Singer, Peter

Presents an introduction to practical ethics, focusing on the application of ethics to issues of personal and social relevance such as individual responsiblities towards the poor, animals, and the environment, as well as the topics of abortion, euthanasia, and moral behavior.

Contains 82 brief, philosophical essays examining current issues such as climate change, poverty, sports doping, and more.

Philosopher Peter Singer examines the life of his grandfather, Viennese Jewish scholar David Oppenheim, friend of psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler, discussing his marriage, his years as a soldier, his death in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, and the changes that shaped Europe in the twentieth century.

An update of the 1975 publication on "speciesism," the human disregard for nonhuman animals, with discussion of the factory farms and product-testing procedures of the early twenty-first century, and a look at possible alternatives.

Australian philosopher and bioethicist Peter Singer presents more than twenty-five of his own writings on the nature of ethics, animal rights, abortion, euthanasia, infanticide, environmental values, and meaningful living, as well as autobiographical essays and interviews.