ethical aspects

Presents a collection of essays that debate various topics surrounding parents' ability to select the sex of their child, including whether such a process is ethical and whether this process could lead to gender discrimination or gendercide in certain parts of the world.

Examines the benefits and disadvantages of cosmetic surgery. Includes real-life case studies, fact boxes, color photographs, a glossary, a timeline, and further information.

Discusses organ transplants, including their history, the politics of waiting for organs, ethical and economic considerations, solutions to the organ shortage, and the future of organ transplantation.

The tragic and haunting story of Dick Diver, a young psychiatrist whose career is thwarted and his genius numbed through marriage to the exquisite and wealthy Nicole Warren.

Discusses what is going on in human genetic research and the misinterpretations of those discoveries.

A discussion of energy conservation, reviewing the history of cultivation, and looking at how people can develop a more sustainable lifestyle through their eating habits by going organic, eating locally, using fair trade food, and green cooking.

Contains eighteen articles that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to advertising, addressing questions of whether advertising is harmful, whether it exploits children, if political advertising be reformed, and what the future looks like for the industry.

Discusses Minik Wallace, a young Eskimo boy brought to New York in 1897 along with his father, whose skeleton was put on display in the Museum of Natural History; Minik's years as a "specimen"; his displacement both in America and in Greenland upon his return there; Arctic exploration; and early anthropology.

Contains ten essays in which the authors present a wide range of viewpoints about the issue of euthanasia; and includes a bibliography and an annotated list of relevant organizations.

Offers a comprehensive history of the death penalty in the United States, discussing the changes which have occured over the last four centuries in the way capital punishment has been administered and experienced.