Does Welfare Work? Why Have Welfare? Distributive Justice. The Geneva Conventions and Guantanamo Bay. "Torture and the Ticking Bomb," David Luban. "Make Torture an Option," Alan Dershowitz. Readings: "Violence, Terrorism, and Justice," R. Karla Faye Tucker and Stanley "Tookie" Williams: Rehabilitation on Death Row? A Failed Experiment? Warren McClesky. "Capital Punishment and Social Defense," Hugo Adam Bedau. "On Deterrence and the Death Penalty," Ernest van den Haag. Readings: "Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment," J. Retentionist Arguments (for Capital Punishment). Abolitionist Arguments (against Capital Punishment). Case Presentations: Recommendations of the President's Council on Human Cloning. "Stem Cells, Biotechnology, and Human Rights: Implications for a Posthuman Future," Paul Lauritzen. "The Morality of Killing Human Embryos," Bonnie Steinbock. "Moral Status of Cloning Humans", Michael Tooley. Readings: "The Wisdom of Repugnance," Leon R. Why Clone Humans? Moral and Legal Issues. Terri Schiavo: Voluntary Euthanasia or Murder? 6. Legalized Assisted Suicide and Decriminalized Euthanasia. Case Presentations: I Did It Because I Loved My Son. "A Moral Principle about Killing," Richard Brandt. "Active and Passive Euthanasia," James Rachels. ![]() Readings: "The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia," J. Arguments against Voluntary (Active) Euthanasia. Arguments for Voluntary (Active) Euthanasia. Case Presentations: Conceived in Violence, Born in Hate. "Virtue Theory and Abortion," Rosalind Hursthouse. "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion," Mary Ann Warren. "A Defense of Abortion," Judith Jarvis Thomson. Readings: "An Almost Absolute Value in History," John T. Department of Public Health: A Right of Gay Marriage? A Slippery Slope to Polygamy? 4. Texas: Private Rights and Public Morality. "Why Homosexuality is Abnormal," Michael Levin. Readings: "Sexual Morality," Roger Scruton. "The Need for More than Justice," Annette C. Guided by the authors' extensive introductions-with readings exhibiting divergent positions and particularly timely cases-APPLYING ETHICS provides students with a model for considering critically many of the ethical dilemmas that abound in contemporary life. Providing readers with a basic overview of the most important ethical theories in the first chapter, each subsequent chapter takes a contemporary ethical issue as its focus. Cengage Applying Ethics A Text With Readings by Jeffrey Olen, Julie Van CampĪ perennial bestseller, APPLYING ETHICS: A TEXT WITH READINGS introduces students to ethics via a well-proven formula of engaging commentary, seminal readings, and thought-provoking cases drawn from a wide range of contemporary social debates.
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