• Tom L Beauchamp

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An Introduction to Global Health and Global Health Ethics: A Brief History of Global Health By M. Palilonis Learning Objectives: 1. Identify population-level and individual-level health measures across the history of global health 2. Consider competing theories of justice in global health 3.

Ideal for students with little or no background in philosophy, Ethical Choices: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy with Cases, Second Edition, provides a concise, balanced, and highly accessible introduction to ethics. Featuring an especially lucid and engaging writing style, the text surveys a wide range of ethical theories and perspectives including consequentialist ethics, deontological ethics, natural and virtue ethics, the ethics of care, and ethics and religion.
Each chapter includes compelling case studies that are carefully matched with the theoretical material. Many of these cases address issues that students can relate directly to their own lives: the drinking age, student credit card debt, zero tolerance policies, grade inflation, and videogames. Other cases discuss current topics like living wills, obesity, human trafficking, torture 'lite,' universal health care, and just-war theory. The cases provide students with practice in addressing real-life moral choices, as well as opportunities to evaluate the usefulness and applicability of each ethical theory. Every case study concludes with a set of 'Thought Questions' to guide students as they reflect upon the issues raised by that case.

ISBN: 978-1-119-09929-1 March 2017 Wiley-Blackwell192 Pages

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Tom L Beauchamp

• Greatly expanded and improved, this successful text introduces students to the major ethical traditions, and provides a simple methodology for resolving ethical dilemmas
• Treats teleological and deontological approaches to ethics as the two most important traditions, but now includes chapters on virtue ethics and the ethics of care
• The very accessible writing style speaks directly to students’ own experience
• Draws examples from three types of real-life ethical scenarios submitted by students: academic dishonesty, partying, and personal relationships
• Provides a concise treatment of this notoriously complex subject, perfect for entry-level ethics and applied ethics courses

Table of contents

Preface ix

Introduction xi

1 Ethics: What It Is, Does, and Isn’t 1

2 An “Ethical Yardstick”? 15

3 Measuring Consequences 41

4 Evaluating Actions 75

5 Virtue Ethics and the Ethics of Care 97

6 Doing Right: Why Bother? 125

7 Case Studies 145

Index 165