Matters of Life and Death - Regan, Tom / Beauchamp, Thomas L. / Callicott, J. Baird / Rachels, James / Bedau, Hugo Adam / Levenbook, Barbara
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MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH, Third Edition, is a collection of original essays by leading philosophers devoted to the major moral issues of the day, including abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, famine, war, suicide, the environment, and animal rights.
Table of contents:
1. Introduction, Tom Regan. 2. Euthanasia, James Rachels. 3. Suicide, Tom L. Beauchamp. 4. Morality and Violence: War, Revolution, Terrorism, Jan Narveson. 5. Capital Punishment, Hugo Bedau. 6. Abortion, Joel Feinberg and Barbara Baum Levenbook. 7. Ending World Hunger, Onora O'Neill. 8. Animals and the Value of Life,…mehr

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MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH, Third Edition, is a collection of original essays by leading philosophers devoted to the major moral issues of the day, including abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, famine, war, suicide, the environment, and animal rights.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction, Tom Regan. 2. Euthanasia, James Rachels. 3. Suicide, Tom L. Beauchamp. 4. Morality and Violence: War, Revolution, Terrorism, Jan Narveson. 5. Capital Punishment, Hugo Bedau. 6. Abortion, Joel Feinberg and Barbara Baum Levenbook. 7. Ending World Hunger, Onora O'Neill. 8. Animals and the Value of Life, Peter Singer. 9. The Search for an Environmental Ethic, J. Baird Callicott.

Matters of Life and Death, 3/e is a collection of original essays devoted to the major moral issues of the day, including abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, famine, war, suicide, the environment, and animal rights. The essays are written by moral philosophers who are among the leading thinkers of the world. The previous two editions of this book have been heralded for the clarity and accessibility of the essays, and both editions have enjoyed strong options. The third edition is even better.
Autorenporträt
Tom Beauchamp is a well known and highly respected ethics professor. In addition to teaching at Georgetown University, he has served as a senior research scholar the Kennedy Instiute for the Study of Human Reproduction and Ethics. He has authored numerous successful texts, including Contemporary Issues in Bioethics (WAdsworth) and Ethical Theory in Business (PH). He was the General Editor with David Norton and M.A. Stewart of The Critical Ediotn of the Works of David Hume (Princeton U Press). He was formerly the Chairman of the Committee on Philosophy and Medicine of the American Philosophical Association and earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.