101 Ethical Dilemmas

From overcrowded lifeboats to the censor's pen, Martin Cohen's stimulating and amusing dilemmas will have you scratching your head and laughing out loud in equal measure.

Will meat eaters get into heaven? Do trees have rights? Is it ever right to 'design' a baby? From overcrowded lifeboats to the censor's pen, Martin Cohen's stimulating and amusing dilemmas will have you scratching your head and laughing out loud in equal measure. Whatever your background, there is a dilemma for you. There are the DIY babies and the breeding experiements from medicine; an ethically dubious chemical factory Business ethics; the 'School of Terror' from world affairs and the 'Twinkies courtroom drama' from law. In this book, you'll find dilemmas in the shape of beautiful and ugly sisters, frog kings, ancient volcanic islands and exotic villages. This book won't help you become a good person, but at least you will have thought about it...

Introduction How to use this book The Dilemmas: Four dodgy dilemmas to get started with ... And three personal Dilemmas
which maybe a business ethics course could help with ... The descent begins ... Some pretty ancient dilemmas ... Anti-social dilemmas ... Medical ethics ... The censor's dilemma ... Business week: Half a dozen dilemmas from business ethics
(with the emphasis on business) And another dilemmas for business ethics (with the emphasis on ethics) A puntad of stories: Searching for divine justice Some monkey business Two little dilemmas Searching for the good life Watching brief Role playing academic ethics games designed to make the college virtuous Animals too: The vegetarian's dilemma Ethically suspect fairy tales Stories of relatavia War ethics Environmental ethics Money matters Legal dilemmas: Rough justice Environmental ethics Some really rather implausible ethical dilemmas that could only happen in the movies, and what do they tell us about ethical decision making anyway? Nearly at the ends if not the means Discussions Glossary Notes and reading
guide Acknowledgements