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Author : Norbert Wiener
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Cybernetics
ISBN : UOM:39015004546365
Author : Austen Garwood-Gowers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317064893
Whilst activities like transplantation and medical research have typically been considered on a discrete basis, they are also actually part of a broader phenomenon of medical means being employed to make use of human beings. This book is the first ever systematic critique of such medical use of the human being as a whole. It is divided into two parts. The first part considers what constitutes an appropriate normative lens through which to view such medical use and its constraint. It makes a reasoned ethical and human-rights-based case for preferring respect for human worth over any of the main alternative approaches that have been drawn on in specific contexts and outlines what this preference practically implies. The second part uses this respect-based lens to critique use discourse, law and practice. Drawing on three contrasting case study areas of warfare-related medical use, transplantation and human tissue research, this book exposes both the context-specific and thematic nature of shortfalls in respect. Overall this book provides a compelling analysis of how medical use ought to be constrained and a compelling critique of the excesses of discourse, practice and governance. It is recommended to academics, students, policymakers and professionals whose work is focused on or intersects with the medical sector and anyone else with an interest in medicine and its limits.
Author : Norbert Wiener
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Cybernetics
ISBN : OCLC:1077808494
Author : Patrick R. Frierson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415558440
Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature. In this lucid and wide-ranging introduction to Kant's philosophy of human nature - which is essential for understanding his thought as a whole - Patrick Frierson assesses Kant's theories and examines his critics.
Author : Samuel B. Condic,Maureen L. Condic
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780813230238
A tale of two ontologies : are humans designated or discovered?. - Ontology and embryos : on being an embryo. - Arguments from ontology : it can't be human because it contradicts, ontologically. - Arguments from potential : it can't be human because it contradicts, factually. - Arguments from observation : it could be human, but the facts suggest otherwise. - Developmental systems theory and fuzzy organisms : it's not human until we say it's human. - The postmodern connection : form, fiat, and intention. - Humans and organization : defining the hallmarks of human existence. - Some difficult cases : a practical guide for evaluation. - A contested case : altered nuclear transfer : how to evaluate entities produced by experimenters. - Metaphysics matters.
Author : Thomas Fuchs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780192898197
With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being increasingly appears to be just a product of data and algorithms. That is, we conceive ourselves in the image of our machines, and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of human nature culminate in transhumanist visions of taking human evolution to a new stage. Against this self-reification of the human being, this book defends a humanism of embodiment: our corporeality, vitality, embodied freedom are the foundations of a self-determined existence, which uses these new technologies only as a means, instead of letting them rule us. In Defence of the Human Being offers an array of interventions directed against a reductionist naturalism or transhumanism in various areas of science and society. As alternative it offers an embodied and enactive account of the human person: we are neither pure minds nor brains, but primarily embodied, living beings in relation with others. Fuchs applied this concept to issues such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism and enhancement, virtual reality, neuroscience, embodied freedom, psychiatry, and finally to the accelerating dynamics of current society which lead to an increasing disembodiment of our everyday conduct of life. Cutting across neuroscience, philosophy, and psychiatry, this important new book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to the current scientific, technological and cultural tendencies that will crucially influence our society's development in the 21st century.
Author : H.A. Ten Have,Jozef Welie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0792351509
This is the first book in healthcare ethics addressing the moral issues regarding ownership of the human body. Modern medicine increasingly transforms the body and makes use of body parts for diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive purposes. The book analyzes the concept of body ownership. It also reviews the ownership issues arising in clinical care (for example, donation policies, autopsy) and biomedical research. Societies and legal systems also have to deal with issues of body ownership. A comparison is made between specific legal arrangements in The Netherlands and France, as examples of legal approaches. In the final section of the book, different theoretical perspectives on the human body are analyzed: libertarian, personalist, deontological and utilitarian theories of body ownership.
Author : Norbert Wiener
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262537841
A classic and influential work that laid the theoretical foundations for information theory and a timely text for contemporary informations theorists and practitioners. With the influential book Cybernetics, first published in 1948, Norbert Wiener laid the theoretical foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics, the study of controlling the flow of information in systems with feedback loops, be they biological, mechanical, cognitive, or social. At the core of Wiener's theory is the message (information), sent and responded to (feedback); the functionality of a machine, organism, or society depends on the quality of messages. Information corrupted by noise prevents homeostasis, or equilibrium. And yet Cybernetics is as philosophical as it is technical, with the first chapter devoted to Newtonian and Bergsonian time and the philosophical mixed with the technical throughout. This book brings the 1961 second edition back into print, with new forewords by Doug Hill and Sanjoy Mitter. Contemporary readers of Cybernetics will marvel at Wiener's prescience—his warnings against “noise,” his disdain for “hucksters” and “gadget worshipers,” and his view of the mass media as the single greatest anti-homeostatic force in society. This edition of Cybernetics gives a new generation access to a classic text.
