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Includes more than 40 articles on integrity and misconduct, biomedical research, the social and disciplinary contexts of science, research in the social sciences, the social responsibility of science and scientists, and other core issues in research ethics.

Designed to give a snapshot of the seminal work in the philosophy of education and the input of ethical issues upon that work, this book provides a tour of the profession and pivotal issues that confront it.

The traditional definition of development ethics considers the ethical and value questions posed by development theory, planning and practice. This title illustrates a wide range of academic and practitioner writings on the theories and concepts of development ethics as well as ethical development policy and practice.

Brings together the essays in the field of police ethics.

Developments such as the 'new wars' or the growing privatisation of warfare, and the ever more sophisticated military technology, present the military with difficult ethical challenges. This book gives a hearing to the main ethical approaches to war: just war theory, consequentialism, and pacifism.

Gathers the prominent contributions to this field, ranging from the philosophy of punishment through to ethical appraisals of incarceration, the professional responsibilities of prison personnel, and formative work in restorative justice. This book also provides a research agenda to help shape the development of a comprehensive correctional ethic.

Collection of articles published since engineering ethics developed a distinct scholarly field in the late 1970s that help define the field of engineering ethics. This volume addresses questions such as what is engineering, what is engineering ethics, what professional responsibilities do engineers have and why, and more.

The study of the ethical issues related to computer use developed primarily in the 1980s, but computer ethics, as the field became known, flourished in the following decades. This book contains articles on the important issues, organised into sections on the history and nature of computer ethics, cyberspace, values and technology, and more.

Intended as a reference for those interested in the relationship between business strategy and business ethics, broadly conceived. This work includes an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the articles but it also relates them systematically to a fundamental dualism involving values, ethics and politics.

Brings together over thirty of the foremost contributions to environmental ethics. This title also unites them through an introductory essay which appraises both strengths and weaknesses and presents a distinctive view of the subject. It covers areas such as the land ethic, Deep Ecology, biocentric approaches, and environmental virtue ethics.

These essays focus on the study of the ethical issues related to computer use. Grouped into sections, the essays cover all the important issues ranging from the history and nature of computer ethics, cyberspace, values and technology, and responsibility and professionalism, to privacy and surveillance, what computers should not do, and morality and machines.