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Tables of Contents for Gaia Connections
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables and Figure
xi
Preface to the Second Edition
xiii
Acknowledgments
xv
Introduction
1
6
1 Environmental Ethics
7
17
A Context for Study and Action
The Global Background
International Efforts to Heal the Planet
Ecoethics
Case Studies in Ecoethics
2 Ecophilosophy
24
11
Shallow, Deep, and Deepest Ecology
Ecofeminism: Women, Men, and Nature
Alternative Approaches to Environmental Ethics
3 Theories of Justice
35
18
General Principles in Ethics
Theories of Justice in the Past
Modern Theories of Justice
Actors in the Modern Ethical Debate
4 World Order Imperatives
53
20
Global Poverty and Structural Adjustment
International Debt and Underdevelopment
The Poverty-Ecology Connection
Rights and Just Expectations
The Nature of Security in the Modern World
The Peace Equation: Economic Conversion Equals Job Insurance
New Politics and Paradigms for the Solar Age
5 The Moral Demand for the Biological Steady State
73
15
The Pros and Cons of the Sustainability Debate
The Two Faces of Scarcity
Biological Ethics and Thermodynamics
6 Economics As if Nature Mattered
88
15
Overlapping Environmental Disruptions
Contending Economic Approaches
Dilemmas of Political Economy; New Economic Orders
7 Bioethical Limits to Scientific Inquiry
103
15
The Militarization of Science
The Limits of Science
Science, Systems, and Nature
8 Genetic Engineering
118
23
The History and the Science of Recombinant DNA
Controlling Recombinant Research in the Laboratory
From the Laboratory to the Fields
Molecules and the Military
Patents Pending; Science for People or Science for Profit
9 Unnatural Connections: Dilemmas of Biotechnology
141
19
The Human Genome Project
Down on the Farm with the Genetic Engineers
The Confusion over Corn
Policy and Regulation
Two Centuries in Reproductive System Research
10 Genetic Counseling
160
20
Genetic Screening: The Identification of Genetic Disease
Molecular Genetics and Medicine
The Gene Hunt
Prenatal Screening Programs
Abortion Dilemmas in Genetic Diagnosis
Fertilization in Vitro
The Nature of Abnormality
11 Bioethics I: The Rights of People
180
13
Health Care and Medical Allocations
The U.S. Health Care System
Distributive Justice
Who Gets What?
12 Bioethics II: Staying in Control
193
15
Informed Consent throughout History
The Rights of Patients
The Right to Live or Die
13 The Selfish Gene Reconsidered
208
16
Sociobiology
Alternative Evolutionary Theories
Evolution and Ethics
Toward an Evolutionary Ethic
14 The Social Sources of Environmental Values
224
11
Person/Society Influences
Student Reflections on Values
15 Ecoethics and Modern War
235
16
Just War Theory Revisited
Selective Opposition to War
The Dilemma of Nuclear War
Just War Options Today
16 All God's Creatures
251
13
Moral Rights for Animals?
Animal Experimentation
Animals for Food
All Flesh Is Grass
17 Perspectives on Environmental Change
264
19
The Environmental Movement
Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Era Environmentalism
The Ideological Rifts
The Global Movement of the Greens
The Labor-Health-Environmental Connection
A Concluding Unscientific Postscript
"The Influence Coming into Play: The Seven of Pentacles" by Marge Piercy
283
2
Supplementary Reading List
285
10
Index
295
12
About the Author
307