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  • Perfect Me

    Beauty as an Ethical Ideal

    by Heather Widdows ...
    How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today’s worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Women and Violence

    The Agency of Victims and Perpetrators

    Edited by Heather Widdows, Herjeet Marway ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Chapter 4 of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. Topics covered include rape, pornography, prostitution, suicide bombing and domestic violence. The volume contributes to the philosophical and theoretical debate, as well as offering practical, social and political ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Global Ethics

    An Introduction

    by Heather Widdows ...
    Global ethics addresses some of the most pressing ethical concerns today, including rogue states, torture, scarce resources, poverty, migration, consumption, global trade, medical tourism, and humanitarian intervention. It is both topical and important. How we resolve (or fail to resolve) the dilemmas of global ethics shapes how we understand ourselves, our relationships with each other and the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Moral Vision of Iris Murdoch

    by Heather Widdows ...
    Iris Murdoch's moral philosophy, although highly influential in 20th century moral theory, is somewhat unsystematic and inaccessible. In this work Widdows outlines the moral vision of Iris Murdoch in its entirety and draws out the implications of her thought for the contemporary ethical debate, discussing such aspects of Murdoch's work as the influence of Plato on her conception of The Good, the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics

    Edited by Darrel Moellendorf, Heather Widdows ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics
    Global ethics focuses on the most pressing contemporary ethical issues - poverty, global trade, terrorism, torture, pollution, climate change and the management of scarce recourses. It draws on moral and political philosophy, political and social science, empirical research, and real-world policy and activism. The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics is an outstanding reference source to the key ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Global Social Justice

    Edited by Heather Widdows, Nicola Smith ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Global Social Justice provides a distinctive contribution to the growing debate about global justice and global ethics. It brings a multi-disciplinary voice – which spans philosophical, political and social disciplines – and emphasises the social element of global justice in both theory and practice.Bringing together a number of internationally renowned scholars, the book explicitly addresses ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Connected Self

    The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual

    by Heather Widdows ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    Currently, the ethics infrastructure – from medical and scientific training to the scrutiny of ethics committees – focuses on trying to reform informed consent to do a job which it is simply not capable of doing. Consent, or choice, is not an effective ethical tool in public ethics and is particularly problematic in the governance of genetics. Heather Widdows suggests using alternative and ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • The Governance of Genetic Information

    Who Decides?

    Edited by Heather Widdows, Caroline Mullen ...
    Series Book 9 - Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics
    This volume maps the areas of ethical concern in the debate regarding the governance of genetic information, and suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation in order to inform its restructuring. Genetic governance is at the heart of medical and scientific developments, and is connected to global exploitation, issues of commodification, commercialisation and ownership, the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    Ideals and Realities

    by David Held ...
    This book sets out the case for a cosmopolitan approach to contemporary global politics. It presents a systematic theory of cosmopolitanism, explicating its core principles and justifications, and examines the role many of these principles have played in the development of global politics, such as framing the human rights regime. The framework is then used to address some of the most pressing ... Read more

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  • Human Security

    Concepts and implications

    by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Anuradha Chenoy ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    This book, now available in paperback, traces the key evolutions in the development of the concept of human security, the various definitions and critiques, how it relates to other concepts, and what it implies for polities, politics, and policy.Human security is an important subject for the whole world, in particular Asia, as it deals with interactions among fields of social change, such as ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Damien Cahill, Melinda Cooper, Martijn Konings, David Primrose ...
    Over the last two decades, ‘neoliberalism’ has emerged as a key concept within a range of social science disciplines including sociology, political science, human geography, anthropology, political economy, and cultural studies.The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism showcases the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship in this field by bringing together a team of global experts. Across seven key ... Read more

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  • Obamacare: Complete Law, Latest Statistics & Republican's Counterproposal

    The Affordable Care Act, Its Impact, and the Republican Alternative

    by White House, United States Congress ...
    This e-book contains the complete text of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The edition also includes the latest data on health coverage and health care expenses, as well as the Republicans' counter arguments and their proposed bill. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, is a ... Read more

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