{"product_id":"ethics-in-action-isbn-9781405170987","title":"Ethics In Action","description":"Through the analysis of forty ethical dilemmas drawn from real-life situations, \u003ci\u003eEthics in Action\u003c\/i\u003e guides the reader through a process of moral deliberation that leads to the resolution of a variety of moral dilemmas.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFosters critical thinking by evaluating the reasons people give to support their choices and actions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChallenges the paradigm of moral relativism that often impedes efforts to resolve moral dilemmas\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncorporates international perspectives often lacking in texts published for a U.S. audience\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  About the Authors. \u003cp\u003eForeword by Robert F. Ladenson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Peggy Connolly.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Ethical Reasoning:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. A Brief Overview of Basic Ethical Theory: David R. Keller (Utah Valley University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. A Framework for Moral Reasoning: Eric H. Gampel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Cases and Commentaries:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Eye of the Beholder: Ethical Issues in the Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase One: Monumental Controversies – The FDR Memorial.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Two: Fire Sale – Destroying Privately Owned Works of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Three: What Price Immortality? – The Body Worlds Exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Four: Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers? – Returning Antiquities to Their Countries of Origin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Five: Faux Paws – The Genetically Engineered Bunny.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Green Achers: Ethical Issues and the Environment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Six: All Used Up and Nowhere to Glow – Goshute Nuclear Waste Siting and Native American Sovereignty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Seven: Not in My Back Yard – Environmental Injustice and “Cancer Alley”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Eight: The Boiled Frog – Global Warming, U.S. Interests, and Vulnerable Nations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Nine: A Gorilla on the Grill is Worth Two in the Bush – Wild Meat, Malnutrition, and Biological Conservation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Ten: Future Farmers – The Ecology, Economics, and Ethics of Genetically Modified Rice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Eleven: Till Rivers Run Dry – Mexican-American Water Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Plays Well With Others? Ethical Issues in Intra-social Conflicts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Twelve: Am I My Brother’s Keeper? – What Are Friends For?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Thirteen: Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Healthcare Professionals – Recruiting Nurses from Developing Nations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Fourteen: Deadly Secrets – Releasing Confidential Medical Records to Law Enforcement Officers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Fifteen: Perish the Thought! – Academic Affairs and “Community Values”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Sixteen: The Sound and the Fury – Noises and Neighbors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Seventeen: Shoot to Thrill – Gun Schools in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Healthy, Wealthy and Whys: Ethical Issues in Health Care\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Eighteen: Whose Life Is It Anyway? – Collisions Between Personal Conscience and Professional Obligations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Nineteen: Congratulations! Did You Have a Boy or a Girl? – Surgical Interventions on Infants with Disorders of Sex Development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Twenty: The Heart of the Matter – Who Decides When the Patient is Dead?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Twenty-one: Lip Service – Cosmetic Use of Cadaver Tissue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Twenty-two: Drug of Choice – Patients’ Access to Experimental Drugs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Twenty-three: A Fevered Hand on a Cooling Brow – The Nurse’s Role in Aid-in-dying.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Business as Usual: Ethical Issues in the Marketplace.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Twenty-four: Sale of a Lifetime – Ovum “Donation”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Twenty-five: Only God Can Make a Tree – Patenting Indigenous Plants.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Twenty-six: Body Shop – International Trafficking in Human Organs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Twenty-seven: Straits of Strife – Japanese Whaling, Cultural Relativism, and International Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Twenty-eight: Big Pharma Wants You – Direct-to-consumer Advertising.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Twenty-nine: This Gun’s For Hire – ExxonMobil and the Indonesian Military.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Freedom From or Freedom To? Ethical Issues in Government.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Thirty: Battle Scars – Suing the Government for Medical Malpractice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Thirty-one: Does the Past Mean Never Having to Say We’re Sorry? – Reparations and Apologies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Thirty-two: Words Fail – Institutional Responses to Creative Violence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Thirty-three: The Idealism of Youth – Civil Disobedience and the BYU Honor Code.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Thirty-four: Britannia Waives the Rules – Collecting DNA on Arrestees.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Thirty-five: Land of the Free – The Gun Ban at the University of Utah.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. School Days, School Daze: Ethical Issues in Education.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Thirty-six: Sheepskin or Fleece? – Plagiarism in University Classrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Thirty-seven: Fire Up the Coffee Pot! Break Out the Ritalin! – Performance-enhancing Drugs in Academia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Thirty-eight: When an A is Not an A – Grade Inflation in Universities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Thirty-nine: Readin’, Writin’, and Rx-in’ – School Kids with Medical Needs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Forty: Promises, Promises – Selling Genetic Material for Institutional Gain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. History of the Ethics Bowl.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreparation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB) Rules.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegional Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Rules.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNational Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Championship Rules (2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \"This book's analysis of 40 ethical dilemmas drawn from real-life situations provides a guide to readers through the process of moral decision-making.\" (\u003ci\u003eEthical Corporation Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2009)  \u003cb\u003ePeggy Connolly\u003c\/b\u003e, EdD, chair, Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl national case-writing committee\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid R. Keller\u003c\/b\u003e, PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics, Utah Valley University\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin G. Leever\u003c\/b\u003e, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBecky Cox-White\u003c\/b\u003e, PhD, Professor, Department of Philosophy, and Fellow, Center for Applied and Professional Ethics, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA\u003c\/p\u003e  It's difficult to always know the \"right\" thing to do. Contemporary life is fraught with situations where the choices that confront us are morally problematic. \u003ci\u003eEthics in Action\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the prevalence of moral quandaries we face on an almost daily basis, and provides us with the moral problem-solving skills to meet them. \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003eUtilizing forty \"real-life\" ethical dilemmas drawn from personal and professional experiences and media accounts, \u003ci\u003eEthics in Action\u003c\/i\u003e subjects each case study to rigorous analyses using a systematic method for resolving moral dilemmas. Moral dilemmas are considered from multiple perspectives: one commentator arguing for a particular solution, a second commentator arguing against that solution, and a third commentator demonstrating why neither solution is complete in and of itself and demonstrating, through an expanded moral analysis, the morally preferable solution. As a result, the reader is shown the value of discourse in moral problem solving while being guided through a process of moral deliberation that leads to ethically defensible resolutions of moral dilemmas across a wide range of disciplines.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthics in Action\u003c\/i\u003e provides readers with valuable critical-thinking skills to meet the challenges of ethical dilemmas and moral ambiguity they face every day—while inspiring us all to keep our moral compasses pointing in the right direction.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"For those tired of the usual text in moral or social problems, Ethics in Action offers a welcome vacation. While most of the topics are familiar (the environment, social relations, biomedical ethics, and so on), most of the cases in those sections are not. All the cases are interesting in themselves. No trolley problems here!\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e–Michael Davis, Illinois Institute of Technology\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"This well-written book admirably shows how case-driven moral reasoning is a complex, sophisticated process, one grounded in a rational framework. Readers will learn much from the authors' approach and be deeply challenged by the cases.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003ci\u003eChristopher Meyers, Kegley Institute of Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book provides an invaluable resource for classroom discussion. It is rich with examples that will draw students into a deeper exploration of theory. A must-have for anyone serious about teaching ethics.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003ci\u003eAine Donovan, Dartmouth College\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989167784165,"sku":"NP9781405170987","price":112.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405170987.jpg?v=1761783065","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ethics-in-action-isbn-9781405170987","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}