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  • Was ist Homosexualität?

    Forschungsgeschichte, gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen und Perspektiven

    by Franz X. Eder, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Heiko Stoff, Gert Hekma, Thomas K Gugler, Katie Sutton, Volker Woltersdorff, Kirsten Leng, Laurie Marhoefer, Lukas Engelmann, Jane Freeland, Davies Jacqueline, Udo Schüklenk, Heinz-Jürgen Voss, Udo Rauchfleisch, Eva Rieger, Thorsten Benkel, Wolfgang von Wangenheim, Manfred Herzer, Dominic J. T. Frohn, Martin Lücke, Peter Rehberg, Bradley Boovy ...
    Umreißt man heute die Ambivalenz, Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft von Homosexualität, so ist die Antwort auf die Frage gar nicht so einfach. Lange Zeit hätte man einfach gesagt: das Gegenteil von Heterosexualität, pervers, nicht den sexuellen Normen entsprechend, die innerhalb der westlichen Welt weitgehend akzeptiert waren. In einer globalisierten Welt, die gewachsene Strukturen und kulturelle ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Biologics, A History of Agents Made From Living Organisms in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Alexander von Schwerin, Heiko Stoff, Bettina Wahrig ...
    Series series Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
    The use of biologics – drugs made from living organisms – has raised specific scientific, industrial, medical and legal issues. The essays contained in this collection each deal with a case study of a biologic substance, or group of biologics, and its use during the twentieth century. ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

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  • Our Daily Poison

    From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick

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  • Toxic Bodies

    Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES

    by Nancy Langston ...
    In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor—a chemical that mimics hormones. Although researchers knew that DES caused cancer and disrupted sexual development, doctors prescribed it for millions of women, initially for menopause and then ... Read more

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  • Sex Itself

    The Search for Male & Female in the Human Genome

    by Sarah S. Richardson ...
    Human genomes are 99.9 percent identical—with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking about sex represented by the unalterable, simple, and visually compelling binary of the X and Y chromosomes, Sex Itself examines the interaction between ... Read more

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  • A Cultural History of Heredity

    by Staffan Müller-Wille, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger ...
    "Thought-provoking…any scientist interested in genetics will find this an enlightening look at the history of this field."— Quarterly Review of BiologyIt was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter, it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology.Here, Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a ... Read more

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nick James ...
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    In 1961 John F. Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Nine years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Ten years later, Richard Nixon echoed this pledge by declaring a 'war' on cancer. More than 30 years later, however, cancer remains one of the largest causes of death worldwide, with around 1 in 3 developing the disease. Curing cancer is not ... Read more

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  • The Male Pill

    A Biography of a Technology in the Making

    by Nelly Oudshoorn ...
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  • Getting Risk Right

    Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks

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  • The Gene

    From Genetics to Postgenomics

    by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Staffan Müller-Wille ...
    Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual transformation, and some scientists are questioning the very usefulness of the concept of the gene, arguing instead for more systemic perspectives.The time could not be better, therefore, for Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan ... Read more

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