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  • Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics

    Edición de Joseph Boyle, Leonard Sumner ...
    Series series Toronto Studies in Philosophy
    How should we attempt to resolve concrete bioethical problems? How are we to understand the role of bioethics in the health care system, government, and academe? This collection of original essays raises these and other questions about the nature of bioethics as a discipline. The contributors to the volume discuss various approaches to bioethical thinking and the political and institutional ... Leer más

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  • The Hateful and the Obscene

    Studies in the Limits of Free Expression

    Series series Toronto Studies in Philosophy
    In a series of landmark decisions since 1990, Canadian courts have shaped a distinctive approach to the regulation of obscenity, hate literature, and child pornography. Missing from the debate, however, has been any attempt to determine whether the legal status quo can be justified by reference to a framework of moral/political principles. The Hateful and the Obscene is intended to fill that gap.L ... Leer más

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    On Liberty - The Philosophy of Individual Freedom presents a profound exploration of the principles and implications of individual freedom. The anthology skillfully navigates the wide-ranging landscape of philosophical discourse, presenting an array of essays that underscore the dynamic interplay between personal liberty and societal constraints. Each piece contributes to a broader discussion on ... Leer más

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  • Acting for Freedom

    Fifty Years of Civil Liberties in Canada

    The Canadian Civil Liberties Association celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with this overview of its activities--sometimes quiet and sometimes strident--as a watchdog and safeguard for Canadians and their rights as citizens. Through a series of discussions and interviews, a picture of Canada over the last half-century evolves. From the Charter of Freedoms to life and death matters such as ... Leer más

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  • Privacy

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    de Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Some would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent of surveillance conducted by the security services in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere, concerns about individual privacy have significantly increased. The Internet generates risks, unimagined even twenty years ago, to the ... Leer más

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  • From Jim Crow to Civil Rights

    The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality

    A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations. In a highly provocative interpretation of the decision's connection to the civil rights movement, Klarman argues that ... Leer más

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  • Enigma A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell

    de Paul Bew ...
    Charles Stewart Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished Wicklow family, he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imaginable. He hated the colour green. He was not a dynamic speaker. He was cold and aloof and lacked the popular touch. None the less, from the late 1870s until his fall and death in 1891, he held the whole of ... Leer más

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  • Gay Marriage

    The Story of a Canadian Social Revolution

    Traducido por Louisa Blair, Robert Chodos ...
    A history of the fight for same-sex marriage in Canada.Few issues have dominated recent Canadian politics like the legalization of same-sex marriage.As a political correspondent for The Canadian Press, Sylvain Larocque had a front-row seat for this battle in the fight for gay rights in Canada. He recounts the story here on every level, from the legal decisions to the social impact to the political ... Leer más

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  • Modern Prometheus

    Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9

    de Jim Kozubek ...
    Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and effective methods for editing the human genome. This opens up startling new opportunities as well as significant ethical uncertainty. Tracing events across a fifty-year period, from the first gene splicing ... Leer más

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  • Place, Not Race

    A New Vision of Opportunity in America

    From a nationally recognized expert, a fresh and original argument for bettering affirmative actionRace-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases arrived at the Supreme Court. Since Ward Connerly kickstarted a state-by-state political mobilization against affirmative action in the mid-1990s, the percentage of four ... Leer más

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  • Troubled Bodies

    Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body

    Edición de Paul A. Komesaroff ...
    Setting out the implications of the postmodern condition for medical ethics, Troubled Bodies challenges the contemporary paradigms of medical ethics and reconceptualizes the nature of the field. Drawing on recent developments in philosophy, philosophy of science, and feminist theory, this volume seeks to expand familiar ethical reflections on medicine to incorporate new ways of thinking about the ... Leer más

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  • Confessions of a Sin Eater

    A Doctor's Reflections

    de Therese Zink ...
    As a family physician, the act of listening and holding a patient’s story is a vital part of healing for both the patient and the healer. The telling of a story gives the storyteller the ability to shape his/her experience and to gain some control over the events. The generous listening and receiving of the story heals both the storyteller and the doctor/healer. In this collection, Dr. Zink ... Leer más

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