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

Includes bibliographical references.

Consequentialism / Peter Vallentyne -- Deontology / David McNaughton and Piers Rawling -- Virtue theory / Rosalind Hursthouse -- Rule-Utilitarianism and euthanasia / Brad Hooker -- Justifying physician-assisted deaths / Tom L. Beauchamp -- Against the right to die / J. David Velleman -- Dying at the right time : reflections on (un)assisted suicide / John Hardwig -- A duty to care revisited / Felicia Cohn and Joanne Lynn -- 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 -- The moral permissibility of abortion / Margaret Olivia Little -- 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 -- 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 -- The wisdom of repugnance : why we should ban the cloning of humans / Leon R. Kass -- 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 -- Freedom of action / John Stuart Mill -- On improving people by political means / Lester H. Hunt -- Against the legalization of drugs / James Q. Wilson -- Why we should decriminalize drug use / Douglas Husak -- 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 -- "The price we pay?" pornography and harm / Susan J. Brison -- The right to get turned on : pornography, autonomy, equality / Andrew Altman -- Sticks and stones / John Arthur -- Speech codes and expressive harm / Andrew Altman -- Racism / Michele Moody-Adams -- Servility and self-respect / Thomas E. Hill Jr. --

Sexual harrassment / Anita M. Superson -- Date rape / Lois Pineau -- Men in groups : collective responsibility for rape / Larry May and Robert Strikwerda -- The case against affirmative action / Louis P. Pojman -- 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 -- Out of character : on the psychology of excuses in the criminal law / John M. Doris -- Does punishment work? / John Paul Wright, Francis T. Cullen, and Kevin M. Beaver -- In defense of the death penalty / Louis P. 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 loser? / Johnathan Wolff -- Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer -- Famine relief and the ideal moral code / John Arthur -- 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 -- A place for cost-benefit analysis / David Schmidtz -- Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments / Thomas E. Hill, Jr. -- Hume and nature / Alan Carter -- Just war doctrine and the military response to terrorism / Joseph Boyle -- Nipping evil in the bud : the questionable ethics of preventive force / Douglas P. Lackey -- The justifiability of humanitarian intervention / Charles R. Beitz -- Pacifism : reclaiming the moral presumption / William J. Hawk.