Books published by Georgetown University Press

Discussions and debates over the medical use of stem cells and cloning have always had a religious component. But there are many different religious voices. This anthology on how religious perspectives informs the difficult issues of stem cell research and human cloning.

The Indian Ocean region has rapidly emerged as the geographic nexus of economic and security issues with vital global consequences. Suitable for academics, professionals, and researchers with interests in international relations, Asian security, and maritime studies, this volume attempts to treat the Indian Ocean Region in a coherent fashion.

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Demonstrates how Catholic health care ethics can evolve similarly in response to the modern medical advances. This title analyzes the Catholic tradition of medical ethics. It suggests how a Catholic perspective on health care can utilize certain secular moral-philosophical positions.

Focuses on how Christians and Muslims connect their traditions to modernity, looking at understandings of history, changing patterns of authority, and approaches to freedom. This volume includes a selection of relevant texts from 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries.

The timeless human desire to be more beautiful, intelligent, healthy, athletic, or young has given rise in our time to technologies of human enhancement. The author has joined seasoned scholars and younger, emerging voices together to bring fresh insight into the technologies that are already reshaping the future of Christian life and hope.

Many Catholic priests, nuns, and brothers in the United States take a strong interest in US policies that affect their 'brothers and sisters' abroad. Based on years of fieldwork and on-the-ground interviews, this title details the transnational bonds that drive the political activities of these Catholic orders.

Argues that reconciliation needs honest talk to promote trust building and enable former enemies and adversaries to explore joint solutions to the cause of their conflicts. This book offers a critical assessment of the South African experiment in transitional justice as captured in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Can people ever really change? And do they ever become more ethical, and if so, how? This title focuses on the way ethical and religious commitments are conceived and nurtured through the methodical practices that Pierre Hadot has called 'spiritual exercises.'

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A primer that teaches the principles, strategy, and tradecraft of counter-intelligence (CI). It presents the nuts and bolts of the business of counter-intelligence and the characteristics that make a good CI officer. It offers detailed descriptions of tradecraft that reveal the real world of intelligence and espionage.

Looks at human rights and Islam as a religious issue rather than a political or legal one and draws on three revered Islamic scholars to offer a range of perspectives that challenge our assumptions about the role of religion in human rights.

John Cuthbert Ford, SJ was one of the leading American Catholic moralists of the 20th century. This is an analysis of his work and influence, one that not only reveals a traditionally Catholic method of moral analysis but also illuminates the conflicts behind and development of Catholic moral teaching during the volatile 1960s.

Acknowledges that it is impossible not to take into account the theological view of human life, but the challenge is how to present the religious perspective to non-religious people. This work shows that the two positions - the theological and the philosophical - aren't as far apart as they may seem.

Analyses the stages in which children learn Arabic as a first language. This book makes comparisons with aspects of language acquisition of other languages, primarily English, and explores implications for the theory of language acquisition.

Uses examples from history to demonstrate the genesis of political and religious "whirlwinds." This title explores contemporary case studies, such as conflicts between Mormons and Evangelicals in the United States, liberation theology in Latin America, Islam and the state in Uzbekistan, and radical Christian reconstructionism.

Serves as a comparative study of how and why IGOs integrate human rights standards into their development operations. This book focuses on the process of policy innovation in three UN-related IGOs: the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO).

By the Cold War's end, US military bases harbored nearly 20,000 toxic waste sites. Cleaning the approximately 27 million acres is projected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. This work delves into this world of defense environmental policy to reveal the struggle to build an environmentally sensitive culture within the post-Cold War military.

Georgetown University Press no longer publishes the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics (JSCE). To subscribe or find out more about the journal, please visit the JSCE website.

Offers families a way to cope with the problem: What to do when medical treatment sustains life but does not cure or resuscitate a critically ill loved one? This guide helps such families affirm that their choice to remove life support is morally acceptable, warranted, and made in the spirit of love and care for the patient.

Explores public administration's ideas and issues and questions whether contemporary efforts to "reinvent government", promote privatization, and develops public management approaches that constitute a coherent political theory capable of meeting the challenges of governing in a democracy.

Based on analyses of public laws, presidential speeches, congressional testimony, political advertising, and personal interviews, this title draws on concepts of federalism and agenda-setting to offer a view of the growing federal role in education policy. It also provides insights about the nature of federalism in the United States.

Charles E Curran has distinguished himself as the well-known and the controversial Catholic moral theologian in the United States. This title tells the story of Curran, a Catholic priest and theologian who, despite being stripped of his right to teach as a Catholic theologian by the Vatican, remains committed to the Catholic Church.

Provides contributions from a range of disciplines that mine the intersection of the secular and the religious, the medical and the moral, to unearth the ethical and clinical implications. This title includes an examination of how a theological anthropology can help us better understand health care, social policy, and science.

Integrates the study of politics and public policy across a spectrum of regulatory and social welfare policies in the United States and several nations of Western Europe. This title distills the prominent issues, politics, and roles played by governmental institutions into an understanding of the policymaking in and among transatlantic nations.

Once rarely discussed in medical circles, the relationship between spirituality and health has become an important topic in health care. This title draws from philosophical and theological sources to illuminate how the art of healing is integrally tied to a sense of the divine and our ultimate interconnectedness.

Offers an interpretive way of understanding organizations and policy by analyzing how they convey meaning through symbolic language, objects, and act. This title argues that policy and organizational actions are often as expressive of group or national identity as they are instrumentally oriented.

A provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.

By analyzing seven concrete models, this title examines each in regard to its logical structure, list of cases, derivational system, and use of covert case roles.

A collection of ten carefully selected cases from post-World War II British intelligence history that include: the Malayan Emergency, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Northern Ireland, and the lead up to the Iraq War.