This book offers a deep insight into the genesis and development of the European Commission's energy and climate legislation, focusing on the interplay of politics and science. How does the Commission react when confronted with knowledge? According to the author, the Commission functions as catalyst transforming knowledge into politics.

**New York Times Book Review"[S]mart, delightful... a splendidly entertaining education in ethics, activism and science.”Editors's Choice, New York Times Book Review**An impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and a clarion call to intellectual responsibility, Galileo’s Middle Finger is one American’s eye-opening story of life in the trenches of scientific controversy. For two decades, historian Alice Dreger has led a life of extraordin...

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. F...

A powerful defense of intellectual freedom told through the ordeals of contemporary scientists attacked for exploring controversial ideas, by a noted science historian and medical activistAn investigation of some of the most contentious debates of our time, Galileo’s Middle Finger describes Alice Dreger’s experiences on the front lines of scientific controversy, where for two decades she has worked as an advocate for victims of unethical research while also defending the right of s...

Książka powstała w wyniku realizacji przez autora i ilustratora książki, programu dla dzieci z młodszych klas szkoły podstawowej pt. Origami- sztuka składania papieru. Zawarte są w niej wiersze oraz prace plastyczne wykonane metodą origami płaskie na bazie koła czy kwadratów.

Der digitale Wandel ist allgegenwärtig und verändert Markt, Mensch und Gesellschaft. Kein Unternehmen kann sich der Digitalisierung des Business entziehen. Veränderungen sind notwendig, die Möglichkeiten zur Verbesserung der Kommunikation mit dem Kunden und innerhalb des Betriebs sind verwirrend. Es fehlt an Orientierung in diesem "digitalen Wahnsinn", und die bietet dieses Buch. Es liefert einen Leitfaden aus Best-Practice-Beispielen und Erfahrungen aus vielen Beratungen und Workshops.

Must children born with socially challenging anatomies have their bodies changed because others cannot be expected to change their minds? One of Us views conjoined twinning and other “abnormalities” from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics.Anatomy matters, Alice Domurat Dreger tells us, because the senses we possess, the muscles we control, and the resources we requir...

In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of the affluent, so much so that it became a badge of uppercrust honor—and a medical excuse to avoid hard work. Today, is there such a thing as mental illness, or is mental illness just a myth? Is Alzheimer's really a disease? What is menopause—a bi...

Die Belastungen steigen, die Kräfte schwinden: Ein Burnout droht. In diesem Ratgeber finden Sie praktische Anregungen, wie Sie wieder entspannen, genießen und frische Energie sammeln, anstatt erschöpft, gestresst und ausgebrannt To-do-Listen abzuarbeiten.Sie erfahren, was Sie selbst dazu beitragen können, um Burnout vorzubeugen oder zu lindern. Das alles gelingt mit dem jahrtausendealten Wissen des Qigong, der altchinesischen Philosophie und der Traditionellen Chinesischen Medizin,...

Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites--people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy--and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France and Britain in the late nineteenth century, a moment of great tension for questions of sex roles. While feminists, homosexuals, and anthropological explorers openly questioned the natures and purposes of the two sexes, anatomical ...

Avery Jennings is a punk-rock guitarist with a secret weakness for rom-coms and Taylor Swift. Her band, Detonate the Gazelle is ready to move to Austin after graduation, but Avery is having second thoughts. She’s fallen hard for Madison Shea, student council president with a douchebag boyfriend, after their orbits collide at Oak Bluff High’s inaugural Gay-Straight Alliance meeting. Even though it goes against her rules about crushing on straight girls, Avery relentlessly pursues Madison. T...

Speaking from and to the growing movement among academics to become involved with 'socially-engaged' work, this volume presents first-person case studies of attempts to fix serious ethical problems in medical practice and research. It highlights the critical difference between the pundit approach to bioethics and the interventional approach - the talkers and the doers - and points to how abused and damaged the doers often end up. Chapters cover a diverse set of topics, including the troubl...