Introducing applied ethics / edited by Brenda Almond.

Contents;

Part I: The personal dimension: Family and relationships
1. Trouble with families?
2. Love and personal relationships
3. Between the sexes: Care or justice?
4. Children who run: Ethics and homelessness

Part II: Public and professional dimensions: Ethics and the professions
5. Education: Conserving tradition
6. Ethics, law and the quality of the media
7. Reconciling business imperatives and moral virtues
8. The gene revolution
9. Ethical decision-making in science and technology
10. Psychiatry, compulsory treatment and the value based model of metal illness

Part III: The legal dimension: Crime and punishment
11. Crime and responsibility
12. Is psychopathy a moral concept
13. Life, death and the law
14. Ethical questions facing law enforcement agents

Part IV: Economic and political dimensions: Politics and society
15. Is efficiency ethical? Resource issues in health care
16. Liberty or community? Defining the post-marxist agenda
17. A defence of property rights and capitalism
18. Nationalism and intervention

Part V: International and global dimensions: Extending the moral community
19. Rich and poor
20. War, terrorism and ethical consistency
21. Enlarging the community: Companion animals
22. Ethics and the environment: The global perspective

Includes bibliographical references and index.