Author : Calvin Martin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300085524
In this volume, Calvin Luther Martin proposes that the Europeans learned what they wished to learn from the native Americans, not what the Americans actually meant. Drawing on his own experience with native people and on their stories, he offers the reader a different conceptual landscape.
Author : Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Child development
ISBN : 187934100X
Author : Norbert Wiener
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780262535441
Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume. Norbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics combines for the first time the two volumes of Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography. Published at the height of public enthusiasm for cybernetics—when it was taken up by scientists, engineers, science fiction writers, artists, and musicians—Ex-Prodigy (1953) and I Am a Mathematician (1956) received attention from both scholarly and mainstream publications, garnering reviews and publicity in outlets that ranged from the New York Times and New York Post to the Virginia Quarterly Review. Norbert Wiener was a mathematician with extraordinarily broad interests. The son of a Harvard professor of Slavic languages, Wiener was reading Dante and Darwin at seven, graduated from Tufts at fourteen, and received a PhD from Harvard at eighteen. He joined MIT's Department of Mathematics in 1919, where he remained until his death in 1964 at sixty-nine. In Ex-Prodigy, Wiener offers an emotionally raw account of being raised as a child prodigy by an overbearing father. In I Am a Mathematician, Wiener describes his research at MIT and how he established the foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics and the theory of feedback systems. This volume makes available the essence of Wiener's life and thought to a new generation of readers.
Author : Katherine McKittrick
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822375852
The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore race, the legacy of colonialism, and representations of humanness. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis is a critical genealogy of Wynter’s work, highlighting her insights on how race, location, and time together inform what it means to be human. The contributors explore Wynter’s stunning reconceptualization of the human in relation to concepts of blackness, modernity, urban space, the Caribbean, science studies, migratory politics, and the interconnectedness of creative and theoretical resistances. The collection includes an extensive conversation between Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick that delineates Wynter’s engagement with writers such as Frantz Fanon, W. E. B. DuBois, and Aimé Césaire, among others; the interview also reveals the ever-extending range and power of Wynter’s intellectual project, and elucidates her attempts to rehistoricize humanness as praxis.
Author : Geof Kaufman
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781504366595
Whats your name? Xander. Whats yours? Im Serenity, she said, sipping her drink. Serenity. What a perfect name, Xander thought. He looked again at the tranquil blue energy cloud surrounding her. His own cloud was similar to hers in that it was mostly blue, but it contained hints of other colors at times. His also moved slowly, but not as slowly or as gracefully as Serenitys. So, you can see them, too, she stated. Energy clouds? Yes, I can see them, too, he answered, breaking his stare at her cloud. He remembered her admitting to seeing his energy cloud when they first met at the pool ten years ago. She probably doesnt even remember me from there, he thought, but maybe she does from the ice cream shop. That was only a couple of years ago. I do remember you. We saw each other at the pool and at the ice cream shop. Xander could feel his heart beating hard in his chest. Did she just read my thoughts? he wondered. Energy clouds. Hmm, Serenity said, pondering the term. I like it but I call them auras.
Author : Gavin Francis
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781782831044
Sunday Times bestseller We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; from the pulse of life at the wrist to the unique engineering of the foot. Drawing on his own experiences as a doctor and GP, he blends first-hand case studies with reflections on the way the body has been imagined and portrayed over the millennia. If the body is a foreign country, then to practise medicine is to explore new territory: Francis leads the reader on an adventure through what it means to be human. Both a user's guide to the body and a celebration of its elegance, this book will transform the way you think about being alive, whether in sickness or in health. Published in association with the Wellcome Collection. WELLCOME COLLECTION Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death. Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive, funding over 14,000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries. wellcomecollection.org
Author : Dr Sarah Ferber,Ms Sally Wilde
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781409482840
Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harvested for research and therapeutic purposes, collected to turn into museum and other specimens, and then displayed, disposed of, and exchanged. This book examines the history of such activities, from the early nineteenth century through to the present, as they took place in hospitals, universities, workhouses, asylums and museums in England, Australia and elsewhere. Through a series of case studies, the volume reveals the changing scientific, economic and emotional value of corpses and their contested place in medical science.
