Ethics in practice : an anthology / edited by Hugh LaFollette.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rule-utilitarianism and euthanasia / Brad Hooker -- Against the right to die / J. David Velleman -- Justifying physician-assisted deaths / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Dying at the right time : reflections on (un)assisted suicide / John Hardwig -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- On the moral and legal status of abortion / Mary Anne Warren -- An argument that abortion is wrong / Don Marquis -- Virtue theory and abortion / Rosalind Hursthouse -- All animals are equal / Peter Singer -- The moral community / Michael Allen Fox -- Moral standing, the value of lives, and speciesism / R.G. Frey -- The case for animal rights / Tom Regan -- What do grown children owe their parents? / Jane English -- Emotional exploitation / Sandra Lee Bartky -- Morality, parents, and children / James Rachels -- Artificial means of reproduction and our understanding of the family / Ruth Macklin -- Is women's labor a commodity? / Elizabeth S. Anderson -- "Goodbye, Dolly?" : the ethics of human cloning / John Harris -- What's wrong with rape? / Pamela Foa -- Morality and human sexuality / Vincent C. Punzo -- Plain sex / Alan H. Goldman -- Why homosexuality is abnormal / Michael Levin -- Homosexuality and the moral relevance of experience / John Corvino --

Servility and self-respect / Thomas E. Hill, Jr. -- On improving people by political means / Lester H. Hunt -- Generosity / James D. Wallace -- Humility / Judith Andre -- Freedom of action / John Stuart Mill -- Against the legalization of drugs / James Q. Wilson -- The war on drugs is lost / William F. Buckley Jr. -- Permissible paternalism : saving smokers from themselves / Robert E. Goodin -- The liberal basis of the right to bear arms / Todd C. Hughes and Lester H. Hunt -- Gun control / Hugh LaFollette -- Freedom of thought and discussion / John Stuart Mill -- Sex, lies and pornography / Ann Garry -- MacKinnon's words / Ronald Dworkin -- Sticks and stones / John Arthur -- Speech codes and expressive harm / Andrew Altman -- Racisms / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Sexual harassment / Anita M. Superson -- Date rape / Lois Pineau -- Men in groups : collective responsibility for rape / Larry May and Robert Strikwerda - Affirmative action / Michael Levin -- The rights of Allan Bakke / Ronald Dworkin --

Affirmative action as equalizing opportunity : challenging the myth of "preferential treatment" / Luke Charles Harris and Uma Narayan -- Punishment and desert / James Rachels -- Repentance and criminal punishment / Jeffrie G. Murphy -- Making hard time even harder / Lynn Pasquerella -- In defense of the death penalty / Louis Pojman -- Against the death penalty / Jeffrey Reiman -- A theory of justice / John Rawls -- The entitlement theory of justice / Robert Nozick -- Displacing the distributive paradigm / Iris Marion Young -- Economic competition : should we care about the losers? / Jonathan Wolff -- Free movement : if people were money / Robert E. Goodin -- Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer -- Famine relief and the ideal moral code / John Arthur -- Hunger, capacity, and development / David A. Crocker -- Eradicating systemic poverty : brief for a global resources dividend / Thomas W. Pogge -- Feeding people versus saving nature / Holmes Rolston III -- The land ethic / Aldo Leopold -- Challenges of ecofeminism : from "should" to "can" / Gail Stenstad -- Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments / Thomas E. Hill Jr. -- Hume and nature / Alan Carter.