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Inside Technology Serie de eBooks

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  • Good Science

    The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research

    de Charis Thompson ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    An examination of a decade and a half of political controversy, ethical debate, and scientific progress in stem cell research.After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo—only a tacit agreement to disagree—but the debate now takes place in a context in which human stem cell research and related ... Leer más

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  • Fatal Invention

    How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

    de Dorothy Roberts ...
    An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a ... Leer más

    $15,981 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Designs on Nature

    Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States

    de Sheila Jasanoff ...
    Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and new reproductive technologies crowd media headlines and policy agendas. Less noticed, but no less important, are the rifts that have appeared among leading Western nations about the right way to govern innovation in genetics and ... Leer más

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  • Inclusion

    The Politics of Difference in Medical Research

    de Steven Epstein ...
    With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions.Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists often studied groups of white, middle-aged men—and assumed that conclusions drawn from studying them ... Leer más

    $24,527 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

    The Global Politics of Population Control

    de Betsy Hartmann ...
    "Those involved in women's health issues, Third World studies, and economic development should find food for thought" ( Kirkus Reviews).This is an updated edition of the "influential study" ( Publishers Weekly) of issues surrounding childbirth and the history of population control programs.Challenging conventional wisdom about overpopulation, and uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, ... Leer más

    $15,981 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Male Pill

    A Biography of a Technology in the Making

    de Nelly Oudshoorn ...
    The Male Pill is the first book to reveal the history of hormonal contraceptives for men. Nelly Oudshoorn explains why it is that, although the technical feasibility of male contraceptives was demonstrated as early as the 1970s, there is, to date, no male pill. Ever since the idea of hormonal contraceptives for men was introduced, scientists, feminists, journalists, and pharmaceutical ... Leer más

    Antes $28,592 CLP Ahora $25,567 CLP

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $45,318 CLP

  • Scrambling for Africa

    AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science

    de Johanna Tayloe Crane ...
    Series series Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
    Anthropologist Crane (Univ. of Washington-Bothell) presents a solidly documented and well-reasoned discussion of AIDS and its far-reaching effects. An excellent overview deals with resistance to treatment.. Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, professionals.―ChoiceA work of outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship, Scrambling for Africa will be of interest to audiences in anthropology, ... Leer más

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  • People's Science

    Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier

    de Ruha Benjamin ...
    Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments—good or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from grace—ignoring the people affected. With this book, Ruha Benjamin moves the terms of debate to focus on the shifting ... Leer más

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  • Seizing the Means of Reproduction

    Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience

    de M. Murphy ...
    Series series Experimental futures
    In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, M. Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the ... Leer más

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  • New Genetics, New Social Formations

    Edición de Peter Glasner, Paul Atkinson, Helen Greenslade ...
    Series series Genetics and Society
    New genetic technologies cut across a range of public regulatory domains and private lifeworlds, often appearing to generate an institutional void in response to the complex challenges they pose. As a result, a number of new social formations are being developed to legitimate public engagement and avoid the perceived democratic deficit that may result. Papers in this volume discuss a variety of ... Leer más

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  • European Union Health Law

    Themes and Implications

    de Tamara K. Hervey, Jean V. McHale ...
    Series series Law in Context
    A contextual analysis of the internal logics of EU health law through four themes: consumerism; (human) rights; interactions between equality, solidarity and competition; and risk. Leading authors in the emergent field explain the interactions and implications of EU health law through thematic reinterpretation of the law in context in key substantive areas, such as the regulation of health ... Leer más

    $167,456 CLP