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Basic Bioethics eBook Series

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  • Bioethics and Brains

    A Disciplined and Principled Neuroethics

    by John R. Shook, James Giordano ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    How neuroethics can be increasingly relevant and informative for inclusive social policy and political discourse about brain science and technologies.Neuroethics, a field just over two decades old, addresses both ethical issues generated in and by brain sciences and the neuroscientific studies of moral and ethical thought and action. These foci are reciprocally interactive and prompt questions of ... Read more

    34,76 €

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    Building a Capacity for Change

    by Peter J. Zsebik ...
    Public education, once considered a dogmatic institution in the 20th century, now finds itself challenged at almost every level in todays sociopolitical environment. New realities, as evidenced by the political complexities of the global village, widespread technological advances that undermine established educational practices, and ever mounting pressures on the curriculum to appease corporate ... Read more

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  • Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry

    The Birth of Postpsychiatry

    by Bradley Lewis ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead."--Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature of the philosophy of psychiatry."--Christian Perring, ... Read more

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  • The Ambiguities of Experience

    by James G. March ...
    Series series Messenger Lectures
    The first component of intelligence involves effective adaptation to an environment. In order to adapt effectively, organizations require resources, capabilities at using them, knowledge about the worlds in which they exist, good fortune, and good decisions. They typically face competition for resources and uncertainties about the future. Many, but possibly not all, of the factors determining ... Read more

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  • Introduction to Intersectional Qualitative Research

    by Jennifer Esposito, Venus Evans-Winters ...
    Recipient of a 2022 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA)Introduction to Intersectional Qualitative Research, by Jennifer Esposito and Venus Evans-Winters, introduces students and new researchers to the basic aspects of qualitative research including research design, data collection, and analysis, in a way that allows intersectional concerns to be ... Read more

    64,54 €

  • An Invitation to Social Construction

    Co-Creating the Future

    by Kenneth J. Gergen ...
    This fully updated fourth edition of Gergen’s An Invitation to Social Construction introduces you to a key theoretical movement in contemporary social science through a wide range of multidisciplinary examples.The fourth edition includes:wider consideration of contemporary global challenges,increased coverage of media, digital culture, and relevant political issues,updated real-world examples of ... Read more

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  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

    Working towards Decolonization, Indigeneity and Interculturalism

    Edited by Fatima Pirbhai-Illich, Shauneen Pete, Fran Martin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book convincingly argues that effective culturally responsive pedagogies require teachers to firstly undertake a critical deconstruction of Self in relation to and with the Other; and secondly, to take into account how power affects the socio-political, cultural and historical contexts in which the education relation takes place. The contributing authors are from a range of diaspora, ... Read more

    28,61 €

  • Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences

    by F. Callard, D. Fitzgerald ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Rooting itself in the authors' own experiences, the book establishes a radical agenda for collaboration across these disciplines. This book is open access under a CC-BY license. ... Read more

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  • Critical English for Academic Purposes

    Theory, Politics, and Practice

    by Sarah Benesch ...
    Critical English for Academic Purposes: Theory, Politics, and Practice is the first book to combine the theory and practice of two fields: English for academic purposes and critical pedagogy. English for academic purposes (EAP) grounds English language teaching in the cognitive and linguistic demands of academic situations, tailoring instruction to specific rather than general purposes. Critical ... Read more

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  • Social Science

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alexander Betts ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Social science is the study of human behaviour. It offers the tools to understand and explain people's choices and actions, and how they live together in communities. With insights from social science, organisations and individuals may be persuaded to change their behaviour, making a difference in addressing societal challenges, from climate ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Human Enhancement

    Understanding the Debate

    Edited by Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu, C.A.J. Coady, Alberto Giubilini, Sagar Sanyal ...
    We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities in more ways in the near future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of wide use of human enhancement technologies, while others have viewed it with alarm, and ... Read more

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  • Practicing Therapy as Social Construction

    by Sheila McNamee, Pedro Martins, Emerson F Rasera ...
    This book is a comprehensive introduction to social constructionist ideas and their application within the psychological therapies.Whether you are a trainee or qualified therapist, this book will support you to think about therapy as a socially constructed and relational process, and to develop as a more culturally, socially and politically aware practitioner. It advocates for ‘therapist activists ... Read more

    48,54 €