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Author : Ruth Hubbard
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0807004316
How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers
Author : Robert G. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Genetic engineering
ISBN : 0473066157
Author : Craig Holdrege
Publisher : Lindisfarne Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015047507747
A provocative work that challenges our common assumptions about nature and science, this book is for all who want to understand the biological revolution of the late twentieth century. In this clearly written, well-illustrated book, Holdrege describes, using fascinating examples, how living organisms develop and exist within the context of their environments. In an age when we are able to reshape life on earth, this book offers a deeper, more complex vision of nature, one that can help us establish a more conscious and responsible connection to the world around us.
Author : Sheldon Krimsky,Jeremy Gruber
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674071094
Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer’s, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a few scientific studies, and some in the biotechnology industry who should know better. Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber gather a team of genetic experts to argue that treating genes as the holy grail of our physical being is a patently unscientific endeavor. Genetic Explanations urges us to replace our faith in genetic determinism with scientific knowledge about how DNA actually contributes to human development. The concept of the gene has been steadily revised since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. No longer viewed by scientists as the cell’s fixed set of master molecules, genes and DNA are seen as a dynamic script that is ad-libbed at each stage of development. Rather than an autonomous predictor of disease, the DNA we inherit interacts continuously with the environment and functions differently as we age. What our parents hand down to us is just the beginning. Emphasizing relatively new understandings of genetic plasticity and epigenetic inheritance, the authors put into a broad developmental context the role genes are known to play in disease, behavior, evolution, and cognition. Rather than dismissing genetic reductionism out of hand, Krimsky and Gruber ask why it persists despite opposing scientific evidence, how it influences attitudes about human behavior, and how it figures in the politics of research funding.
Author : Benjamin Ginsberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442222380
One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted the Germans but actually played a major role in the defeat of Nazi Germany. The question, he contends, is not whether the Jews fought but where and by what means. True, many Jews were poorly armed, outnumbered, and without resources, but Ginsberg shows persuasively that this myth of passivity is solely that--a myth. Instead, the Jews resisted strongly in four key ways: through their leadership role in organizing the defense of the Soviet Union, their influence and scientific research in the United States, their contribution to allied espionage and cryptanalysis, and their importance in European resistance movements. In this compelling, cogent history, we discover that Jews contributed powerfully to Hitler's defeat.
Author : E. Richard Gold
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Body, Human
ISBN : 0878406611
In Body Parts, E. Richard Gold examines whether the body and materials derived from it--such as human organs and DNA--should be thought of as market commodities and subject to property law. Analyzing a series of court decisions concerning property rights, Gold explores whether the language and assumptions of property law can help society determine who has rights to human biological materials. Gold observes that the commercial opportunities unleashed by advances in biotechnology present a challenge to the ways that society has traditionally valued the human body and human health. In a balanced discussion of both commercial and individual perspectives, Gold asserts the need to understand human biological materials within the context of human values, rather than economic interests. This perceptive book will be welcomed by scholars and other professionals engaged in questions regarding bioethics, applied ethics, the philosophy of value, and property and intellectual property rights. Given the international aspects of both intellectual property law and biotechnology, this book will be of interest throughout the world and especially valuable in common-law (most English-speaking) countries.
Author : Gregory Stock,John Howland Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 9780195133028
A final section of short essays by lawyers, theologians, scientists and ethicists bring us a broader perspective on the core issues surrounding this debate: What would we do if this technology were safe and reliable? What are the concerns about its widespread use? How would such intervention be regulated? Would we be willing to genetically alter our own children given the possibility? Should we have this choice?"--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Harold W. Baillie,Timothy Casey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0262524287
An interdisciplinary exploration of whether modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future.
Author : Rictor Norton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474286923
With careful reasoning supported by wide-ranging scholarship, this study exposes the fallacies of 'social constructionist' theories within lesbian and gay studies and makes a forceful case for the autonomy of queer identity and culture. It presents evidence that queers are part of a centuries-old history, possessing a unified historical and cultural identity. The volume reviews the fundamental historiographical issues about the nature of queer history, arguing that a new generation of queer historians will need to abandon authoritarian dogma founded upon politically-correct ideology rather than historical experience. Norton offers a clear exposition of the evidence for ancient, indigenous and pre-modern queer cultural continuity, revealing how knowledge of that history has been suppressed and censored and sets out the 'queer cultural essentialist' position on the key topics of queer history – role, identity, bisexuality, orientation, linguistics, social control, homophobia, subcultures, and kinship patterns.
Author : John Robbins
Publisher : H J Kramer
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0915811804
The author calls for a revolution in health care, criticizing its hostility to alternative medicine and its bias against women.
Author : Allen Verhey
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780802865489
In this penetrating book Allen Verhey deftly unpacks the underlying human narratives or "myths" through which Western culture perceives "nature," and he presents the biblical narrative as an alternative story that can help shape a very different ethos for "nature and altering it." Although Christian Scripture has often been accused of nurturing arrogance toward nature, Verhey looks at the Bible in a way that moves beyond those accusations and demonstrates the value of the Christian narrative for contemporary ecological ethics. Book jacket.
Author : Ted Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136724282
Since the original publication of Playing God? in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have moved to the center of the public conversation about the ethics of human bioengineering. Cloning, the completion of the human genome project, and, most recently, the controversy over stem cell research have all sparked lively debates among religious thinkers and the makers of public policy. In this updated edition, Ted Peters illuminates the key issues in these debates and continues to make deft connections between our questions about God and our efforts to manage technological innovations with wisdom.
Author : Ho Mae-wan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813108882
The scope of this extraordinary selection of essays, distilled from nearly a thousand works that the author has written, is literally the entire universe and universe of knowledge. It charts the author's quest for the meaning of life faced with a dominant knowledge system she regards as incoherent, meaningless, and often acting against people and planet. She shows how contemporary scientific findings across all disciplines already provide an authentic knowledge system that's coherent with life and the universe. The aim is to transform science thoroughly from inspiration to research to applications that work for people and planet. This book is simply unique in its scope and content. There is no equivalent. The author surveys and explains contemporary science in depth ranging over philosophy, anthropology, quantum physics and chemistry, neurobiology, psychology, genetics and epigenetics, cosmology, art, humanities, and mathematics. It presents a truly holistic view of nature, with profound implications for life in the social, political, and personal realm.
Author : S. Wear,J.J. Bono,G. Logue,A. McEvoy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780306468797
of UB’s medical school, that UB developed its School of Arts and Sciences, and thus, assumed its place among the other institutions of higher education. Had Fillmore lived throughout UB’s first seventy years, he would probably have been elated by the success of his university, and he should have been satisfied and pleased that UB remained intrinsically bonded to its community while at the same time engrafting the values and standards important to higher education’s mission in the region. UB and its medical school have undergone many challenging transitions since 1846. Included among them were: (1) the completion of an academic campus in the far northeast comer of the City of Buffalo while leaving its medical, dental and law schools firmly situated in the core of downtown Buffalo; (2) the eventual relocation, after the second world war, of the law school to the newer campus in Amherst, and the medical and dental school to the original academic campus: and (3) the merger with the State University of New York System in 1962. Despite these significant transitions, any one of which could have changed the intrinsic integrity of UB and disrupted the bonding between community and university, that did not happen. To this day, the ties between community and academe persist. Fillmore and White should celebrate their success and important contribution to Buffalo and Western New York.
Author : Kostas Kampourakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107128132
An accessible but rigorous introduction to genes for non-experts, explaining what genes are and what they can and cannot do.
