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BEST BOOKS IN ETHICS |
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BEST BOOKS IN ETHICS |
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In Best Books for Public Libraries: The 10,000 Top Fiction and Nonfiction Titles (1992), the editor, Steven Arozena, explains that the work "is designed to give librarians a current, single-volume guide to the top critically acclaimed books suitable for general readers (patrons who possess a lay person's knowledge of a wide variety of subjects). His selection of the best books on Ethics (Moral Philosophy) follows.
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In General
| Joseph Fletcher | Situation Ethics: The New Morality. 1966 |
| Hans Jonas | Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age. 1985 |
| Bernard Williams | Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. 1985 |
Systems and Doctrines
| Alfie Kohn | Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life. 1990 |
| James Rachels | Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism. 1990 |
Political Ethics
| Erik H. Erikson | Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolrnce. 1970 |
| Stuart Hampshire | Innocence and Experience. 1989 |
| A.G. Mojtabai | Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas. 1988 |
| Joseph S. Nye, Jr. | Nuclear Ethics. 1986 |
Economic and Professional Ethics
| Peter Baida | Poor Richard's Legacy: American Business Values from Benjamin Franklin to Donald Trump. 1990 |
| Jeff Lyon | Playing God in the Nursery. 1986 |
| Ruth Macklin | Mortal Choices: Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Medicine. 1988 |
| Dorothy Nelkin & Laurence Tancredi | Dangerous Dossiers: The Social Power of Biological Information. 1989 |
| Robert Proctor | Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. 1988 |
| David Suzuki & Peter Knudtson, eds. | Genethics: Th eClash Between the New Genetics and Human Values. 1989 |
| Sallie Tisdale | Sorcerer's Apprentice: Tales of a Modern Hospital. 1986 |
| Edward Yolen | Gene Business: Who Should Control Biotechnology? 1986 |
Ethics of Sex and Reproduction
| Andrea Bonnickson | In Vitro Fertilization: Building Policy from Laboratories to Legislatures. 1989 |
Other Ethical Norms
| Carol J. Adams | Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. 1990 |
| A. Alverez | Savage God: A Study of Suicide. 1990 |
| Michael Allen Fox | Case for Animal Experimentation: An Evolutionary and Ethical Perspective. 1985 |
| Linda Bird Francke | Ambivalence of Abortion. 1978 |
| Laura Fraser | Animal Rights Handbook: Everyday Ways to Save Animal Lives. 1990 |
| Andrew H. Malcolm | Someday. 1991 |
| Roderick Frazier Nash | Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. 1989 |
| Tom Regan | Case for Amimal Gights. 1983 |
| Holmes Rolston, III | Environmental Ethics: Duties and Values to the Natural World. 1987 |
| Robert Wennberg | Terminal Choices: Euthanasia, Suicide and the Right to Die. 1990 |
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