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Explores the moral and factual issues of the legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

"Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, debates over pornography have raged, and the explosive spread in recent years of sexually explicit images across the Internet has only added more urgency to these disagreements. Politicians, judges, clergy, citizen activists, and academics have weighed in on the issues for decades, complicating notions about what precisely is at stake, and who stands to benefit or be harmed by pornography. This volume takes...

Explores the controversy surrounding the use of electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT. Follows the ongoing treatments of a 30-year old mother of two and interviews people on both sides of the issue, including Dr. Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist and outspoken critic of ECT, and Roland Kohloff, chief timpanist of the New York Philharmonic, who claims ECT saved both his and his son's life.

"Randolph Feezell's Sport, Play, and Ethical Reflection immediately tackles two big questions about sport: "What is it?" and "Why does it attract so many people?" He argues that sports participation is best described as a form of human play, and the attraction for participants and viewers alike derives from both its aesthetic richness and narrative structure. He then claims that the way sports encourage serious competition in trivial pursuits is fundamentally...

To lead is to serve. Although serving may imply weakness to some, servant leadership is actually a robust, revolutionary idea that can have significant impact on an organizations̕ performance.

Studies primarily France with shorter sections on South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine.

How far should we go in the fight against terrorism? 'Enhanced' interrogation methods used by America in the aftermath of 9/11 - including the technique of controlled drowning known as waterboarding - have been condemned as torture. This BBC Panorama program lets viewers decide as it recreates what was done, and hears from those who approved, ran and suffered the programme in secret CIA prisons around the world.

The choice of whether or not to consume animals is more than merely a dietary one. It frequently reflects deep ethical commitments or religious convictions that serve as the bedrock of an entire lifestyle. Proponents of vegetarianism frequently infuriate nonvegetarians, who feel that they're being morally condemned because of what they choose to eat. Vegetarians are frequently infuriated by what they consider to be the nonvegetarians' disregard for...