• Introductory Materials
  • Preface
  • Introducton: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Issues
  • Self-Assessment
  • General Bibliography
• Part One. Matters of Life & Death
  • Chapter 01.  Designing Humans
    • *Katy Duke, “A Savior Baby”
    • *Eva Feder Kittay, “On the Ethics of Selective Abortion for Disability: Conversations with My Son”
    • An Introduction to the Ethical Issues
    • Gregory Stock and Francis Fukuyama, “The Clone Wars.”
    • *Michael Sandel, “What’s Wrong with Enhancement?”
  • Chapter 02.  Abortion & Contraception
    • Ruth Padawer, "The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy"
    • Abortion: An Introduction to the Ethical Issues
    • Jane English, “Abortion and the Concept of a Person.”
    • *Patrick Lee and Robert P. George, “The Wrong of Abortion”
    • Concluding Discussion Questions
    • For Further Reading
  • Chapter 03.  Euthanasia & End-of-Life
    • *Atul Gawande, “Getting Go”
    • *Susan M. Wolf, “Confronting Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: My Father’s Death”
    • End-of-Life Decisions: An Introduction to the Moral Issues
    • James Rachels, “Active and Passive Euthanasia.”
    • Concluding Discussion Questions
    • For Further Reading
  • Chapter 04.  Punishment & the Death Penalty
    • Helen Prejean, C.S.J., “Crime Victims on the Anvil of Pain.”
    • An Introduction to the Moral Issues
    • David Gelernter, “What Do Murderers Deserve? The Death Penalty in Civilized Societies.”
    • Jeffrey H. Reiman, “Against the Death Penalty.”
    • Concluding Discussion Questions
    • For Further Reading
  • Chapter 05.  War & Terrorism
    • *Nancy Sherman, “Soldiers’ Moral Wounds”
    • An Introduction to the Moral Issues
    • Michael Walzer, “The Argument about Humanitarian Intervention.”
    • *Stephen L. Carter, “Torture Can Be Wrong and Still Work”
    • Alan M. Dershowitz, “Is There a Tortuous Road to Justice?”
    • Martin Cook, “Ethical Issues in Counterterrorism Warfare”
    • Concluding Discussion Questions
    • For Further Reading
• Part Two. Matters of Diversity & Equality
  • Chapter 06.  Race
    • Gregory Velazco y Trianosky, “Beyond Mestizaje: The Future of Race in America.”
    • An Introduction to the Moral Issues
    • Howard McGary, “Achieving Democratic Equality: Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Reparations.”
    • David A. Reidy, “Hate Crimes Laws: Progressive Politics or Balkanization?”
    • Concluding Discussion Questions
    • For Further Reading
  • Chapter 07.  Gender
    • An Introduction to the Ethical Issues
    • *Kathy Miriam, “Stopping the Traffic in Women”
    • David Benatar, “The Second Sexism”
    • Susan Moller Okin, “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?”
  • Chapter 08.  Sexual Orientation
    • *Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Remarks in Recognition of International Human Rights Day.”
    • AnIntroduction to the Ethical Issues
    • *Martha Nussbaum, “A Right to Marry? Same—sex Marriage and Constitutional Law."
    • James Q. Wilson, “Against Homosexual Marriage.”
    • Concluding Discussion Questions
    • For Further Reading
• Part Three. Expanding the Circle of Morality
  • Chaptyer 09.  Living with Scarcity: World Hunger &Poverty
    • Garrett Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor.”
    • *Thomas Pögge, “The Moral Demands of Global Justice”
    • Michael Walzer, “Achieving Global and Local Justice”
    • Concluding Discussion Questions
    • For Further Reading
  • Chapter 10.  Living with Animals
    • *Jonathan Foer, “Eating Animals”
    • Peter Singer, “Down on the Factory Farm.”
    • An Introduction to the Moral Issues
    • Tom Regan, “The Case for Animal Rights.”
    • Carl Cohen, “The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research.”
  • Chapter 11.  Living in the Natural World
    • *Edward O. Wilson, “Apocalypse Now. A Scientist’s Plea for Christian Environmentalism.”
    • An Introduction to the Ethical Issues
    • Holmes Rolston III, “Challenges in Environmental Ethics.”
    • Peter S. Wenz, “Just Garbage.”
    • Ramachandra Guha, “Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique.”
    • Concluding Discussion Questions
    • For Further Reading
  • Chapter 12.  Living in Cyberspace
    • Joseph Menn, “Hackers Live by Own Code.”
    • An Introduction to the Moral Issues
    • *Luciano Floridi, “The Ethical Evaluation of WikiLeaks”
    • James M. Moor, “Should We Let Computers Get Under Our Skins?”
    • Frances S. Grodzinsky and Herman T. Tavani, “Ethical Reflections on Cyberstalking.”
    • Richard A. Spinello, “Ethical Reflections on the Problem of Spam.”
• Concluding Materials
  • Concluding Ethical Self-Assessment
• *New to Fourth Edition