Description
This best-selling text continues to fill an existing gap in the literature taught in applied ethics courses. As a growing number of courses that include the perspectives of diverse cultures are being added to the university curriculum, texts are needed that represent more multicultural and diverse histories and backgrounds. This new edition enhances gender coverage, as nearly half of the pieces are now authored by women. The new edition also increases the percentage of pieces written by those who come from a non-Western background. It offers twelve up-to-date articles (not found in previous editions) on human rights, environmental ethics, poverty, war and violence, gender, race, euthanasia, and abortion; all of these topics are addressed from Western and non-Western perspectives.
Table of Contents
I. Theoretical Perspectives II. Human Rights III. Hunger and Poverty IV. War, Terrorism, and Peace V. Racial and Ethnic Discrimination VI. Gender Roles and Morality VII. Abortion VIII. Euthanasia, Sustaining, and Ending Life IX. Environmental Ethics
