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  • Exploitation

    by Alan Wertheimer ...
    What is the basis for arguing that a volunteer army exploits citizens who lack civilian career opportunities? How do we determine that a doctor who has sex with his patients is exploiting them? In this book, Alan Wertheimer seeks to identify when a transaction or relationship can be properly regarded as exploitative--and not oppressive, manipulative, or morally deficient in some other way--and ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Perspectives On The Holocaust

    Essays In Honor Of Raul Hilberg

    by James S Pacy, Alan Wertheimer ...
    This volume brings together original historical, literary, and philosophical analyses of the Holocaust by some of the world's leading scholars, including Yehuda Bauer, Christopher R. Browning, George Steiner, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Richard L. Rubenstein, Robert Wolfe, Eberhard Jackel, Peter Hayes, and John K. Roth. The essays cover topics as diverse a ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology

    Volume II

    Edited by Gregory A. Kimble, C. Alan Boneau, Michael Wertheimer ...
    Series series Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology Series
    A major aim of the books in this series is to promote psychology's appreciation of the neglected giants in its history. The chapters document the significance of these early contributions, many of them made more than a century ago.Most of the chapters are revisions of invited addresses delivered at psychological conventions. Several of the authors are students, colleagues, or offspring of their ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Majorities and Minorities

    Nomos XXXII

    Edited by John W. Chapman, Alan Wertheimer ...
    Series Book 25 - NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
    In this thirty-second annual volume in the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy's NOMOS series, entitled Majorities and Minorities, thirteen distinguished contributors consider a diverse selection of topics. Included are essays on legitimacy of the majority, the utilitarian view of majoritarianism, majorities and elections, pluralism and equality, democratic theory, and American ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Pharmaceutical Public Policy

    by Thomas R. Fulda, Alan Lyles, Albert I Wertheimer ...
    As the most common health-care intervention, prescription drug use shares the most important characteristics of the health-care system in the United States. When everything works well, it makes possible breathtakingly successful applications of science to the prevention and cure of human suffering. But everything doesn‘t always work well. Pharmaceu ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Medical Experimentation

    Personal Integrity and Social Policy: New Edition

    by Charles Fried ...
    First published in 1974, Charles Fried's Medical Experimentation is a classic statement of the moral relationship between doctor and patient, as expressed within the concept of personal care. This concept is then tested in the context of medical experimentation and, more specifically, the randomized controlled trial (RCT). Regularly referred to as a point of departure for ethical and legal ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Eichmann in Jerusalem

    A Report on the Banality of Evil

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of TotalitarianismSparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Idea of Human Rights

    by Charles R. Beitz ...
    The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination of the central idea of that language, the idea of a human right. In contrast to more conventional philosophical studies, the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Truth About the Drug Companies

    How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It

    by Marcia Angell ...
    During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Willing Executioners

    Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ...
    This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Why Deliberative Democracy?

    by Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson ...
    The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why Deliberative Democracy?, they move the debate forward beyond their influential book, Democracy and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Sickening

    How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It

    by John Abramson ...
    The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge—misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health.The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries—yet the amount of time that Americans live in good health ranks a lowly 68th in the world. At the heart of ... Read more

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