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Human subjects research regulation : perspectives on the future
The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation and the Tuskegee syphilis study. This framework, combining elements of paternalism with efforts to preserve individual autonomy, has remained fundamentally unchanged for decades. Yet, as this book documents, it has significant flaws. Invigorated by the U.S…
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- 9780262320825
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- 1 online resource (ix, 373 pages).
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Robot sex social and ethical implications
Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341981
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- 1 online resource (vi, 314 pages) :illustrations
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Why only us language and evolution
"We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language--'the language faculty'--raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This boo…
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- 9780262333351
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- 1 online resource (215 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds
The author shows how game theory can illuminate the rational choices made by characters in texts ranging from the Bible to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' and can explicate strategic questions in law, history, and philosophy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295932
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- 1 online resource (xi, 319 pages) :illustrations
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Human robotics :neuromechanics and motor control
This book proposes a transdisciplinary approach to investigating human motor control that synthesizes musculoskeletal biomechanics and neural control. The authors argue that this integrated approach -- which uses the framework of robotics to understand sensorimotor control problems -- offers a more complete and accurate description than either a purely neural computational approach or a purely …
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- 9780262314817
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- 1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) :illustrations
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Urgency in the Anthropocene
Is this the Anthropocene? The age in which humans have become a geological force, leaving indelible signs of their activities on the earth. The narrative of the Anthropocene so far is characterized by extremes, emergencies, and exceptions-a tale of apocalypse by our own hands. The sense of ongoing crisis emboldens policy and governance responses that challenge established systems of sovereignty…
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- 9780262348898
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- 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages)
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Positive computing : technology for wellbeing and human potential
"On the eve of Google's IPO in 2004, Larry Page and Sergey Brin vowed not to be evil. Today, a growing number of technologists would go further, trying to ensure that their work actively improves people's lives. Technology, so pervasive and ubiquitous, has the capacity to increase stress and suffering; but it also has the less-heralded potential to improve the well-being of individuals, society…
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- 0262325683
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- 1 online resource (x, 288 pages).
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Adversarial Design
An exploration of the political qualities of technology design, as seen in projects that span art, computer science, and consumer products.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301350
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Media Art and the Urban Environment: Engendering Public Engagement with Urban…
This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing and connecting within the urban setting. The book describes how technology can be exploited in order to create artworks that transcend the technology’s original purpose, thus expanding th…
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- 978-3-319-15152-6
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- XIV, 299
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- Future City (FUCI, volume 5)
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Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance
This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people’s sexual lives, access to citizenship, and struggles for livelihood. Despite the industry’s persistent insis…
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- 9780203868348
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- p. 240
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