Search results for ""Author Paul Lauritzen""
Georgetown University Press The Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in an Age of Terror
Can harsh interrogation techniques and torture ever be morally justified for a nation at war or under the threat of imminent attack? In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist strikes, the United States and other liberal democracies were forced to grapple once again with the issue of balancing national security concerns against the protection of individual civil and political rights. This question was particularly poignant when US forces took prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq who arguably had information about additional attacks. In this volume, ethicist Paul Lauritzen takes on ethical debates about counterterrorism techniques that are increasingly central to US foreign policy and discusses the ramifications for the future of interrogation. Lauritzen examines how doctors, lawyers, psychologists, military officers, and other professionals addressed the issue of the appropriate limits in interrogating detainees. In the case of each of these professions, a vigorous debate ensued about whether the interrogation policy developed by the Bush administration violated codes of ethics governing professional practice. These codes are critical, according to Lauritzen, because they provide resources for democracies and professionals seeking to balance concerns about safety with civil liberties, while also shaping the character of those within these professional guilds. This volume argues that some of the techniques used at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere were morally impermissible; nevertheless, the healthy debates that raged among professionals provide hope that we may safeguard human rights and the rule of law more effectively in the future.
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Georgetown University Press Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Fall/Winter 2005, volume 25, no. 2
"The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics" continues to be an essential resource for students, faculty, and scholars in search of the latest developments, thinking, and issues in the world of Christian and religious ethics.
£45.00
Georgetown University Press Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Spring/Summer 2005, volume 25, no. 1
"The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics" continues to be an essential resource for students, faculty, and scholars in search of the latest developments, thinking, and issues in the world of Christian and religious ethics.
£45.00
Georgetown University Press Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Spring/Summer 2003, volume 23, no. 1
Formerly known as "The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics", it will now bear the official title: "Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics". Instead of appearing as an annual, the Journal will appear twice a year - in the spring and in the fall. "The Journal" will continue to be an essential resource for students and faculty pursuing the latest developments in Christian and religious ethics, publishing refereed scholarly articles as well as a professional resources section on teaching and scholarship in ethics - a preeminent source for further research.
£45.00
Georgetown University Press Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Spring/Summer 2006, volume 26, no. 1
The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics continues to be an essential resource for students and faculty pursuing the latest developments in Christian and religious ethics, publishing refereed scholarly articles as well as a professional resource section on teaching and scholarship in ethics—a preeminent source for further research. The Journal also contains book reviews of the latest scholarship available.
£45.00
Georgetown University Press Medicine and the Ethics of Care
In these essays, a diverse group of ethicists draw insights from both religious and feminist scholarship in order to propose creative new approaches to the ethics of medical care. While traditional ethics emphasizes rules, justice, and fairness, the contributors to this volume embrace an "ethics of care", which regards emotional engagement in the lives of others as basic to discerning what we ought to do on their behalf. The essays reflect on the three related themes: community, narrative, and emotion. They argue for the need to understand patients and caregivers alike as moral agents who are embedded in multiple communities, who seek to attain or promote healing partly through the medium of storytelling, and who do so by cultivating good emotional habits. A thought-provoking contribution to a field that has long been dominated by an ethics of principle, "Medicine and the Ethics of Care" will appeal to scholars and students who want to move beyond the constraints of that traditional approach.
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