Newsletters and Monographs

Newsletters | Monographs

Newsletters

• The Poynter Center Newsletter carries news and general information on the Center; it is published twice a year and is free. To be added to our mailing list, send your postal address to Glenda Murray. Issues since 1993 are available via the World Wide Web.
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• Ethically Speaking is the newsletter of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. It is published twice a year and is free with membership.

Monographs

The Poynter Center monograph series features inquiry into topics in ethics. Copies are available for $3.00. Most of our publications are now available in PDF format. Click on the titles in red. (To read the PDF files, you will need Adobe's free Acrobat Reader.)

Our most recent publication is by an IU faculty who participated in the 2004-05 Poynter Center Interdisciplinary Fellows Program, "The Ethics and Politics of Childhood."

• Orenstein, Aviva "The Ethics of Child Custody Evaluation: Advocacy, Respect for Parents, and the Right to an Open Future" (December 2006)

Other titles from 2000-the present are:

• Bangert, Byron, "Moral Issues and Motivations in Medical Philanthropy" (November 2005)
• Couser, G. Thomas, "The Cases of Oliver Sacks: The Ethics of Neuroanthropology" (December 2001)
• DeGeorge, Richard T., "Ethics, Business and the Internet" (May 2002)
• Dworkin, Roger B., et al., "Alternatives to Physician-Assisted Suicide" (October 2000)
• Estlund, David, "Deliberation Down and Dirty: Must Political Expression Be Civil?" (January 2005)
• Ivie, Robert L., "Democratic Dissent and the Trick of Rhetorical Critique " (September 2005)
• Matthews, Gareth B. "A Philosophy of Childhood" (January 2006)
• Shelton, Charles "Gratitude, Moral Emotions and the Moral Life" (October 2002)
• Smith, David H. "Ethics and the Teaching Responsibilities of Faculty" (June 2003)
• Williams, David Clair, "Federalism and Dissent" (September 2005)

Publications from 1990-1999 are:

• Beresford, H. Richard, "Ethics in Neuroscience: Mind Over Matter?" (July 1996)
• Frankel, Mark S., "Science as a Socially Responsible Community" (November 1994)
• Fullinwider, Robert K., "Teaching Ethics in the University" (March 1991)
• Gedicks, Frederick Mark, "'No Man's Land': The Place of Latter-day Saints in the Culture Wars" (February 1999)
• Lauritzen, Paul, "'It Hain't the Money but the Principle o' the Thing' -- Some Problems for Surrogate Motherhood" (October 1991)
• Macedo, Stephen, "Diversity and Distrust: Moral Plurality, Civic Education, and American Liberalism" (October 1997)
• McCormick, S.J., Richard A., "Hidden Persuaders: Value Variables in Bioethics" (June 1993)
• Miller, William Lee, "An American Defense of Politics, of Government and Maybe Even of Congress" (September 1993)
• Pimple, Kenneth D., Judith A. Granbois and David H. Smith, "The Social Face of Death: Confronting Mortality in Paoli, Indiana" (January 1998)
• Smith, Bardwell, "Horses Haul Manure East and West: The Politics of Transformation" (July 1992)
• Smith, David H., and Richard B. Miller, "Religion, Morality and the Professions in America". Two essays: David Krueger, "Ethics and Values in Advertising: Professional Identities and Organizational Cultures" and David P. Schmidt, "Quilting Professional Identities in Business"(March 1998)
• Sullivan, William M., "Education As Care of the Self: Identity and Meaning in the Global Era" (July 1994)
• Thomas, Laurence M., "The Fragility of the Moral Self: Self-Love and Morality" (October 1997)