In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science – serie
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21 produkter
Darwin's Pharmacy
Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere
Häftad, 2011
534 kr
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Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin’s Pharmacy shows they are by weaving the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs. Long suppressed as components of the human tool kit, …
Tracing Autism
Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience
Inbunden, 2017
1767 kr
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In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald offers an up-close account of the search for a neurological explanation of autism. As autism has gained cultural prominence with more diagnoses and more controversy, its biological causes remain elusive.Through in-depth interviews with neuroscientists, …
Tracing Autism
Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience
Häftad, 2017
590 kr
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In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald offers an up-close account of the search for a neurological explanation of autism. As autism has gained cultural prominence with more diagnoses and more controversy, its biological causes remain elusive.Through in-depth interviews with neuroscientists, …
Transparent Body
A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging
Häftad, 2005
550 kr
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From the potent properties of X rays evoked in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain to the miniaturized surgical team of the classic science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, the possibility of peering into the inner reaches of the body has engaged the twentieth-century popular and scientific imagination. …
Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves
The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England
Av Eve Keller
Häftad, 2007
550 kr
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Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves examines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions of selfhood in early modern England. At a time when medical texts first appeared in English in large numbers and …
Emergence of Genetic Rationality
Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920
Häftad, 2007
587 kr
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The emergence of genetic science has profoundly shaped how we think about biology. Indeed, it is difficult now to consider nearly any facet of human experience without first considering the gene. But this mode of understanding life is not, of course, transhistorical. Phillip Thurtle takes us back …
Emergence of Genetic Rationality
Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920
Inbunden, 2007
1819 kr
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The emergence of genetic science has profoundly shaped how we think about biology. Indeed, it is difficult now to consider nearly any facet of human experience without first considering the gene. But this mode of understanding life is not, of course, transhistorical. Phillip Thurtle takes us back …
Life as Surplus
Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era
Häftad, 2008
534 kr
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Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood …
Bits of Life
Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology
Av Anneke M. Smelik, Nina Lykke
Häftad, 2008
534 kr
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Since World War II, the biological and technological have been fusing and merging in new ways, resulting in the loss of a clear distinction between the two. This entanglement of biology with technology isn't new, but the pervasiveness of that integration is staggering, as is the speed at which the …
Bioart and the Vitality of Media
Inbunden, 2010
1819 kr
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Bioart -- art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even transform, biotechnological practice -- now receives enormous media attention. Yet despite this attention, bioart is frequently misunderstood. Bioart and …
Bioart and the Vitality of Media
Häftad, 2010
550 kr
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Bioart -- art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even transform, biotechnological practice -- now receives enormous media attention. Yet despite this attention, bioart is frequently misunderstood. Bioart and …
Affect and Artificial Intelligence
Häftad, 2010
449 kr
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In 1950, Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer pioneer, looked to the future: now that the conceptual and technical parameters for electronic brains had been established, what kind of intelligence could be built? Should machine intelligence mimic the abstract thinking …
Affect and Artificial Intelligence
Inbunden, 2010
1866 kr
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In 1950, Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer pioneer, looked to the future: now that the conceptual and technical parameters for electronic brains had been established, what kind of intelligence could be built? Should machine intelligence mimic the abstract thinking …
Darwin's Pharmacy
Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere
Inbunden, 2011
1767 kr
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Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin’s Pharmacy shows they are by weaving the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs. Long suppressed as components of the human tool kit, …
Clinic and Elsewhere
Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy
Av Todd Meyers
Inbunden, 2013
1819 kr
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Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many unknowns regarding the individual experience of substance abuse and its treatment. In recent years, …
Clinic and Elsewhere
Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy
Av Todd Meyers
Häftad, 2013
550 kr
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Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many unknowns regarding the individual experience of substance abuse and its treatment. In recent years, …
Pulse of Modernism
Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Inbunden, 2015
1866 kr
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Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of “physiological aesthetics,” which sought physiological explanations for the capacity to appreciate …
Pulse of Modernism
Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Häftad, 2016
534 kr
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Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of “physiological aesthetics,” which sought physiological explanations for the capacity to appreciate …
Bits of Life
Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology
Av Anneke M. Smelik, Nina Lykke
Inbunden, 2015
1700 kr
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Since World War II, the biological and technological have been fusing and merging in new ways, resulting in the loss of a clear distinction between the two. This entanglement of biology with technology isn't new, but the pervasiveness of that integration is staggering, as is the speed at which the …
Life as Surplus
Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era
Inbunden, 2015
1767 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, Life as Surplus is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood …
Transparent Body
A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging
Inbunden, 2015
1819 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From the potent properties of X rays evoked in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain to the miniaturized surgical team of the classic science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, the possibility of peering into the inner reaches of the body has engaged the twentieth-century popular and scientific imagination. …
