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|a Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics
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|a Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Issues of Life and Death -- Issues in Justice -- Issues of Privacy and the Good -- Issues of Cosmospolitanism and Community -- Ethical Theory -- CHAPTER ONE: Theories of Ethics -- Case Ethics -- Normative Ethical Theory -- Meta-ethics -- Contractarianism/Contractualism -- Contractarianism -- Contractualism -- Consequentialism -- Deontology -- Virtue Theory -- CHAPTER TWO: The Wrong of Abortion -- Human Embryos and Fetuses are Complete (though Immature) Human Beings
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|a No-Person Arguments: The Dualist Version -- No-Person Arguments: The Evaluative Version -- The Argument that Abortion is Justified as Non-intentional Killing -- CHAPTER THREE: The Moral Permissibility of Abortion -- Introduction -- The Moral Status of Embryos and Early Fetuses -- Abortion and Gestational Assistance -- Intimacy, Pregnancy, and Motherhood -- Norms of Responsible Creation -- CHAPTER FOUR: In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide -- Important Concepts and Distinctions -- A Fundamental Defense of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia -- The argument
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|a The soundness of the argument -- Voluntary Passive Euthanasia versus Voluntary Active Euthanasia -- The argument -- An evaluation of the second argument -- Should Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia Be Legal? -- CHAPTER FIVE: A Case Against Euthanasia -- Suicide: The Way (Rarely) Taken -- Three Arguments in Favor of Euthanasia -- Euthanasia as a Social, not Private, Act -- Euthanasia and the Law -- The Dutch Experience -- Not Pain but Loss of Control -- Catering to a Small Minority -- CHAPTER SIX: Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection -- The Benefits Argument
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|a What the Benefits Argument Omits -- The overestimation of human benefits -- The underestimation of human harms -- Comparisons across species -- Human Vivisection and Human Rights -- Why the Benefits Argument Begs the Question -- The Children of Willowbrook -- The Basis of Human Rights -- Why Animals Have Rights -- Challenging Human and Animal Equality: Speciesism -- Other Objections, Other Replies -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Animals and Their Medical Use -- The Abolitionist Appeal to Animal Rights -- The "Anything Goes" View on Animals -- The Value of Lives and Quality of Life
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|a Two Senses of Moral Community -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER EIGHT: A Defense of Affirmative Action -- Introduction -- Affirmative Action as a Remedy for Past Injustices -- Affirmative Action as a Form of Compensatory Justice -- Standardized Tests and Race -- Affirmative Action and Equal Protection -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER NINE: Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic -- Framing the Issue -- Disentangling Race and Sex -- Affirmative Action for Black People: Evaluating the Arguments -- The compensatory (or backward-looking) argument -- Corrective argument -- Forward-looking arguments
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