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Taking sides : Clashing views on controversial moral issues / Edited by Stephen Satris - Guilford : McGraw-Hill c2002. - xvii, 351p. ; 24 cm. - McGraw-Hill contemporary learning series .





CONTENT

PART 1. FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN MORALITY
Issue 1. Is morality relative culture

Issue 2. Does morality need religion

PART 2. GENGER, SEX, AND REPRODUCTION
Issue3. Does feminism provide a positive direction for society

Issue4. Should the navy assign servicewomen to submarine duty

Issue5. Would Vermont's civil union law be good for other states

Issue6. Is abortion immoral

Issue7. Do people have a right to pornography

Issue8. Should the U.N treat voluntary prostitution as a form of women's labor

Issue9. Should human cloning be banned

Issue10. Must sex involve commitment

PART 3. LAW AND SOCIETY
Issue11. Should drugs be legalized

Issue12. Should "safer smoking" kits be distributed to crack users?

Issue13. Does America need a federal hate-crime law?

Issue14. Is affirmative action fair?

Issue15. Should hand guns be banned ?

Issue16. Should the death penalties be retained?

Issue17. Should physician-assisted suicide be legalized in the States?

Issue18. Should Washington put more money into faith-based charities?

PART 4. BEYOND THE SPECIES
Issue19. Should great apes have some of the legal rights of persons?

ISBN: 007248036-X 10947604 = Taking sides. Clashing views in adolescence

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Adolescence--Periodicals.
Adolescent psychology--.
Child development

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Periodicals.

Dewey Class. No.: 170.22 / TAK