Moral controversies : race, class, and gender in applied ethics / edited by Steven Jay Gold.

Contents;

1. Abortion
1. Abortion and the concept of a person
2. Ethics, feminism, and abortion
3. Why abortion is immoral?
4. Racism, birth control, and reproductive rights

2. Surrogate motherhood
6. Selling babies and selling bodies
7. Commodification or compensation: A reply to Ketchum
8. Surrogate motherhood: The challenge for feminists

3. Gay rights
9. Is homosexuality bad sexuality?
10. Why homosexuality is abnormal
etc.

4. Euthanasia
12. Active and passive euthanasia
13. Must patients always be given food and water?
14. Objection to the institutionalisation of euthanasia
etc.

5. Testing
16. privacy, polygraphs, and work
17. The Coors polygraphs
18. Drug testing in employment
19. The federal railroad association drug test
etc.

6. The death penalty
24. Capital punishment, retributive justice, and social defense
25. On deterrence and the death penalty
etc.

7. Acquaintance rape
30. Fallen angels: The representation of violence against women in legal culture
31. The mind that burns in each body: Women, rape, and racial violence
32. Date rape: A feminist analysis
etc.

8. Pornography
34. Pornography, civil rights, and speech
35. False promises: Feminist antipornography legislation
36. Pornography and the alienation of male sexuality

9. Economic justice and welfare rights
37. Radical egalitarianism
38. From liberty to welfare
39. The nonexistence of basic welfare rights
40. Women, welfare, and the politics of need interpretation
etc.

10. Affirmative action, comparable worth, and sexual harassment
43. A defense of programs of preferential treatment
44. Reserve discrimination as unjustified
45. Debate over comparable worth: Facts and rhetoric
46. An argument against comparable worth
etc.

11. Animals and the environment
49. Ecology and morality
50. People of penguins
51. Feminism and ecology: Making connections
52. All animals are equal
etc.

Includes bibliographical references.