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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Scales; Adam Potthast; Linda Oravecz |
ISBN: | 9781443820578 1443820571 |
OCLC Number: | 645671366 |
Description: | xvi, 432 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Informalist conceptions of marriage and some of their implications / Steven Weimer, Sangeeta Sangha -- Teaching "against marriage," or, "But, Professor, marriage isn't a contract!" / Kathryn Norlock -- Marriage, parenting, and sexual orientation / Mark Strasser -- A liberal conception of civil marriage / Laura Osinski -- The ethics of polyamorous marriage / Hallie Liberto -- "Hooking up" : moral obligations and the meaning of sex / Stephen Scales -- Making parents : conventions, intentions, and biological connections / Yvette Pearson -- The foundations of licensing parents / Michael McFall -- Intergenerational justice and care in parenting / Stephen Scales -- Ho, ho, hoax : Santa Claus and parental deception / Ernani Magalhaes -- Moral children / Wade Robison -- Filial responsibility for aging parents / Charles Zola -- A reflection on Confucian ethics of the family? / Suk Choi -- From "Supernanny" to "The baby borrowers" : reality television as family teacher / Kristie Bunton -- Virtue ethics as the basis for family interaction / James J. Ponzetti Jr. -- An examination of one strategy for reconciling familial love and impartial morality / Eric Silverman -- Emotional intelligence and familial relationships / Diane Williamson -- A value of family : the moral significance of involuntary affiliations / Michael Taber -- Are there forms of rationality unique to a family that can justify the concept of "family values"? / Jeff Buechner -- Choice's challenge : feminist ethics and reproductive autonomy / Elizabeth Meade -- Superkid or Frankenchild : ethical issues in chemically enhancing the next generation / Steven Weiss -- Organ donation impasse and family rights / Robert Muhlnickel -- Conflicting ethical duties? : the dilemma of the best interests attorney / Paul Newhouse -- Ethical dilemmas and a decision-making process for child welfare practice / Karen Rice. |
Responsibility: | edited by Stephen Scales, Adam Potthast and Linda Oravecz. |
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"The Ethics of the Family is not just about ethics. And it is not just about family. It presents a cross-disciplinary and up-to-date scholarly approach to numerous social and philosophical controversies that involve different traditions, contrasting frameworks of justice, and current medical and technological developments. This could easily be used for several philosophy courses, including Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy and Human Nature. In addition, it would fit well into any ethics course in a Family Studies Department. Students will be surprised to find elements of their own lives in many of these chapters." -Dr. Alex Hooke, Stevenson University "In 'Ethics of the Family', Scales, Poitthast, and Oravecz offer theology professors a volume of philosophical essays that has real potential to extend family ethics in important new ways.', Julie H. Rubio in INTAMS review 18, 2012, pp 113-114, p.133. "This comprehensive foray into the ethical issues inherent in family life marks an exciting frontier for ethical inquiry. The papers take us from artificial reproductive technologies to Confucian filial piety, from the ethics of same-sex marriage to claims of intergenerational justice between children and parents. This is fertile ground for students of ethics to explore and this volume is an excellent guidebook for the journey." -Dr. Wolfgang W. Fuchs, Towson University Read more...

