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Television and the Genetic Imaginary
Av Sofia Bull
Inbunden, 2019
1467 kr
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This book examines the complex ways in which television articulates ideas about DNA in the early 21st century. Considering television’s distinct aesthetic and narrative forms, as well as its specific cultural roles, it identifies TV as a key site for the genetic imaginary. The book addresses the …
Surrogacy and the Reproduction of Normative Family on TV
Av Lulu Le Vay
Inbunden, 2019
850 kr
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This book examines the proliferation of surrogacy storylines on TV, exploring themes of infertility, motherhood, parenting and family. It investigates how, despite reproductive technologies’ ability to flex contours of family, the shows’ narratives work to uphold the white, heterosexual, …
Surrogacy and the Reproduction of Normative Family on TV
Av Lulu Le Vay
Häftad, 2020
569 kr
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This book examines the proliferation of surrogacy storylines on TV, exploring themes of infertility, motherhood, parenting and family. It investigates how, despite reproductive technologies’ ability to flex contours of family, the shows’ narratives work to uphold the white, heterosexual, …
BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age of Attenborough
Häftad, 2019
218 kr
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This book explores the history of wildlife television in post-war Britain. It revolves around the role of David Attenborough, whose career as a broadcaster and natural history filmmaker has shaped British wildlife television. The book discusses aspects of Attenborough’s professional biography and …
Posthuman Biopolitics
The Science Fiction of Joan Slonczewski
Av Bruce Clarke
Inbunden, 2020
1202 kr
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This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski. Posthuman Biopolitics consolidates the scholarly literature on Slonczewski’s fiction and demonstrates fruitful lines of engagement for the critical, cultural, and theoretical …
Posthuman Biopolitics
The Science Fiction of Joan Slonczewski
Av Bruce Clarke
Häftad, 2021
1202 kr
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This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski. Posthuman Biopolitics consolidates the scholarly literature on Slonczewski’s fiction and demonstrates fruitful lines of engagement for the critical, cultural, and theoretical …
Mind Reading as a Cultural Practice
Av Laurens Schlicht, Carla Seemann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
551 kr
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This book provides a genealogical perspective on various forms of mind reading in different settings. We understand mind reading in a broad sense as the twentieth-century attempt to generate knowledge of what people held in their minds – with a focus on scientifically-based governmental practices. …
Mind Reading as a Cultural Practice
Av Laurens Schlicht, Carla Seemann m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
551 kr
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This book provides a genealogical perspective on various forms of mind reading in different settings. We understand mind reading in a broad sense as the twentieth-century attempt to generate knowledge of what people held in their minds – with a focus on scientifically-based governmental practices. …
Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin
Science, Fiction, Ethics
Av Christopher L. Robinson, Sarah Bouttier m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
844 kr
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The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin explores how Le Guin’s fiction and essays have built a speculative ethical practice engaging indigenous knowledge and feminism, while crafting utopias in which human and other-than-human life forms enter into new relations. Her work also delineates new ways of …
Evolution on British Television and Radio
Transmissions and Transmutations
Inbunden, 2021
1243 kr
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This book charts the history of how biological evolution has been depicted on British television and radio, from the first radio broadcast on evolution in 1925 through to the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 2009. Going beyond science documentaries, the chapters deal …
Evolution on British Television and Radio
Transmissions and Transmutations
Häftad, 2022
1243 kr
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This book charts the history of how biological evolution has been depicted on British television and radio, from the first radio broadcast on evolution in 1925 through to the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 2009. Going beyond science documentaries, the chapters deal …
(Un)doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture
Representation, Disability, Culture
Av Bianca C. Frazer, Heather R. Walker
Inbunden, 2022
1467 kr
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While the 21st century insulin crisis provokes protest and political dialogue, public conception of diabetes remain firmly unchanged. Popular media representations portray diabetes as a condition couched in lifestyle choices. In the groundbreaking volume (Un)doing Diabetes, authors destabilize …
(Un)doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture
Av Bianca C. Frazer, Heather R. Walker
Häftad, 2023
1467 kr
