Frederick Adams, Editor
 
The nature of what makes something right or wrong may not change, but the things that confront us and that are right or wrong change with the lay of the land. New ethical issues emerge from changes in the social and political landscape and from the development of new technologies. This volume has its origins in the conference "Morality in the 21st Century" that was held under the joint sponsorship of the American Philosophical Association and the University of Delaware in 2001. The conference involved members of the academic community, government, industry, health care workers, doctors, lawyers, and the public in serious discussions of matters that transcend purely academic boundaries. The articles in this collection attempt to offer at least the outlines of solutions to several crucial ethical problems and are written for the non-specialized reader. Ethical Issues for the Twenty-First Century has been published in cooperation with the Journal of Philosophical Research in an effort to advance the discussion of issues of concern to all citizen of the global community.
 
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Table of Contents

• Preface

• BIOTECHNOLOGY

Nick Bostrom, Transhumanist Values
Michael Boylan, The Ethical Limits of Science
John Alan Cohan, Ethics of Genetic Enhancement of Aptitude and Personality Traits
Paul T. Durbin, Ethics and New Technologies
Martin Harvey, Against "Genetic Dis-Enhancement": An Argument for a Substantive Restriction on the Right to Reproductive Autonomy
David M. Kaplan, What's Wrong with Genetically Modified Food?
Adam D. Moore, Privacy, Liberty, Property, and the Genetic Modification of Humans
Mark Neunder, Can Genetic Enhancement be Obligatory? Four Arguments
Melinda A. Roberts, Supernumerary Pregnancies, the Harm Issue, and the Limits of Constitutional Privacy
Sandra Shapshay, The Human Being in the Age of Mechanical Reproduciton: An Argument Against Human Cloning
Adrian M. Viens, Justice, Liberal Neutrality, and the New Genetics

• CORPORATIONS AND THE WORKPLACE

Robin O. Andresasen, Institutional Sexism
Denis G. Arnold and Norman E. Bowie, Sweatshops and Respect for Persons
Nicholas Crosson, Corporations, Democratic Legitimacy, and Republicanism

• ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS

John Mizzoni, Darwinian Ethics and Moral Realism
Nathan Nobis, Feminist Ethics without Feminist Ethical Theory
Bonnie Talbert, What an Evolutionary Account of Ethics Fails to Explain

• GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH

Janet Borgerson, Preparing Ethics for the Future: Addressing the "Global Basic Structure" in the Ethics of International Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects
Steven Lee, Globalization and Secession
Sarah Clark Miller, The Invisibility of Gender: A Feminist Commentary on Age-Based Healthcare Rationing
Dale Murray, Misconceptions of Choice in Health Care Voucher Schemes
Aurora Plomer, Rights, Principles and Political Values in Medical Research: The ACHRE Report and the Council of Europe's Convention of Human Rights and Biomedicine

• JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Douglas Birsch, Human Rights: The Morality of the Twenty-First Century
Dale Dorsey, Moral Failure and Agent-Relative Prerogatives
Roxanne Marie Kurtz, Meanness, Generosity, and Rawlsian Distributive Justice
Andrew Light, What is a Pragmatic Philosophy?
Adrian Kwek, Dworkin and the Archimedean's Lever
Stephen Nathanson, Equality, Sufficiency, Decency: Three Criteria of Economic Justice

• ASSISTED DEATH AND TERRORISM

David K. Chan, Active Voluntary Euthanasia and the Problem of Intending Death
David Detmer, Deterrence and the Death Penalty
Paul Viminitz, A Defence of Terrorism