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23 produkter
Genetic Justice
DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties
Av Sheldon Krimsky, Tania Simoncelli
Inbunden, 2010
1382 kr
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National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have in some cases expanded to include people merely arrested, regardless of whether they've been charged or convicted of a …
Genetic Justice
DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties
Av Sheldon Krimsky, Tania Simoncelli
Häftad, 2012
351 kr
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National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have in some cases expanded to include people merely arrested, regardless of whether they've been charged or convicted of a …
Race and the Genetic Revolution
Science, Myth, and Culture
Av Sheldon Krimsky, Kathleen Sloan
Häftad, 2011
334 kr
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Do advances in genomic biology create a scientific rationale for long-discredited racial categories? Leading scholars in law, medicine, biology, sociology, history, anthropology, and psychology examine the impact of modern genetics on the concept of race. Contributors trace the interplay between …
Stem Cell Dialogues
A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers
Inbunden, 2015
952 kr
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Stem cells and the emerging field of regenerative medicine are at the frontiers of modern medicine. These areas of scientific inquiry suggest that in the future, damaged tissue and organs might be repaired through personalized cell therapy as easily as the body repairs itself, revolutionizing the …
Stem Cell Dialogues
A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers
Häftad, 2017
239 kr
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Stem cells and the emerging field of regenerative medicine are at the frontiers of modern medicine. These areas of scientific inquiry suggest that in the future, damaged tissue and organs might be repaired through personalized cell therapy as easily as the body repairs itself, revolutionizing the …
Genetic Justice
DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties
Av Tania Simoncelli, Sheldon Krimsky
E-bok, 2010
530 kr
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National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have in some cases expanded to include people merely arrested, regardless of whether they''ve been charged or convicted of a …
Race and the Genetic Revolution
Science, Myth, and Culture
Av Kathleen Sloan, Sheldon Krimsky
E-bok, 2011
503 kr
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Do advances in genomic biology create a scientific rationale for long-discredited racial categories? Leading scholars in law, medicine, biology, sociology, history, anthropology, and psychology examine the impact of modern genetics on the concept of race. Contributors trace the interplay between …
Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment
Science, Policy, and Social Issues
Av Sheldon Krimsky, Roger Wrubel P
Häftad, 1996
400 kr
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Probing the profitable new science of creating--and altering--life forms"Extraordinarily well documented . . . remarkably clear. This isthe most comprehensive coverage of these issues to date. It will be requiredreading for some time." -- Lawrence Busch, Michigan State University"Krimsky and Wrubel …
GMOs Decoded
E-bok, 2019
301 kr
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The debate over genetically modified organisms: health and safety concerns, environmental impact, and scientific opinions. Since they were introduced to the market in the late 1990s, GMOs (genetically modified organisms, including genetically modified crops), have been subject to a barrage of …
Biotechnics and Society
The Rise of Industrial Genetics
Inbunden, 1991
1070 kr
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Impacts of technological change have historically been assessed only after the passage of a significant period of time. It is then that historians recreate the decisions that were made, sort out the influencing factors, and debate in hindsight the options that were available at the time. Sheldon …
Biotechnics and Society
The Rise of Industrial Genetics
Häftad, 1991
503 kr
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Impacts of technological change have historically been assessed only after the passage of a significant period of time. It is then that historians recreate the decisions that were made, sort out the influencing factors, and debate in hindsight the options that were available at the time. Sheldon …
Social Theories of Risk
Av Sheldon Krimsky, Dominic Golding
Inbunden, 1992
1070 kr
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The social science approach to risk has matured over the past two decades, with distinct paradigms developing in disciplines such as anthropology, economics, geography, psychology, and sociology. Social Theories of Risk traces the intellectual origins and histories of twelve of the established and …
Social Theories of Risk
Av Sheldon Krimsky, Dominic Golding
Häftad, 1992
630 kr
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The social science approach to risk has matured over the past two decades, with distinct paradigms developing in disciplines such as anthropology, economics, geography, psychology, and sociology. Social Theories of Risk traces the intellectual origins and histories of twelve of the established and …
Genetic Explanations
Sense and Nonsense
Av Sheldon Krimsky, Jeremy Gruber
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer’s, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a few scientific studies, and some in the biotechnology industry who should know better. Sheldon …
Hormonal Chaos
The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis
Häftad, 2003
468 kr
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In Hormonal Chaos, Sheldon Krimsky traces the emergence of an unorthodox hypothesis that casts new suspicions on a broad range of modern industrial chemicals. At the heart of his story is the "Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis," the assertion that a class of chemicals called "endocrine disruptors" …
Understanding DNA Ancestry
Häftad, 2021
179 kr
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DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to date. Although evidently popular, the science behind how DNA ancestry tests work is mystifying and difficult for the general public to interpret and …
Understanding DNA Ancestry
E-bok, 2021
208 kr
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DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to date. Although evidently popular, the science behind how DNA ancestry tests work is mystifying and difficult for the general public to interpret and …
Conflicts of Interest in Science
How Corporate-Funded Academic Research Can Threaten Public Health
E-bok, 2019
319 kr
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30+ Years of Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Corporate Ties and Vested Interests that Influence Scientific Research For over 500 years, groups and organizations with political, economic, and personal interests have successfully exercised influence on the pursuit of scientific inquiry and knowledge. …
GMO Deception
What You Need to Know about the Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families and Our Environment at Risk
Av Jeremy Gruber, Sheldon Krimsky
E-bok, 2014
173 kr
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Seventy-five percent of processed foods on supermarket shelves—from soda to soup, crackers to condiments—contain genetically engineered ingredients. The long-term effects of these foods on human health and ecology are still unknown, and public concern has been steadily intensifying. This new book …
Biotechnology in Our Lives
What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personalized Medicine, and Much More
Av Sheldon Krimsky, Jeremy Gruber
E-bok, 2013
239 kr
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For a quarter of a century, the Council for Responsible Genetics has provided a unique historical lens into the modern history, science, ethics, and politics of genetic technologies. Since 1983 the Council has had leading scientists, activists, science writers, and public health advocates …
Race and the Genetic Revolution
Science, Myth, and Culture
Av Sheldon Krimsky, Kathleen Sloan
Inbunden, 2011
982 kr
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Do advances in genomic biology create a scientific rationale for long-discredited racial categories? Leading scholars in law, medicine, biology, sociology, history, anthropology, and psychology examine the impact of modern genetics on the concept of race. Contributors trace the interplay between …
Understanding DNA Ancestry
Inbunden, 2021
691 kr
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DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to date. Although evidently popular, the science behind how DNA ancestry tests work is mystifying and difficult for the general public to interpret and …
