Contemporary debates in applied ethics

Acknowledgments. Notes on Contributors. Introduction. Abortion. 1. Wrong of Abortion, Patrick Lee (Franciscan University of Steubenville) and Robert P. George (Princeton University). 2. Moral Permissibility of Abortion, Margaret Olivia Little (Georgetown University). Affirmative Action. 3. A Defense of Affirmative Action, Albert Mosley (Smith College). 4. Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic, Celia Wolf-Devine (Stonehill College) Animals. 5. Empty Cages: Animals Rights and Vivisection, Tom Regan (North Carolina State University). 6. Animals and Their Medical Use, R. G. Frey (Bowling Green State University). Capital Punishment. 7. A Defense of the Death Penalty, Louis P. Pojman (U.S. Military Academy). 8. Why We Should Put the Death Penalty to Rest, Stephen Nathanson (Northeastern University). Cloning. 9. Why I Oppose Human Cloning, Jeremy Rifkin (author of Biotech Century). 10. Poverty of Objections to Human Reproductive Cloning, John Harris (University of Manchester). Euthanasia. 11. In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, Michael Tooley (University of Colorado). 12. A Case Against Euthanasia, Daniel Callahan (Harvard Medical School). Immigration. 13. Immigration: Case for Limits, David Miller (University of Oxford). 14. Case for Open Immigration, Chandran Kukathas (University of Utah). Pornography. 15. Right to Get Turned On:Pornography, Autonomy, Equality, Andrew Altman (Georgia State University). 16. The Price We Pay?: Pornography and Harm, Susan J. Brison (Dartmouth College). Privacy and Civil Society. 17. Limits of Privacy, Amitai Etzioni (George Washington University). 18. Case for Privacy, David D. Friedman (Santa Clara University). Values in Nature. 19. Intrinsic Value of Nature in Public Policy: Case of the Endangered Species Act, J. Baird Callicott (University of North Texas). 20. Values in Nature: A Pluralistic Approach, Bryan G. Norton (Georgia Institute of Technology). World Hunger. 21. Famine Relief: Duties We Have to Others, Christopher Heath Wellman (Washington University in St. Louis). 22. Famine Relief and Human Virtue, Andrew I. Cohen (Georgia State University). Index