topics.
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