As cutting-edge technologies continue to reshape the landscape of health care, we are faced with profound ethical and legal dilemmas on our journey towards a brighter future. This book invites you to develop your critical thinking skills in relation to a number of themes in bioethics and law, including our duties to care for each other, for nonhuman animals, and for the nonhuman world. Topics include embryo research, abortion, end of life care, research ethics, cloning, and genetic enginee...

Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously.In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food crime. Through discussions of food safety, food fraud, food insecurity, agricultural labou...

Onze kust: dat zijn zand, duinen, golven, een ijsje en over de dijk wandelen. En veel, veel meer. Dit boek neemt je mee in tal van ongekende verhalen over onze kust. Wist je dat je in een ver verleden te voet naar Engeland kon stappen? Dat kwallen eetbaar zijn? Dat duinen kunnen wandelen? Dat er bijna driehonderd scheepswrakken in de Belgische Noordzee liggen? En dat onze stranden duizend biljard zandkorrels tellen? 'Van a tot zee' toont je de wondere wereld van onze kust, ver van alle cli...

'Een jongen van vijftien schiet zichzelf dood met een wapen dat zes jaar geleden is gestolen uit de spreekkamer van een dokter. Dat maakt me nieuwsgierig, ja.' De zelfmoord van Gregory Hesse - een leerling aan een prestigieuze school in LA - is een schok. Zijn moeder weigert te geloven dat haar zoon zichzelf heeft doodgeschoten en weet rechercheur Decker ervan te overtuigen deze zaak nader te bekijken. De zelfmoord van de jongen zorgt ook voor onrust bij Peter Decker en Rina Lazarus zelf. ...

Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever.This accessible work examines various approaches that theorise, practise and nurture a creative construction towards varieties of democratic planning. Drawing from current socio-economic and ecological movemen...

Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 20024" by Chill SubsCarefully curated stories from After Dinner Conversation magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of sex and sexuality. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions.Story Summary ListHuman Contact: A college student heads to a party, gets high...

This book presents the reader with a comprehensive and structured understanding of the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It describes the main ethical questions that arise from the use of AI in different areas, as well as the contribution of various academic disciplines such as legal policy, environmental sciences, and philosophy of technology to the study of AI. AI has become ubiquitous and is significantly changing our lives, in many cases, for the better, but it comes with ethical...