| Description |
1 online resource (381 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PART I. STARTING POINTS Introduction; Homosex/Ethics; PART II. OUTING AND THE CLOSET The Closet and the Ethics of Outing; Privacy and the Ethics of Outing; Outing, Truth-Telling, and the Shame of the Closet; Coming Out, Being Out, and Acts of Virtue; PART III. CIVIL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Gay Marriage: A Civil Right; The Military Ban and the ROTC: A Study in Closeting; A Moral Justification for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Legislation; Gay Rights and Affirmative Action |
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PART IV. THE MORAL MEANINGS OF SCIENCE Explaining Homosexuality: Philosophical Issues, and Who Cares Anyhow?The Relevance of Scientific Research About Sexual Orientation to Lesbian and Gay Rights; Fixation and Regression in the Psychoanalytic Theory of Homosexuality-A Critical Evaluation; Homophobia and the Moral Authority of Medicine; Index |
| Summary |
Gay Ethics is an anthology that addresses ethical questions involving key moral issues of today--sexual morality, outing, gay and lesbian marriages, military service, anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action policies, the moral significance of sexual orientation research, and the legacy of homophobia in health care. It focuses on these issues within the social context of the lives of gay men and lesbians and makes evident the ways in which ethics can and should be reclaimed to pursue the moral good for gay men and lesbians. Gay Ethics is a timely book that illustrates the inadequa |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136587467 |
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1136587462 |
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