Beschreibung:
What makes a policy work? What should policies attempt to do, and what should they ought to do? These questions are at the heart of both policy-making and ethics. Philosophy, Ethics and Public Policy: An Introduction is designed for those coming to the subject of ethics and public policy for the first time. A central feature of the book is that Andrew I. Cohen uses contemporary examples and controversies, mainly drawn from policy in a North American context, to illustrate important flash points in ethics and public policy:
Introduction 1. Sweatshops 2. Pharmaceuticals and the developing world 3. Immigration 4. Same-sex marriage 5. Women and the family 6. Education and intelligent design 7. Torture 8. Reparations and restorative Justice 9. Markets in human body parts 10. Factory farming of animals 11. Conclusion. Index