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A Very Short IntroductionIssues in medical ethics are rarely out of the media and it is an area of ethics that has particular interest for the general public as well as the medical practitioner. This short and accessible introduction provides an invaluable tool with which to think about the ethical values that lie at the heart of medicine. Tony...

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A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing LibertyWhat limits, if any, should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its own        citizens in the interests of national security? By reframing the relationship        between privacy and security One Nation Under Surveillance offers a framework to        defend freedom...

The first full philological edition in English of the Roman philosopher Seneca's        De Clementia. It includes the Latin text with apparatus criticus, a new English        translation, a substantial introduction, and a commentary on matters of textual and        literary criticism and issues of socio-political, historical, cultural,...

This second volume in the Feminist Philosophy series focuses on the topic of autonomy in the context of gender politics. Marilyn Freidman's project concentrates primarily on the notion of personal autonomy as the self-referential capacity to define the terms of one's own life. She develops a new account of autonomy that can bridge the gap between...