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9780198750673
This volume collects a wealth of articles covering a range of topics ofpractical concern in the field of ethics, including active and passiveeuthanasia, abortion, organ transplants, capital punishment, the consequences ofhuman actions, slavery, overpopulation, the separate spheres of men and women,animal rights, and game theory and the nuclear arms race. The contributors areThomas Nagel, David Hume, James Rachels, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Michael Tooley,John Harris, John Stuart Mill, Louis Pascal, Jonathan Glover, Derek Parfit, R.M.Hare, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Peter Singer, and Nicholas Measor.Singer, Peter is the author of 'Applied Ethics', published 1986 under ISBN 9780198750673 and ISBN 0198750676.
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