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The Role of Science in Public Policy
Does science have a place when it comes to making public policy? The answer might not be as simple as many people think. Ideally, scientists discover facts, and those facts inform policy. But policy undermines the open-ended nature of scientific inquiry, and scientists end up representing an agenda rather than presenting objective truths to be used to make decisions that impact the public. Through a variety of perspectives, this volume explores who wins and who loses when science and politics mix.
University Ethics
Stories about ethical issues at universities make headlines every day. From sexual violence to racial conflict, from the treatment of adjuncts to cheating, students, professors, and administrators face countless ethical trials. And yet, very few resources exist to assist universities in developing an ethical culture. University Ethics addresses this challenge. Each chapter studies a facet of university life—including athletics, gender, faculty accountability, and more—highlights the ethical hotspots, explains why they occur, and proposes best practices. Professional ethics are a key component of training for numerous other fields, such as business management, medicine, law, and journalis...
Engineering Ethics
An engaging, accessible survey of the ethical issues faced by engineers, designed for students The first engineering ethics textbook to use debates as the framework for presenting engineering ethics topics, this engaging, accessible survey explores the most difficult and controversial issues that engineers face in daily practice. Written by a leading scholar in the field of engineering and computer ethics, Deborah Johnson approaches engineering ethics with three premises: that engineering is both a technical and a social endeavor; that engineers don’t just build things, they build society; and that engineering is an inherently ethical enterprise.
Ethics in Practice
Enables students to intelligently confront difficult ethical questions in a variety of practical contexts For more than two decades, Ethics in Practice has equipped readers with all the tools needed to consider ethical issues and understand the historical basis of key developments in ethical theory. Bringing together original essays, new perspectives, and modern revisions of classic scholarship, this field-defining textbook integrates theory with practice. Rigorous yet accessible chapters, organized into thematic sections, empower students to think about punishment, economic injustice, discrimination, incarceration, genetic modification, gun control, torture, euthanasia, hate speech, abortio...
Professional Ethics
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Professional Integrity
Examines what it means to be a responsible professional, including the sorts of things thoughtful, conscientious people ought to perceive and care about.
Ethics in Human Communication
Johannesen has given readers a fourth edition rich with traditional & contemporary perspectives on ethics & its role in human interaction.
Ethics in Media Communications
[This book] offers a systematic approach to moral reasoning by combining ethical theory with the practice of ethics by media professionals. A moral-reasoning method is taught in the first three chapters, and in the rest of the book students are presented with hypothetical situations and asked to reach an ethical decision based on the principles they have learned.-Pref.
