Gay Ethics - Murphy, Timothy F

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Résumé :
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....

Biographie:
Timothy F. Murphy holds a doctorate in philosophy from Boston College and is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences. He teaches in the Medical Humanities Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. He is the co-editor of both Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis (Columbia University Press, 1993) and Justice and the Human Genome Project (University of California Press, 1994). He is also the author of Ethics in an Epidemic: AIDS, Morality, and Culture (forthcoming from the University of California Press) and is writing a book on the ethics of sexual reorientation therapy....

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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 Case Study in Closeting
• A Moral Justification for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Legislation
• Gay Rights and Affirmative Action
• 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
• Reference Notes Included