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While the 21st century insulin crisis provokes protest and political dialogue, public conception of diabetes remain firmly unchanged. Popular media representations portray diabetes as a condition couched in lifestyle choices. In the groundbreaking volume (Un)doing Diabetes, authors destabilize …
Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction
Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction
Av Sherryl Vint, Sümeyra Buran
Inbunden, 2022
1680 kr
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Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway’s influential “Cyborg Manifesto” was published. With sections exploring reproductive …
Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction
Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction
Av Sherryl Vint, Sümeyra Buran
Häftad, 2023
1680 kr
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Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway’s influential “Cyborg Manifesto” was published. With sections exploring reproductive …
Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture
Av Marcus K. Harmes, Richard Scully
Inbunden, 2023
1692 kr
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This edited volume focuses on the cultural production of knowledge in the academy as mediated or presented through film and television. This focus invites scrutiny of how the academy itself is viewed in popular culture from The Chair to Terry Pratchett's ‘Unseen University’ and Doctor Who's Time …
Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture
Av Marcus K. Harmes, Richard Scully
Häftad, 2024
1692 kr
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This edited volume focuses on the cultural production of knowledge in the academy as mediated or presented through film and television. This focus invites scrutiny of how the academy itself is viewed in popular culture from The Chair to Terry Pratchett's ‘Unseen University’ and Doctor Who's Time …
HIV/AIDS in Memory, Culture and Society
Av Alicia Castillo Villanueva, Angelos Bollas
Inbunden, 2024
1467 kr
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This volume examines the role of culture in developing social, cultural and political discourses of HIV/AIDS from a contemporary viewpoint. In doing so, the memory of HIV/AIDS is a powerful tool to examine representations of the past and connect them with future debates. This reassessment of …
HIV/AIDS in Memory, Culture and Society
Av Alicia Castillo Villanueva, Angelos Bollas
Häftad, 2025
1460 kr
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This volume examines the role of culture in developing social, cultural and political discourses of HIV/AIDS from a contemporary viewpoint. In doing so, the memory of HIV/AIDS is a powerful tool to examine representations of the past and connect them with future debates. This reassessment of …
Women Scientists in American Television Comedy
Beakers, Big Bangs and Broken Hearts
Av Karina Judd, Bridget Gaul m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
420 kr
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This book explores how women scientists are portrayed in hit American TV comedies The Big Bang Theory, Never Have I Ever, and Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist using a science communication lens. The authors illuminate how comedy, especially irony and satire, communicate complex ideas about gender and …
Women Scientists in American Television Comedy
Beakers, Big Bangs and Broken Hearts
Av Karina Judd, Bridget Gaul m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
433 kr
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This book explores how women scientists are portrayed in hit American TV comedies The Big Bang Theory, Never Have I Ever, and Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist using a science communication lens. The authors illuminate how comedy, especially irony and satire, communicate complex ideas about gender and …
Exploring Reproduction and Gender in Contemporary Feminist Speculative Fiction
Mothers Out of this World
Av Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen, Sara Martín
Inbunden, 2026
1799 kr
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This volume presents the work of a group of international academics on the topic of reproduction and motherhood in contemporary feminist speculative fiction. While many works of feminist speculative fiction specifically address topics such as reproduction and reproductive control, these are …
Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema
Precarious Identities
Av Heike Klippel, Bettina Wahrig m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1207 kr
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This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic. Poisons attract attention because they are both dangerous and hard to discover. Secretive and invisible, they are a challenging object of representation. How do science studies, …
Teaching Medicine and Medical Ethics Using Popular Culture
Häftad, 2017
343 kr
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This book demonstrates how popular culture can be successfully incorporated into medical and health science curriculums, capitalising on the opportunity fictional media presents to humanise case studies. Studies show that the vast majority of medical and nursing students watch popular medical …
Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema
Precarious Identities
Av Heike Klippel, Bettina Wahrig m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
877 kr
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This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic. Poisons attract attention because they are both dangerous and hard to discover. Secretive and invisible, they are a challenging object of representation. How do science studies, …
