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  • In Vitro Fertilisation in the 1990s

    Towards a Medical, Social and Ethical Evaluation

    Edited by Elisabeth Hildt, Dietmar Mieth ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1998, this book is a collected volume of papers from the first conference of the European Network for Biomedical ethics. The main subject of this conference is the ethical assessment of IVF in view of its concrete application as an infertility treatment and the consideration of possible alternatives for use. Twenty years after the introduction and the establishment of this therapy a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Marcus Düwell, Jens Braarvig, Roger Brownsword, Dietmar Mieth ...
    This introduction to human dignity explores the history of the notion from antiquity to the nineteenth century, and the way in which dignity is conceptualised in non-Western contexts. Building on this, it addresses a range of systematic conceptualisations, considers the theoretical and legal conditions for human dignity as a useful notion and analyses a number of philosophical and conceptual ... Read more

    $163.99 USD

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  • Life's Dominion

    An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom

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  • Kingdom of Olives and Ash

    Writers Confront the Occupation

    by Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman ...
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  • The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity

    The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire

    by Taner Akçam ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity
    An unprecedented look at secret documents showing the deliberate nature of the Armenian genocideIntroducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting these ... Read more

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  • Why I March

    Images from The Women's March Around the World

    by Abrams Books ...
    An inspiring photographic account of the worldwide Women's March of 2017—one of the biggest peaceful protests in history.On January 21, 2017, five million people in eighty-two countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement around the many issues that were hotly debated during the 2016 U.S. ... Read more

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  • Child Soldiers in Africa

    by Alcinda Honwana ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent. In some of those situations, for a variety of reasons, including coercion, poverty, or the seductive nature of violence, children become killers before they are able to grasp the fundamentals of morality. It has been only in the past ten years that this component of warfare ... Read more

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  • The Death Penalty

    A Worldwide Perspective

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    Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights

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  • Ethnicity and Group Rights

    Nomos XXXIX

    Edited by Ian Shapiro, Will Kymlicka ...
    Series Book 12 - NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
    Within Western political philosophy, the rights of groups has often been neglected or addressed in only the narrowest fashion. Focusing solely on whether rights are exercised by individuals or groups misses what lies at the heart of ethnocultural conflict, leaving the crucial question unanswered: can the familiar system of common citizenship rights within liberal democracies sufficiently ... Read more

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