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E-Cigarettes and the Comparative Politics of Harm Reduction
This open access book offers the first in-depth study of the history and current debates surrounding electronic cigarettes comparing the UK, US and Australia. Since their introduction, e-cigarettes have been the subject of much public, media and regulatory attention, with discussion centring on whether these devices encourage or discourage smoking. This study delves into the history of policyma…
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- 978-3-031-23658-7
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- XIV, 144
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Aging Well : Solutions to the Most Pressing Global Challenges of Aging
This open access book outlines the challenges of supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults around the world and offers examples of solutions designed by stakeholders, healthcare providers, and public, private and nonprofit organizations in the United States. The solutions presented address challenges including: providing person-centered long-term care, making palliative care accessibl…
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- 9789811321641
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- XVII, 218 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Precision Oncology and Cancer Biomarkers: Issues at Stake and Matters of Concern
This open access book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around precision oncology. Each chapter addresses the experiences, concerns and issues at stake for people who work in settings where precision oncology is practiced, enacted, imagined or discussed. It subsequently discusses and analyses bioethical dilemmas, scientific c…
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- Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology
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- XIV, 281
Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance
This open access book charts how South Africa’s gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and the risks associated with mining. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa was the world’s largest producer of gold. Although the country enjoyed a reputation for leading the world in occupational health legislation, the mining companies developed a syste…
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- 978-981-19-8327-6
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- XIII, 459
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Kantianism for Animals
This open access book revises Kant’s ethical thought in one of its most notorious respects: its exclusion of animals from moral consideration. The book gives readers in animal ethics an accessible introduction to Kant’s views on our duties to others, and his view that we have only ‘indirect’ duties regarding animals. It then investigates how one would have to depart from Kant in order t…
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- 978-3-031-01930-2
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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- XXI, 245
Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings until the 1960s. It discusses the ethical principles that inspired the movement and the socio-political background that explains its rise and fall. Opposition to vivisection began when medical practitioners complained…
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- 978-1-137-55697-4
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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- XXI, 217
Case Studies in Biocultural Diversity from Southeast Asia
This open access book demonstrates the linkages between local languages, traditional knowledge, and biodiversity at the landscape level in Asia, providing a fresh approach to discussions on Asia’s biocultural diversity. The book carries forward earlier analyses but importantly focuses on ‘traditional ecological calendars,’ ‘folk medicine,’ and ‘folk names’ in the context of the vi…
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- 978-981-16-6719-0
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Women and Reproductive Technologies : The Socio-Economic Development of Techn…
A sociological and historical study of the development of reproductive technologies, this book focuses on key technological developments through a biomedicalization lens with special attention to gender. Using in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a hub, it critically examines the main areas of related socio-technical developments: reproductive science, birth control, animal husbandry, genetics and r…
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- 9780429467646
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Longer-Term Psychiatric Inpatient Care for Adolescents
Philip Hazell is Conjoint Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with The University of Sydney and a consultant psychiatrist with the Sydney Local Health District. In former roles as director of child and adolescent mental health services he was responsible for the commissioning of two psychiatric inpatient units for adolescents.
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- 978-981-19-1950-3
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- XIX, 188
The Pathway to Publishing: A Guide to Quantitative Writing in the Health Scie…
Writing manuscripts is central to the advance of scientific knowledge. For an early career aspiring scientist, writing first author manuscripts is an opportunity to develop critical skills and to credential their expertise. Writing manuscripts, however, is difficult, doubly so for scientists who use English as a second language. Many science students intentionally avoid a writing-intensive curr…
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- 978-3-030-98175-4
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- XIII, 186
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