CONTEMPORARY DEBATES IN APPLIED ETHICS

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Acknowledgments -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Abortion -- Ch. 1. The wrong of abortion / Patrick Lee and Robert P. George -- Ch. 2. The moral permissibility of abortion / Margaret Olivia Little -- Affirmative action -- Ch. 3. A defense of affirmative action / Albert Mosley -- Ch. 4. Preferential policies have become toxic / Celia Wolf-Devine -- Animals -- Ch. 5. Empty cages: animals rights and vivisection / Tom Regan -- Ch. 6. Animals and their medical use / R.G. Frey -- Capital punishment -- Ch. 7. A defense of the death penalty / Louis P. Pojman -- Ch. 8. Why we should put the death penalty to rest / Stephen Nathanson -- Cloning -- Ch. 9. Why I oppose human cloning / Jeremy Rifkin -- Ch. 10. The poverty of objections to human reproductive cloning / John Harris - - Euthanasia -- Ch. 11. In defense of voluntary active euthanasia and assisted suicide / Michael Tooley -- Ch. 12. A case against euthanasia / Daniel Callahan -- Immigration -- Ch. 13. Immigration: the case for limits / David Miller -- Ch. 14. The case for open immigration / Chandran Kukathas -- Pornography -- Ch. 15. The right to get turned on: pornography, autonomy, equality / Andrew Altman - - Ch. 16. "The price we pay"? Pornography and harm / Susan J. Brison -- Privacy and civil society -- Ch. 17. The limits of privacy / Amitai Etzioni -- Ch. 18. The case for privacy / David D. Friedman -- Values in nature -- Ch. 19. The intrinsic value of nature in public policy: the case of the Endangered Species Act / J. Baird Callicott -- Ch. 20. Values in nature: a pluralistic approach / Bryan G. Norton -- World hunger -- Ch. 21. Famine relief: the duties we have to others / Christopher Heath Wellman - - Ch. 22. Famine relief and human virtue / Andrew I. Cohen -- Index