New Essays in Applied Ethics Animal Rights, Personhood, and the Ethics of Killing

This collection of new essays aims to address some of the most perplexing moral issues arising from the moral status of animals and persons, as well as discussing the issue of death. Leading scholars, including Peter Singer, Gerald Dworkin, Tibor Machan and Jenny Teichman, investigate diverse topics such as animal rights and vegetarianism, personhood and abortion, euthanasia and terminal sedation, lethal injection and medical ethics, as well as extinction and its moral insignificance, these essays bring together vastly different perspectives. Written with little technical jargon and preceded by an introduction, they should interest not only professional philosophers, applied ethicists, lawyers and physicians, but also religious and non-religious laypeople alike. Book jacket.

HON LAM LI is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.

ANTHONY KWOK-WING YEUNG is Lecturer in Philosophy at the General Education Centre, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China.