The Social Self by David Bakhurst (Editor); Christine Sypnowich (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Inquiries in Social Construction Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Much discussion in recent years has centred on the status of the self, identity and subjectivity in the light of powerful arguments about the social origins of personhood. The Social Selfpresents many dimensions of the debate, spanning psychology, philosophy, politics and feminist theory, and provides a ...Show more
Regulating How We Die - The Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide by Linda L. Emanuel (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
The Supreme Court has ruled that states may prohibit physician-assisted suicide. Expressing the views of his fellow justices, Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote, "Americans are engaged in an earnest and profound debate about the morality, legality, and practicality of physician-assisted suicide. Our holding ...Show more
A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem by Georges Canguilhem; François Delaporte (Editor); Arthur Goldhammer (Translator); Paul Rabinow (Introduction by); Camille Limoges (Contribution by)
$76.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Georges Canguilhem is one of France's foremost historians of science. Trained as a medical doctor as well as a philosopher, he combined these practices to demonstrate to philosophers that there could be no epistemology without concrete study of the actual development of the sciences and to historians th ...Show more
Responsibility Matters by Peter A. French
$14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Most of us spend a fair amount of time trying to avoid responsibility. That's not too astounding. What is surprising, says Peter French, is that we tend to dodge the good variety as well as the bad. "The problem for most of us, excepting moral masochists, is that responsibility does get doled," he write ...Show more
Practical Reasoning in Bioethics by James F. Childress
$25.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Medical Ethics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is a valuable clarification, re-statement and defence of principlism as an approach to applied ethics. It is strongly recommended to many teachers of bioethics..." --Journal of the American Medical AssociationChildress' book deserves careful study by all concerned with the ethical aspect of contemp ...Show more
Medical Ethics Today - Its Practice and Philosophy by BMA Staff
$16.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
This text answers the range of questions commonly raised and relates the long accepted standards which have governed professional behaviour to newly emerging situations. It aims to produce a tool for doctors, whilst recognizing that debate of ethical issues extends beyond the medical profession.
Hare and Critics. Essays on Moral Thinking by Douglas Seanor and N. Fotion (eds)
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
This collection of thirteen original essays by such well-known philosophers as Thomas Nagel, Peter Singer, J.O. Urmson, David A.J. Richards, James Griffin, R.B. Brandt, John C. Harsanyi, T.M. Scanlon, and others discusses the philosophy of R.M. Hare put forth in his book Moral Thinking, including his th ...Show more
Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Society and Enlightenment Values by A.C. Grayling
$14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
"The means of defence against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." James Madison Our societies, says Anthony Grayling, are under attack not only from the threat of terrorism, but also from our governments' attempts to fight that threat by reducing freedom in our o ...Show more