Contemporary debates in applied ethics / edited by Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ABORTION -- The wrong of abortion / Patrick Lee, Robert P. George -- The moral permissibility of abortion / Margaret Olivia Little -- AFFIRMATIVE ACTION -- A defense of affirmative action / Albert Mosley -- Preferential policies have become toxic / Celia Wolf-Devine -- ANIMALS -- Empty cages: animals rights and vivisection / Tom Regan -- Animals and their medical use / R.G. Frey -- CAPITAL PUNISHMENT -- A defense of the death penalty / Louis P. Pojman -- Why we should put the death penalty to rest / Stephen Nathanson -- CLONING -- Why I oppose human cloning / Jeremy Rifkin -- The poverty of objections to human reproductive cloning / John Harris -- EUTHANASIA -- In defense of voluntary active euthanasia and assisted suicide / Michael Tooley -- A case against euthanasia / Daniel Callahan -- IMMIGRATION -- Immigration: the case for limits / David Miller -- The case for open immigration / Chandran Kukathas -- PORNOGRAPHY -- The right to get turned on: pornography, autonomy, equality / Andrew Altman -- "The price we pay"? Pornography and harm / Susan J. Brison -- PRIVACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- The limits of privacy / Amitai Etzioni -- The case for privacy / David D. Friedman -- VALUES IN NATURE -- The instrinsic value of nature in public policy: the case of the endangered species act / J. Baird Callicott -- Values in nature: a pluralistic approach / Bryan G. Norton -- WORLD HUNGER -- Famine relief: the duties we have to others / Christopher Heath Wellman -- Famine relief and human virtue / Andrew I. Cohen.