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Nurses and healthcare professionals are constantly faced with ethical and philosophical dilemmas when working with children in everyday practice. Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children and young people is a comprehensive text on the ethics and philosophy behind paediatric nursing, that reflects some of the contemporary issues encountered while working with children and young people. This important new book provides a philosophical and historical analysis of the subject, looking at a review of sociological and political theories concerning the nature of childhood, and providing a

We already entered the era of Unmanned Vehicles, drones, boats and more recently cars are going to be "driven" by software, sensors, cameras, radars and more are the senses of our vehicles. If the risk that a flying or floating drone can be hacked is concerning us as well as the temporary lack of specific legislation, what about the concerns related to ethical and moral aspects, not neglecting the legal ones, concerning autonomous road vehicles such as cars and buses ? Safety and security standards for such devices are not set actually, how will behave two cars, both from the same builder or not, in case of imminent collision? Of course, the cyber-driver is supposed to be perfect but the environment may introduce some bias, hence on the moral and ethical side how will the cyber-driver take decisions? As an additional concern, today even cars may be subject to cyber-attacks as it already happened to Jeep vehicles in the United States, if on one side the regular car service or re-call for update can be performed through the permanent car connection to the Internet, no more need to physically take the car back to the service (this might lead to unwanted outcomes), on the other side in case of cyber-attacks our car might behave in a unpredictable way. As a consequence, possibly before a mass diffusion of such vehicles, we must be aware about some aspects: the risk of cyber-attacks that may turn everyday commodities like cars into "weapons" and the "programmed" behaviour of cars in case of "risky" scenarios. Security standards and harmonised "behaviours" together with an appropriate legal framework will probably help.

Management by Ethics is a reformation study of the renowned paradigm, management by objectives, by Peter Drucker. This book focuses on how to manage companies by ethical principles with a morally developed workforce. Through the operational strategies of moral development learning focused on ethically caring reciprocities

The book explores the main moral, ethical and operational dilemmas of targeted killings from an Israeli perspective. Even though many countries contending with terrorism have adopted this tool (either overtly or covertly) within the arsenal used in implementing their counter-terrorism policies, it seems that Israel, as one of the world's leading practitioner of targeted killing in its counter-terrorism effort, constitutes the most appropriate case study for reviewing implications and dilemmas associated with this practice. Each chapter will present a different ethicalmoraloperational dilemma emanating from a deployment of a targeted killing. The analysis of Israeli considerations and solutions to these dilemmas is built around interviews with Israeli decision-makers, former senior security officials and other experts. The chapters also cover public opinion polls in order to highlight the views of the Israeli public vis-a-vis each dilemma. Finally, chapters will conclude with lessons learned and offer recommendations for a practical and moral solution. The final chapter then draws together universal conclusions and recommendations for the use of targeted killings. Boaz Ganor is Founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), and Ronald S. Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism at Reichman University in Israel. Liram Koblentz-Stenzler is a senior researcher and head of the Global Far-Right Extremism Desk at the International Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University, Israel.

List of figures and tables -- Contributors -- Introduction / Dale E. Miller -- Chapter 1. Modern climate change: a symptom of a single-species high-energy pulse / Hans-Peter Plag -- Chapter 2. Ethical challenges posed by climate change: an overview / Madison Powers -- Chapter 3. Procreation, carbon tax, and poverty: an act-consequentialist climate-change agenda / Ben Eggleston -- Chapter 4. The rule-consequentialist response to climate change / Dale E. Miller -- Chapter 5. Kant and climate change: a territorial rights approach / Alice Pinheiro Walla -- Chapter 6. Contractualism and climate change / Paul Clements -- Chapter 7. Contractarianism and climate change / Michael Moehler -- Chapter 8. Natural law theory and climate change / Colleen McCluskey -- Chapter 9. Virtue ethics and climate change / Sophie Grace Chappell -- Chapter 10. From caring to counter-consumption: feminist moral perspectives on consumerism and climate change / Regina Cochrane -- Chapter 11. Pragmatist ethics and climate change / Steven Fesmire -- Chapter 12. Phenomenology and the ethics of difference: Levinas, responsibility, and climate change / William Edelglass -- Index.