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Book SynopsisEnables students to intelligently confront difficult ethical questions in a variety of practical contexts For more than two decades, Ethics in Practice has equipped readers with all the tools needed to consider ethical issues and understand the historical basis of key developments in ethical theory. Bringing together original essays, new perspectives, and modern revisions of classic scholarship, this field-defining textbook integrates theory with practice. Rigorous yet accessible chapters, organized into thematic sections, empower students to think about punishment, economic injustice, discrimination, incarceration, genetic modification, gun control, torture, euthanasia, hate speech, abortion, and many other topics. The sixth edition of Ethics in Practice is fully revised to reflect the latest empirical evidence and ethical perspectives. Expanded sections feature entirely new essays on punishment, sentencing, assassination, the environment, epistemic vices, pragmatic ethics, biomedical
