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  • Industrial Uses of Biomass Energy

    The Example of Brazil

    Modifié par Frank Rosillo-Calle, Sergio V. Bajay, Harry Rothman ...
    Industrial Uses of Biomass Energy demonstrates that energy-rich vegetation, biomass, is a key renewable energy resource for the future. Brazil, uniquely, has a recent history of large-scale biomass industrial uses that makes it a specially important test-bed both for the development of biomass technology and its utilisation, and for understanding h ... En savoir plus

    $136.99 CAD

  • Splicing Life?

    The New Genetics and Society

    par Peter Glasner, Harry Rothman ...
    Collections series Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research
    Geno-technology is a technology unlike any other, with significant implications for life in the 21st century. It directly affects us at a deeply personal level, it poses a threat to the boundaries which conventionally define selfhood, it generates potentially novel risks and dangers, and it threatens the very basis of accepted understandings of culture and society. This unique, exploratory volume ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • Genetic Imaginations

    Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research

    par Peter Glasner, Harry Rothman ...
    Collections series Avebury Series in Philosophy
    The title of this book derives from C. Wright Mills’ classic The Sociological Imagination (Penguin, 1970), in which he sees the essential project of social science as the use of the imagination to 'grasp history and biography and the relations between the two in society'. This enables the social scientist to 'range from the most impersonal and remote transformations to the most intimate features ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Genes, Cells and Brains

    The Promethean Promises of the New Biology

    par Hilary Rose, Steven Rose ...
    Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the industry now dedicated to this new frontier. Since the launch of the multibillion-dollar Human Genome Project, the biosciences have promised miracle cures and radical new ways of understanding who we are. But where is the new world we were ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • New Genetics, New Social Formations

    Modifié par Peter Glasner, Paul Atkinson, Helen Greenslade ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Male Pill

    A Biography of a Technology in the Making

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Responsible Conduct of Research

    par Adil E. Shamoo, David B. Resnik ...
    Recent scandals and controversies, such as data fabrication in federally funded science, data manipulation and distortion in private industry, and human embryonic stem cell research, illustrate the importance of ethics in science. Responsible Conduct of Research, now in a completely updated second edition, provides an introduction to the social, ethical, and legal issues facing scientists today. ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Me Medicine vs. We Medicine

    Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good

    par Donna Dickenson ...
    Personalized healthcare—or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"—is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model. Technologies such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, pharmacogenetically developed therapies in cancer care, private umbilical cord blood banking, and neurocognitive enhancement claim to cater to an individual's specific biological ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society

    Modifié par Sahra Gibbon, Barbara Prainsack, Stephen Hilgartner, Janelle Lamoreaux ...
    Collections series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Handbook provides an essential resource at the interface of Genomics, Health and Society, and forms a crucial research tool for both new students and established scholars across biomedicine and social sciences. Building from and extending the first Routledge Handbook of Genetics and Society, the book offers a comprehensive introduction to pivotal themes within the field, an overview of the ... En savoir plus

    $93.99 CAD

  • Stem Cell Research and the Collaborative Regulation of Innovation

    par Sarah Devaney ...
    Collections series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Hopes are high that stem cell (SC) research will lead to treatments and cures for some of the most serious diseases affecting humankind today. SC science has been used in a treatment setting in the replacement of patients’ windpipes and in restoring sight to patients who were blind in one eye and in future it is hoped that when the body is injured it will be able to be stimulated to produce those ... En savoir plus

    $114.04 CAD

  • The Politics of Maternity

    par Rosemary Mander, Jo Murphy-Lawless ...
    The evidence surrounding the skills and approaches to support good birth has grown exponentially over the last two decades, but so too have the obstacles facing women and midwives who strive to achieve good birth.This new book critically explores the complex issues surrounding contemporary childbirth practices in a climate which is ever more medicalised amidst greater insecurity at broad social ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

  • Golden Cell

    Gene Therapy, Stem Cells and the Quest for the Next Great Medical Breakthrough

    par Karen Van Kampen ...
    The promise of a regenerative medicine -- the regrowth of lost limbs and organs, new hope for patients with Alzheimer's or multiple sclerosis, the "cellular fountain of youth" -- sounds like science fiction, but it's real and on the cutting edge of medicine. Veteran medical journalist Karen van Kamped looks at this new technology through the stories of the scientists who are creating it and the ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD