Skip to main content
Search Button
Librairie Kobo Canada Cartes cadeau Aide
Kobo Rakuten
Ma liste d'envies

Panier

Vous profitez des avantages réservés aux VIP !

Article(s) non disponible(s) à la vente
Veuillez vérifier votre panier. Vous pouvez supprimer le ou les articles qui ne sont pas disponibles maintenant ou nous les supprimerons automatiquement au moment du règlement de la commande.
articlesarticle
articlesarticle

Recommandé pour vous

Loading...


Inscriptions Série de Livres électroniques

1-12 sur 12 résultats
Skip side bar filters

  • The elephant and the dragon in contemporary life sciences

    A call for decolonising global governance

    par Joy Y. Zhang, Saheli Datta Burton ...
    Collections Livre 5 - Inscriptions
    This book provides a powerful diagnosis of why the global governance of science struggles in the face of emerging powers. Through unpacking critical events in China and India over the past twenty years, it demonstrates that the ‘subversiveness’ assumed in the two countries’ rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared worldwide. It points to a decolonial ... En savoir plus

    $40.69 CAD

Les lecteurs de ce roman ont aussi aimé

  • Designs on Nature

    Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • A Sociology of Family Life

    Change and Diversity in Intimate Relations

    par Deborah Chambers, Pablo Gracia ...
    Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second edition, presents a comprehensive assessment of recent research on 'family', parenting, childhood and interpersonal ties.A Sociology of Family Life queries assumptions about a disintegration of 'the family' by revealing a ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • People's Science

    Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier

    par Ruha Benjamin ...
    Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments—good or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from grace—ignoring the people affected. With this book, Ruha Benjamin moves the terms of debate to focus on the shifting ... En savoir plus

    $30.79 CAD

  • Body Politics in Development

    Critical Debates in Gender and Development

    par Wendy Harcourt ...
    Body Politics in Development sets out to define body politics as a key political and mobilizing force for human rights in the last two decades. This passionate and engaging book reveals how once-tabooed issues, such as rape, gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive rights, have emerged into the public arena as critical grounds of contention and struggle.Engaging in the latest feminist ... En savoir plus

    $37.09 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

    Gratuit

  • Health Activism

    Foundations and Strategies

    par Glenn Laverack ...
    Activism is action on behalf of a cause, action that goes beyond what is conventional or routine and is relative to the actions by others.Health activism is a growing area of interest for many who work to improve health at both national and international levels because it offers a more direct approach to achieve lasting social and political change. This book, for the first time, provides a clear ... En savoir plus

    $89.59 CAD

  • Global Health and International Relations

    par Colin McInnes, Kelley Lee ...
    The long separation of health and International Relations, as distinct academic fields and policy arenas, has now dramatically changed. Health, concerned with the body, mind and spirit, has traditionally focused on disease and infirmity, whilst International Relations has been dominated by concerns of war, peace and security. Since the 1990s, however, the two fields have increasingly overlapped. ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Access to Medicines as a Human Right

    Implications for Pharmaceutical Industry Responsibility

    par Lisa Forman, Jillian Clare Kohler ...
    According to the World Health Organization, one-third of the global population lacks access to essential medicines. Should pharmaceutical companies be ethically or legally responsible for providing affordable medicines for these people, even though they live outside of profitable markets? Can the private sector be held accountable for protecting human beings' right to health?This thought-provoking ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

  • Asian Biotech

    Ethics and Communities of Fate

    par Michael M. J. Fischer, Joseph Dumit, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Charis Thompson ...
    Collections series Experimental Futures
    Providing the first overview of Asia’s emerging biosciences landscape, this timely and important collection brings together ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, blood collection in Singapore and China, and stem-cell research in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. While biotech policies and projects vary by country, ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • Sustainable Development Disciplines for Humanity

    Breaking Down the 5Ps—People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnerships

    Modifié par Shujiro Urata, Kazuo Kuroda, Yoshiko Tonegawa ...
    Collections series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Open Access book provides eight problem solving lectures for sustainable development for people, peace, and partnerships. Those are three of the five keywords for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): people, the planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships or “the 5Ps”.Each of these lectures is classified into one of the keywords for SDGs and based on the history of social thought, human ... En savoir plus

    Gratuit

  • Science and Citizens

    Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement

    Modifié par Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Brian Wynne ...
    Collections series Claiming Citizenship
    Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around ... En savoir plus

    $51.49 CAD