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  • The Material Gene

    Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project

    af Kelly E. Happe ...
    Serier Bog 9 - Biopolitics
    Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book AwardFinalist for the 2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division Book of the Year AwardIn 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a “draft” of the human genome, the sequence information of nearly all 3 billion base pairs of DNA. Since then, interest in the hereditary basis of ... Læs mere

    237,79 kr.

  • Biocitizenship

    The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power

    Redigeret af Kelly E. Happe, Jenell Johnson, Marina Levina ...
    Serier Bog 19 - Biopolitics
    A groundbreaking exploration of biocitizenshipCitizenship has a long, complex relationship with the body. In recent years, developments in biomedicine and biotechnology, as well as a number of political initiatives, grassroots efforts, and public policies have given rise to new ways in which bodies shape the idea and practices of citizenship, or what has been called “biocitizenship.” This book, ... Læs mere

    221,94 kr.

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  • Is Breast Best?

    Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood

    af Joan B. Wolf ...
    Serier Bog 4 - Biopolitics
    Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many mothers so invested in the idea? In Is Breast Best? Joan B. Wolf challenges the widespread belief that breastfeeding is medically superior to bottle-feeding. Despite the fact that breastfeeding has become the ultimate expression of maternal dedication ... Læs mere

    229,87 kr.

  • The Alzheimer Conundrum

    Entanglements of Dementia and Aging

    af Margaret Lock ...
    Because of rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing and the projections are grim. Despite hundreds of millions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or ... Læs mere

    343,61 kr.

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    af Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock ...
    An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in ... Læs mere

    417,49 kr.

  • The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics

    Redigeret af Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Christine C. Grady, Robert A. Crouch, Franklin G. Miller, David D. Wendler, Reidar K. Lie ...
    Serier serie Oxford Textbook
    The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic reference on clinical research ethics. Under the editorship of experts from the U.S. National Institutes of Health of the United States, the book's 73 chapters offer a wide-ranging and systematic examination of all aspects of research with human beings. Considering the historical triumphs of research as well ... Læs mere

    1.141,33 kr.

  • Perspectives on Genetic Discrimination

    af Thomas Lemke ...
    Serier serie Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of exclusion, disadvantaging and stigmatization. The spectrum of this "genetic discrimination" ranges from disadvantages at work, via problems with insurance policies, to difficulties with adoption agencies.The empirical studies on the problem of genetic ... Læs mere

    470,73 kr.

  • Can Bacteria Cause Cancer?

    Alternative Medicine Confronts Big Science

    af David J. Hess ...
    Growing numbers of cancer patients are exploring diet, food supplements, herbs, and nontoxic immunotherapies like bacterial vaccines as a means of therapy. Yet most cancer research organizations refuse to even evaluate these alternatives. Can Bacteria Cause Cancer? argues convincingly that unless this neglected world of alternative therapies is properly scrutinized, the medical Vietnam of the ... Læs mere

    253,65 kr.

  • Ethics and Health Care

    An Introduction

    af John C. Moskop ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who should have access to assisted reproductive technologies? Which one of many seriously ill patients should be offered the next available transplant organ? When may a surrogate decision maker decide to withdraw life-prolonging measures from an unconscious patient? Questions like these feature prominently in the field of health care ethics and in the education of health care professionals. This ... Læs mere

    269,50 kr.

  • Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People

    af John Harris ...
    Decisive biotechnological interventions in the lottery of human life--to enhance our bodies and brains and perhaps irreversibly change our genetic makeup--have been widely rejected as unethical and undesirable and have often met with extreme hostility. But in Enhancing Evolution leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering stem-cell research designer babies ... Læs mere

    155,49 kr.

  • Modern Prometheus

    Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9

    af Jim Kozubek ...
    Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and effective methods for editing the human genome. This opens up startling new opportunities as well as significant ethical uncertainty. Tracing events across a fifty-year period, from the first gene splicing ... Læs mere

    214,01 kr.

  • Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate

    The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues

    Redigeret af Kristen Renwick Monroe, Ronald Miller, Jerome Tobis ...
    Few recent advances in science have generated as much excitement and controversy as human embryonic stem cells. The potential of these cells to replace diseased or damaged cells in virtually every tissue of the body heralds the advent of an extraordinary new field of medicine. Controversy arises, however, because current techniques required to harvest stem cells involve the destruction of the ... Læs mere

    277,03 kr.