Applied Ethics : A Multicultural Approach

by May, Larry; Sharratt, Shari Collins; May, Larry; Collins-Chobanian, Shari

• ISBN13: 9780130688422
• ISBN10: 0130688428
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-12-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Table of Contents

Preface	p. IX
Introduction	p. 1
Antiracism, Multiculturalism, and Interracial Community: Three Educational Values for a Multicultural Society	p. 14
Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation	p. 23
Human Rights and Justice	p. 37
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights	p. 42
Utilitarianism	p. 46
A Simplified Account of Kant's Ethics	p. 55
Taking Rights Seriously	p. 62
Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights	p. 72
Islam, Islamic Law, and the Dilemma of Cultural Legitimacy for Universal Human Rights	p. 83
The African Context of Human Rights	p. 94
Rites as Rights: The Confucian Alternative	p. 101
A Buddhist Response to the Nature of Human Rights	p. 112
Environmental Ethics	p. 125
The Land Ethic	p. 129
A "Good" Environment: Just One of the Set of Human Objectives	p. 142
Look to the Mountain: Reflections on Indigenous Ecology	p. 148
On the Environmental Ethics of the Tao and the Ch'i	p. 158
Environmental Racism, American Indians, and Monitored Retrievable Storage Sites for Radioactive Waste	p. 167
Development, Ecology, and Women	p. 177
Hunger and Poverty	p. 189
Carrying Capacity as an Ethical Concept	p. 194
Population: Delusion and Reality	p. 203
Famine, Affluence, and Morality	p. 224
Rights and the Duty to Bring Aid	p. 234
On the Obligation to Keep Informed about Distant Atrocities	p. 244
Making Peace with the Earth: Indigenous Agriculture and the Green Revolution	p. 256
War and Violence	p. 271
Just War Theory	p. 275
The Practice of Satyagraha	p. 285
Terrorism and Morality	p. 291
Can Terrorism Be Justified?	p. 301
A Women's Politics of Resistance	p. 309
Letter from the Birmingham City Jail	p. 318
Psychological Violence, Physical Violence, and Racial Oppression	p. 330
Gender Roles and Morality	p. 341
Images of Relationship	p. 345
The Unnecessary Father	p. 355
Is Equality Tearing Families Apart?	p. 365
Do Wedding Dresses Come in Lavender? The Prospects and Implications of Same-Sex Marriage	p. 376
A Community of Secrets: The Separate World of Bedouin Women	p. 392
American Indian Women at the Center of Indigenous Resistance in Contemporary North America	p. 401
Racial and Ethnic Discrimination	p. 415
Last Battlefield: Biological Theories of Race and the Future of American Society	p. 422
White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies	p. 434
The Color-Blind Principle	p. 444
Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference	p. 451
Stories of Access and "Luck": Chicana/os, Higher Education, and the Politics of Incorporation	p. 458
Racisms	p. 471
Shared Responsibility for Racism	p. 484
Abortion	p. 495
An Almost Absolute Value in History	p. 499
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion	p. 505
Why Abortion Is Immoral	p. 514
Selective Termination of Pregnancy and Women's Reproductive Autonomy	p. 523
Professional Responsibility, Reproductive Choice, and the Limits of Appropriate Intervention: The Battle Over RU 486	p. 532
Can Late Abortion Be Ethically Justified?	p. 539
Contestation and Consensus: The Morality of Abortion in Japan	p. 545
Euthanasia and Sustaining Life	p. 557
Active and Passive Euthanasia	p. 561
The Intentional Termination of Life	p. 566
Objections to the Institutionalisation of Euthanasia	p. 574
Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, the Way They Do It	p. 579
Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia	p. 592
Buddhist Views of Suicide and Euthanasia	p. 609
The Survival Lottery	p. 620
Who Shall Be Saved? An African Answer	p. 626
Technology, Ethics, and the Remaking of the Self	p. 637
Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self	p. 640
Gene Therapies and the Pursuit of a Better Human	p. 653
The Identity of Clones	p. 664
A Life in the Shadow: One Reason Why We Should Not Clone Humans	p. 671
Civil Rights for Clones, Cyborgs, and Computers: The Movements of the Future	p. 675
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