Truth, Trust and Medicine investigates trust and honesty in medicine. It looks at the doctor-patient relationship, raising questions which disturb...
Ethics and the University brings together two closely related topics, the practice of ethics in the university ("academic ethics") and the teaching of...
People, as Aristotle said, are political animals. Mainstream political philosophy, however, has largely neglected humankind's animal nature as beings...
The fundamental ethical problem in bankruptcy is that insolvents have promised to pay their debts but can not keep their promise. The Ethics of...
Coercive Care asks probing and challenging questions regarding the use of coercion in health care and the social services. The book combines...
Why would the work of the 17th century philosopher Benedict de Spinoza concern us today? How can Spinoza shed any light on contemporary thought?In...
In a world of rapid technological advances, the moral issues raised by life and death choices in healthcare remain obscure. Life and Death in...
This book uses the philosophy of Wittgenstein as a perspective from which to challenge the very idea of critical social theory, represented...
In The Ethical Primate, Mary Midgley, 'one of the sharpest critical pens in the West' according to the Times Literary Supplement, addresses the...
Surveying the historical development and the present condition of utilitarian ethics, Geoffrey Scarre examines the major philosophers from Lao Tzu in...