Product Description: Peter Russell, a political scientist and an energetic participant in constitutional debate, is the focus of this collection of essays. Designed to reflect the manifold career of Russell, the work, based on the proceedings of a conference held in 1996, includes contributions on constitutional politics, security and intelligence, Aboriginal people, the courts, and law and society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Igniting a firestorm of controversy upon its publication in 1966, Joseph Fletcher's Situation Ethics was hailed by many as a much-needed reformation of morality--and as an invitation to anarchy by others. Proposing an ethic of loving concern, Fletcher suggests that certain acts--such as lying, premarital sex, adultery, or even murder--might be morally right, depending on the circumstances...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Why do citizens in pluralist democracies disagree collectively about the very values they agree on individually? This text highlights the inescapable conflicts of rights and values at the heart of democratic politics.

Product Description: This volume brings together the most important articles of the late Joseph F. Fletcher, summarizing his research on the relation of China to its neighbours; the history of nomad society, and the interconnections among the great empires of the early modern age.

Product Description: This informative book provides a vivid overview of this very influential man who--through his warmth, support, loyalty, and inspiration--changed the course of American ethics and pioneered the field of bioethics.

Views the ethical problems and issues that have resulted from recent medical advances in genetic control and calls for a reevaluation of contemporary moral stands

Product Description: Taking a critical look at some of the recent controls over human life, health, and death, Fletcher draws a vivid picture of contemporary biological needs and ethical responsibility. Genetic engineering, foetal research, abortion, suicide, human experimentation, infanticide, and euthanasia are some of the issues explored in it...read more

Dr. Fletcher describes the new Christian ethic based upon individual freedom and responsibility