Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics
About the Book Series
Applied ethics is one of the largest and most diverse fields in philosophy and is closely related to many other disciplines across the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics are state-of-the-art surveys of important and emerging topics in applied ethics, providing accessible yet thorough assessments of key fields, themes, thinkers, and recent developments in research.
All chapters for each volume are specially commissioned, and written by leading scholars in the field. Carefully edited and organized, Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics provide indispensable reference tools for students and researchers seeking a comprehensive overview of new and exciting topics in applied ethics and related disciplines. They are also valuable teaching resources as accompaniments to textbooks, anthologies, and research-orientated publications.
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Media Ethics
1st Edition
Edited
By Carl Fox, Joe Saunders
June 27, 2025
The media informs, entertains, and connects us. It is woven into the fabric of politics. Its increasing immediacy has become an inescapable feature of almost everybody’s life. We are, at the same time, subject to the media and participants in it. The ethical questions it raises have never been more...
The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics
1st Edition
Edited
By Donald A. Brown, Kathryn Gwiazdon, Laura Westra
May 05, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics is a powerful reference source for the identification and exploration of the underlying ethical issues in climate change law and policy. Bridging theory with practice, it takes ethical engagement out of the classroom and into the halls of ...
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty
1st Edition
Edited
By Gottfried Schweiger, Clemens Sedmak
April 13, 2025
Winner of the 2024 Academics Stand Against Poverty Book of the Year Anthology Award The problem of poverty is global in scope and has devastating consequences for many essential aspects of life: health, education, political participation, autonomy, and psychological well-being. The Routledge ...
The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement
1st Edition
Edited
By Fabrice Jotterand, Marcello Ienca
April 13, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement provides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications. A landmark in the academic literature, the volume covers human enhancement in genetic engineering, ...
The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Immigration
1st Edition
Edited
By Sahar Akhtar
March 24, 2025
Immigration poses some of the major moral, economic, and political challenges of the twenty-first century. Questions of the state’s responsibilities toward immigrants, open borders, security, coping with the displacement of people caused by climate change and natural disasters, and deciding who has...
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health
1st Edition
Edited
By Sridhar Venkatapuram, Alex Broadbent
March 13, 2025
In comparison to medicine, the professional field of public health is far less familiar. What is public health, and perhaps as importantly, what should public health be or become? How do causal concepts shape the public health agenda? How do study designs either promote or demote the environmental ...
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics
1st Edition
Edited
By Wendy A. Rogers, Jackie Leach Scully, Stacy M. Carter, Vikki A. Entwistle, Catherine Mills
August 26, 2024
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics is an outstanding resource for anyone with an interest in feminist bioethics, with chapters covering topics from justice and power to the climate crisis. Comprising forty-two chapters by emerging and established scholars, the volume is divided into six ...
The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics
1st Edition
Edited
By Bob Fischer
January 21, 2023
There isn’t one conversation about animal ethics. Instead, there are several important ones that are scattered across many disciplines.This volume both surveys the field of animal ethics and draws professional philosophers, graduate students, and undergraduates more deeply into the discussions that...
The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Annabelle Lever, Andrei Poama
December 18, 2020
What does it mean to do public policy ethics today? How should philosophers engage with ethical issues in policy-making when policy decisions are circumscribed by political and pragmatic concerns? How do ethical issues in public policy differ between areas such as foreign policy, criminal justice, ...
The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Schaber, Andreas Müller
December 18, 2020
While the importance of consent has been discussed widely over the last few decades, interest in its study has received renewed attention in recent years, particularly regarding medical treatment, clinical research and sexual acts. The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent is an ...
The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination
1st Edition
Edited
By Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
December 18, 2020
While it has many connections to other topics in normative and applied ethics, discrimination is a central subject in philosophy in its own right. It plays a significant role in relation to many real-life complaints about unjust treatment or unjust inequalities, and it raises a number of questions ...
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Kalle Grill, Jason Hanna
December 18, 2020
While paternalism has been a long-standing philosophical issue, it has recently received renewed attention among scholars and the general public. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting ...