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25 produkter
What Is a Human?
What the Answers Mean for Human Rights
Inbunden, 2016
876 kr
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What is a human? Are humans those with human DNA, those in possession of traits like rationality, or those made in the image of God? The debate over what makes human beings unique has raged for centuries. Many think that if society accepts the wrong definition of what it is to be human, people will …
What Is a Human?
What the Answers Mean for Human Rights
E-bok, 2016
550 kr
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What is a human? Are humans those with human DNA, those in possession of traits like rationality, or those made in the image of God? The debate over what makes human beings unique has raged for centuries. Many think that if society accepts the wrong definition of what it is to be human, people will …
What Is a Human?
What the Answers Mean for Human Rights
E-bok, 2016
550 kr
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What is a human? Are humans those with human DNA, those in possession of traits like rationality, or those made in the image of God? The debate over what makes human beings unique has raged for centuries. Many think that if society accepts the wrong definition of what it is to be human, people will …
The Human Gene Editing Debate
Inbunden, 2020
506 kr
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In 2018 the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012. This controversial advancement overturned the pre-existing moral consensus, which had held for over fifty years before: while gene editing an adult person was …
Human Gene Editing Debate
E-bok, 2020
397 kr
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In 2018 the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012. This controversial advancement overturned the pre-existing moral consensus, which had held for over fifty years before: while gene editing an adult person was …
Human Gene Editing Debate
E-bok, 2020
397 kr
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In 2018 the first genetically modified babies were reportedly born in China, made possible by the invention of CRISPR technology in 2012. This controversial advancement overturned the pre-existing moral consensus, which had held for over fifty years before: while gene editing an adult person was …
Disembodied Brains
Understanding our Intuitions on Human-Animal Neuro-Chimeras and Human Brain Organoids
Inbunden, 2024
387 kr
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Recent new technologies have brought the realm of science fiction to reality. The development of human-animal neuro-chimeras, which are animals with some component of a human brain, plays into society's long-standing fascination with the crossover between humans and animals. In the same way, the …
Disembodied Brains
Understanding our Intuitions on Human-Animal Neuro-Chimeras and Human Brain Organoids
E-bok, 2023
277 kr
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Recent new technologies have brought the realm of science fiction to reality. The development of human-animal neuro-chimeras, which are animals with some component of a human brain, plays into society''s long-standing fascination with the crossover between humans and animals. In the same way, the …
Disembodied Brains
Understanding our Intuitions on Human-Animal Neuro-Chimeras and Human Brain Organoids
E-bok, 2024
277 kr
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Recent new technologies have brought the realm of science fiction to reality. The development of human-animal neuro-chimeras, which are animals with some component of a human brain, plays into society''s long-standing fascination with the crossover between humans and animals. In the same way, the …
Making Better Humans
How We Think About Human Enhancement
Inbunden, 2026
420 kr
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Silicon Valley technology leaders want to radically enhance humans, giving us traits that no human has had before. Plans for radical life extension, improved cognitive traits, mood enhancement, disease immunity and much more are under way, and these technology leaders have a cultural and political …
The History and Future of Bioethics
A Sociological View
Häftad, 2014
770 kr
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.It seems like every day society faces a new ethical challenge raised by a scientific innovation. Human …
The History and Future of Bioethics
A Sociological View
Inbunden, 2012
1445 kr
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.It seems like every day society faces a new ethical challenge raised by a scientific innovation. Human …
History and Future of Bioethics
A Sociological View
E-bok, 2011
404 kr
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It seems like every day society faces a new ethical challenge raised by a scientific innovation. Human genetic engineering, stem cell research, face transplantation, synthetic biology - all were science fiction only a few decades ago, but now are all reality. How do we as a society decide whether …
Playing God?
Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate
Inbunden, 2002
867 kr
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Technology evolves at a dazzling speed, and nowhere more so than in the field of genetic engineering, where the possibility of directly changing the genes of one's children is quickly becoming a reality. The public is rightly concerned, but interestingly, they have not had much to say about the …
Playing God?
Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate
Häftad, 2002
347 kr
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Technology evolves at a dazzling speed, and nowhere more so than in the field of genetic engineering, where the possibility of directly changing the genes of one's children is quickly becoming a reality. The public is rightly concerned, but interestingly, they have not had much to say about the …
Contested Reproduction
Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate
Inbunden, 2010
577 kr
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Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring. In fact, this reality has arrived - and it is only a matter of time before the technology becomes widespread. Much like past arguments about stem-cell …
Quiet Hand of God
Faith-Based Activism and the Public Role of Mainline Protestantism
Av Robert Wuthnow, John H. Evans
Häftad, 2002
428 kr
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Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans bring together a stellar collection of essays that paints a contemporary portrait of American Protestantism--a denomination that has remained quietly, but firmly, influential in the public sphere. Mainline Protestants may have steered clear of the controversial, …
Morals Not Knowledge
Recasting the Contemporary U.S. Conflict between Religion and Science
Häftad, 2018
443 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In a time when conservative politicians challenge the irrefutability of scientific findings such as climate change, …
Quiet Hand of God
Faith-Based Activism and the Public Role of Mainline Protestantism
Av John H. Evans, Robert Wuthnow
E-bok, 2002
503 kr
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Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans bring together a stellar collection of essays that paints a contemporary portrait of American Protestantism—a denomination that has remained quietly, but firmly, influential in the public sphere. Mainline Protestants may have steered clear of the controversial, …
Cultural Sociology and Its Diversity
Av Amy J. Binder, Mary Blair-Loy m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
1074 kr
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What is the cultural approach to sociology? Although there are many paths to understanding society, all branches of sociology integrate meaning. A cultural approach requires an intellectual sensitivity toward meaning, a way of putting emphasis on the human experience. Whether studying race and …
Adolescent and Pre-Adolescent Psychiatry
E-bok, 2013
831 kr
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Adolescent and Pre-Adolescent Psychiatry covers the observations, concepts, and treatment approaches for adolescent and pre-adolescent psychiatric cases derived from clinical experience combined with information from the relevant journals. This book is organized into three parts encompassing 19 …
We Sang and Whistled Then
The Glory Years of the American Popular Song
Av John H Evans
E-bok, 2021
67 kr
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There is a magic to music-a feeling created that removes one from the humdrum constraints of everyday life to a wonderful make-believe world where, as famous lyricist E. Y. (Yip) Harburg put it in 'Over the Rainbow', troubles melt like lemon drops and dreams really do come true. In this book, you …
We Sang and Whistled Then
The Glory Years of the American Popular Song
Av John H Evans
Häftad, 2021
233 kr
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We Sang and Whistled Then
The Glory Years of the American Popular Song
Av John H Evans
Inbunden, 2021
451 kr
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Ornamental Turning
A Work of Practical Instruction in the Above Art ; With Numerous Engravings and Autotype Plates
Häftad, 1993
310 kr
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