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Basic Bioethics eBook Series

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  • In Search of the Good

    A Life in Bioethics

    by Daniel Callahan ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    One of the founding fathers of bioethics describes the development of the field and his thinking on some of the crucial issues of our time.Daniel Callahan helped invent the field of bioethics more than forty years ago when he decided to use his training in philosophy to grapple with ethical problems in biology and medicine. Disenchanted with academic philosophy because of its analytical bent and ... Read more

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    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order.Classical liberalism is in a state of crisis. Developed in the wake of Europe’s wars over religion and nationalism, liberalism is a system for governing diverse societies, which is grounded in fundamental principles of equality and the rule of law. It emphasizes ... Read more

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  • Sociology Study Guide: Society, Culture, Socialization, Groups , Deviance And Norms, Sexuality, Organizational Behavior, Inequality, Institutions And Mass Media, Famous Sociologists (Mobi Study Guides)

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    Sociology Study Guide: Society, Culture, Socialization, Groups , Deviance and Norms, Sexuality, Organizational Behavior, Inequality, Institutions and Mass media, Famous SociologistsFEATURES:-Clear and concise explanations. -Search for words or phrases. -Add Bookmarks -Text annotation and mark-up -Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway. -Use your down time to ... Read more

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  • Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation

    by Frances Widdowson,Albert Howard ...
    By examining the root causes of aboriginal problems Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard expose the industry that has grown up around land claim settlements showing that aboriginal policy development over the past thirty years has been manipulated by non-aboriginal lawyers and consultants. They analyse all the major aboriginal policies examine issues that have received little critical attention - ... Read more

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  • The Body

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Shilling ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or culture. Since the mid-1980s, however, there has been a rising awareness of how our bodies, and our perception of them, are influenced by the social, cultural and material contexts in which humans live. ... Read more

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  • Designs on Nature

    Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Disabling Professions

    by Ivan Illich ...
    In this fascinating and controversial collection of essays Ivan Illich, Irving K Zola, John McKnight, Jonathan Caplan and Harley Shaiken challenge the power and mystery of professions. Why do we put so much resource into medicine, education and the law with so little apparent result? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? By analyzing these ... Read more

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  • A Larger Sense of Purpose

    Higher Education and Society

    by Harold T. Shapiro ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Universities were once largely insular institutions whose purview extended no further than the campus gates. Not anymore. Today's universities have evolved into multifaceted organizations with complex connections to government, business, and the community. This thought-provoking book by Harold Shapiro, former president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan, and Chairman of ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel

    The Fate of Human Societies

    by Riley Quinn ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfolded so differently in various parts of the globe. His results offer new explanations for why the unequal divisions of power and wealth so familiar to us today came into existence – and have persisted ... Read more

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  • Peter Singer Under Fire

    The Moral Iconoclast Faces His Critics

    Edited by Ph.D. Jeffrey A. Schaler ...
    One of the leading ethical thinkers of the modern age, Peter Singer has repeatedly been embroiled in controversy. Protesters in Germany closed down his lectures, mistakenly thinking he was advocating Nazi views on eugenics. Conservative publisher Steve Forbes withdrew generous donations to Princeton after Singer was appointed professor of bioethics. His belief that infanticide is sometimes morally ... Read more

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  • Bird on an Ethics Wire

    Battles about Values in the Culture Wars

    by Margaret Somerville ...
    Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem - the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret Somerville explores the values needed to maintain a world that reasonable people would want to live ... Read more

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  • Thieves of Virtue

    When Bioethics Stole Medicine

    by Tom Koch ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    An argument against the “lifeboat ethic” of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring.Bioethics emerged in the 1960s from a conviction that physicians and researchers needed the guidance of philosophers in handling the issues raised by technological advances in medicine. It blossomed as a response to the perceived doctor-knows-best ... Read more

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