Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach

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

• ISBN13: 9780135752913
• ISBN10: 0135752914
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This anthology provides an introduction to applied ethics with a multicultural approach, offering an alternative to most competing texts that are centered around North American perspectives. In this revision authors build on some of the traditional topics such as aids, racial and sexual discrimination and environmental ethics.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(24)
Antiracism, Multiculturalism, and Interracial Community: Three Educational Values for a Multicultural Society	14	(11)
Lawrence A. Blum
I Human Rights and Justice	25	(90)
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights	30	(4)
Utilitarianism	34	(10)
John Stuart Mill
A Simplified Account of Kant's Ethics	44	(7)
Onora O'Neill
Taking Rights Seriously	51	(10)
Ronald Dworkin
Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights	61	(11)
Charlotte Bunch
Islam, Islamic Law, and the Dilemma of Cultural Legitimacy for Universal Human Rights	72	(11)
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
The African Context of Human Rights	83	(7)
Claude Ake
Rites as Rights: The Confucian Alternative	90	(12)
Roger T. Ames
A Buddhist Response to the Nature of Human Rights	102	(13)
Kenneth Inada
II Environmental Ethics	115	(66)
The Land Ethic	120	(13)
Aldo Leopold
A "Good" Environment: Just One of a Set of Human Objectives	133	(6)
William Baxter
Traditional American Indian and Western European Attitudes Toward Nature: An Overview	139	(12)
J. Baird Callicott
On the Environmental Ethics of the Tao and the Ch'i	151	(9)
Chung-ying Cheng
Environmental Racism, American Indians, and Monitored Retrieval Storage Sites for Radioactive Waste	160	(10)
Shari Collins-Chobanian
Development, Ecology and Women	170	(11)
Vandana Shiva
III Hunger and Poverty	181	(82)
Carrying Capacity as an Ethical Concept	186	(9)
Garrett Hardin
Population: Delusion and Reality	195	(21)
Amartya Sen
Famine, Affluence, and Morality	216	(10)
Peter Singer
Rights and the Duty to Bring Aid	226	(10)
John Arthur
On the Obligation to Keep Informed about Distant Atrocities	236	(12)
Carlo Filice
Making Peace with the Earth: Indigenous Agriculture and the Green Revolution	248	(15)
Deane Curtin
IV War and Violence	263	(64)
Just War Theory	268	(10)
Douglas P. Lackey
The Practice of Satyagraha	278	(7)
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Terrorism and Morality	285	(10)
Haig Khatchadourian
Can Terrorism Be Justified?	295	(8)
Burleigh Wilkins
A Women's Politics of Resistance	303	(9)
Sara Ruddick
Letter from the Birmingham City Jail	312	(15)
Martin Luther King, Jr
V Gender Roles and Morality	327	(68)
Images of Relationship	331	(11)
Carol Gilligan
Of Mothers and Families, Men and Sex	342	(10)
Marilyn Friedman
The Unnecessary Father	352	(10)
David Blankenhorn
Is Equality Tearing Families Apart?	362	(11)
Joel Anderson
A Community of Secrets: The Separate World of Bedouin Women	373	(9)
Lila Abu-Lughod
American Indian Women at the Center of Indigenous Resistance in Contemporary North America	382	(13)
M. Annette Jaimes
Theresa Halsey
VI Racial and Ethnic Discrimination	395	(62)
The Color-Blind Principle	400	(8)
Bernard Boxill
Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference	408	(7)
Shelby Steele
Racisms	415	(13)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Sexism and Racism: Some Conceptual Differences	428	(11)
Laurence Thomas
The Red and the Black	439	(7)
Vine Deloria, Jr
Shared Responsibility for Racism	446	(11)
Larry May
VII The AIDS Epidemic	457	(74)
If Only AIDS Were Different!	461	(12)
John Harris
Soren Holm
AIDS and Insurance: The Rationale for AIDS-Related Testing	473	(9)
Karen A. Clifford
Russel P. Iuculano
AIDS and Bowers v. Hardwick	482	(11)
Christine Pierce
AIDS and Legal Paternalism	493	(10)
David A. Conway
AIDS and Human Rights: An Intercontinental Perspective	503	(14)
Carol A. Tauer
The Ethical Design of an AIDS Vaccine Trial in Africa	517	(14)
Nicholas A. Christakis
VIII Abortion	531	(54)
An Almost Absolute Value in History	535	(6)
John T. Noonan, Jr
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion	541	(8)
Mary Anne Warren
Why Abortion Is Immoral	549	(8)
Don Marquis
Selective Termination of Pregnancy and Women's Reproductive Autonomy	557	(10)
Christine Overall
Can Late Abortion Be Ethically Justified?	567	(6)
Ren-Zong Qiu
Chun-Zhi Wang
Yuan Gu
Contestation and Consensus: The Morality of Abortion in Japan	573	(12)
William LaFleur
IX Euthanasia and Sustaining Life	585
Active and Passive Euthanasia	589	(5)
James Rachels
The Intentional Termination of Life	594	(8)
Bonnie Steinbock
Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, the Way They Do It	602	(13)
Margaret Battin
Buddhist Views of Suicide and Euthansia	615	(12)
Carl B. Becker
The Survival Lottery	627	(7)
John Harris
Who Shall Be Saved? An African Answer	634	(9)
John F. Kilner
Gender, Race, and Class in the Delivery of Health Care	643
Susan Sherwin