Books in the Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics series

"The Handbook of Global Ethics" brings together leading international scholars to present concise and authoritative overviews of the most significant issues and ideas in global ethics. The "Handbook" provides a benchmark for the study of global ethics to date, as well as outlining future developments.

The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics will prove an invaluable reference for policy-makers and for students and scholars in philosophy, international relations, political science, environmental and development studies and human rights law.

This interdisciplinary handbook covers everything from animal cognition to the state of current fisheries, from genetic modification to intersection animal activism. It is a rich resource on the moral issues of human interactions with animals.

This Handbook offers an informed view of how the brain sciences are being used to approach and understand traditional philosophical questions in ethics, and how those questions are being revisited beyond the clinical and research domains.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health is a field-defining and sustained reflection on the various ethical, political, methodological and conceptual aspects of global public health.

Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook covers the following central topics: the nature and normative importance of consent; paternalism; exploitation and coercion; privacy; sexual consent; consent and criminal law; informed consent; organ donation; clinical research; consent theory of political obligati

The handbook covers the following questions: how should paternalism be defined or characterized? How is paternalism related to such moral notions as rights, well-being, and autonomy? When is paternalism morally objectionable? What are the legitimate limits of government benevolence? To what extent should medical practice be paternalistic?