Applying Ethics: A Text with Readings, 10th Edition - Softcover

Van Camp, Julie C.; Olen, Jeffrey; Barry, Vincent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495807958 ISBN 13: 9780495807957

Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2010

Synopsis

Help your students discover the ethical implications and issues surrounding today's most compelling social dilemmas--from genetic engineering and cloning to terrorism and the use of torture--with APPLYING ETHICS: A TEXT WITH READINGS. Framed by the authors' helpful introductions and supported by a variety of readings and cases that reflect both sides of the topics being explored, this best-selling book offers a balanced introduction to ethics today.

About this title

About the Authors

Julie C. Van Camp is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, where she taught philosophy of law and applied ethics. Along with a Ph.D. in philosophy from Temple University, she holds a J.D. from Georgetown University. She has been admitted to the State Bar of California and the District of Columbia Bar. She is the author of two other Cengage Learning titles, including ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE COURTS and ETHICS (4LTR Press).

Jeffrey Olen is the author of PERSONS AND THEIR WORLD, ETHICS IN JOURNALISM, and MORAL FREEDOM, in addition to journal articles on a variety of topics. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Temple University, the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, and Regis University-Colorado Springs.

Vincent Barry is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Bakersfield College, having taught there for thirty-four years as well as being a highly successful philosophy textbook author.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0495807958
• ISBN 13: 9780495807957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576