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Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach

by: May, Larry; Collins-Chobanian, Shari; Wong, Kai

Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach

by: May, Larry; Collins-Chobanian, Shari; Wong, Kai

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0131898027
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2006
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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This text addresses various topics in applied ethics from Western and non-Western perspectives. Multicultural perspectives are fully integrated throughout the text.

Preface

vii

Introduction

(4)

Antiracism, Multiculturalism, and Interracial Community: Three Educational Values for a Multicultural Society

Lawrence A. Blum

(10)

Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation

Martha Nussbaum

(12)

I Theoretical Perspectives

(50)

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

(9)

A Simplified Account of Kant's Ethics

Onora O'Neill

(6)

On Virtue Ethics

Rosalind Hursthouse

(8)

Hindu Values

Debabrata Sen Sharma

(7)

Images of Relationship

Carol Gilligan

(11)

II Human Rights and Justice

(84)

United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

(5)

The Liberal Principles Underlying Human Rights

Carlos Santiago Nino

(7)

Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights

Charlotte Bunch

(9)

Islam, Islamic Law, and the Dilemma of Cultural Legitimacy for Universal Human Rights

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

101

(10)

The African Context of Human Rights

Claude Ake

111

(6)

A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary China

Joseph Chan

117

(16)

A Buddhist Response to the Nature of Human Rights

Kenneth K Inada

133

(10)

Conditions of an Unforced Consensus on Human Rights

Charles Taylor

143

(18)

III Environmental Ethics

161

(66)

The Land Ethic

Aldo Leopold

165

(11)

Animal Liberation is an Environmental Ethic

Dale Jamieson

176

(10)

A "Good" Environment: Just One of the Set of Human Objectives

William Baxter

186

(5)

Look to the Mountain: Reflections on Indigenous Ecology

Gregory Cajete

191

(9)

On the Environmental Ethics of the Tao and the Ch'i

Chung-ying Cheng

200

(8)

Environmental Racism, American Indians, and Monitored Retrievable Storage Sites for Radioactive Waste

Shari Collins-Chobanian

208

(9)

Development, Ecology, and Women

Vandana Shiva

217

(10)

IV Hunger and Poverty

227

(68)

Carrying Capacity as an Ethical Concept

Garrett Hardin

232

(8)

Sex & Consequences: World Population Growth vs. Reproductive Rights

Margaret P. Battin

240

(14)

Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Peter Singer

254

(9)

Feeding the Hungry

Jan Narveson

263

(8)

On the Obligation to Keep Informed about Distant Atrocities

Carlo Filice

271

(11)

Perils Amid Promises of Genetically Modified Foods

Mae Wan-Ho

282

(13)

V War and Violence

295

(70)

Just War Theory

Douglas P. Lackey

298

(9)

Was the [First] Gulf War a Just War?

Gregory S. Kavka

307

(11)

Is This [Kosovo] War Good? An Ethical Commentary

Georg Meggle

318

(10)

Terrorism and Morality

Haig Khatchadourian

328

(9)

Can Terrorism Be Justified?

Burleigh Wilkins

337

(8)

A Women's Politics of Resistance

Sara Ruddick

345

(8)

Letter from the Birmingham City Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.

353

(12)

VI Gender Roles and Morality

365

(68)

Domestic Violence Against Women and Autonomy

Marilyn Friedman

368

(12)

The Unnecessary Father

David Blankenhorn

380

(9)

Is Equality Tearing Families Apart?

Joel Anderson

389

(10)

Do Wedding Dresses Come in Lavender? The Prospects and Implications of Same-Sex Marriage

Angela Bolte

399

(14)

Is it Wrong to Discriminate on the Basis of Homosexuality?

Jeff Jordan

413

(10)

A Community of Secrets: The Separate World of Bedouin Women

Lila Abu-Lughod

423

(10)

VII Racial and Ethnic Discrimination

433

(138)

Philosophical and Social Implications of Race

Naomi Zack

439

(10)

White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies

Peggy McIntosh

449

(9)

The Color-Blind Principle

Bernard Boxill

458

(8)

Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference

Shelby Steele

466

(7)

Stories of Access and "Luck": Chicana/os, Higher Education, and the Politics of Incorporation

Gloria Holguin Cuádraz

473

(12)

Racisms

Kwame Anthony Appiah

485

(12)

Shared Responsibility for Racism

Larry May

497

(13)

An Almost Absolute Value in History

John T. Noonan Jr.

510

(6)

On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion

Mary Anne Warren

516

(9)

Why Abortion Is Immoral

Don Marquis

525

(7)

Selective Termination of Pregnancy and Women's Reproductive Autonomy

Christine Overall

532

Professional Responsibility, Reproductive Choice, and the Limits of Appropriate Intervention: The Battle Over RU

486

(62)

Kathleen Marie Dixon

541

(7)

The Problem of Coerced Abortion in China and Related Ethical Issues

Jing-Bao Nie

548

(12)

Contestation and Consensus: The Morality of Abortion in Japan

William R. LaFleur

560

(11)

IX Euthanasia, Sustaining and Creating Life

571

Active and Passive Euthanasia

James Rachels

575

(5)

The Intentional Termination of Life

Bonnie Steinbock

580

(7)

Objections to the Institutionalisation of Euthanasia

Stephen G. Potts

587

(5)

Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, the Way They Do It

Margaret P. Battin

592

(16)

Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Susan M. Wolf

608

(16)

Confucian Views on Suicide and Their Implications for Euthanasia

Ping-Cheung Lo

624

(18)

Buddhist Views of Suicide and Euthanasia

Carl B. Becker

642

(11)

The Survival Lottery

John Harris

653

(6)

Gene Therapies and the Pursuit of a Better Human

Sara Goering

659

(11)

The Wisdom of Repugnance

Leon Kass

670

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