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The human embryonic stem cell debate : science, ethics, and public policy
Human embryonic stem cells can divide indefinitely and have the potential to develop into many types of tissue. Research on these cells is essential to one of the most intriguing medical frontiers, regenerative medicine. It also raises a host of difficult ethical issues and has sparked great public interest and controversy.This book offers a foundation for thinking about the many issues involve…
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- Basic Bioethics
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Ethics, sexual orientation, and choices about children
Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their child's sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions to learn (or change) their child's sexual orientation? Bioethicists have debated the moral implications of this still-hypothetical possibility for several decades. Some commentators fear that any scientific efforts to unde…
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- 9780262305822
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- 1 online resource (195 pages).
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Moving without a body :digital philosophy and choreographic thoughts
Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information. In Moving without a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement is translated into a numerical code by a technological system. Drawing on the radical empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and …
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- 9780262313858
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- 1 online resource (x, 179 pages) :illustrations.
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Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility :the New Language of Global B…
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 11, 2012)."'Human dignity' has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human dignity is a term--like love, hope, and justice--that is intuitively grasped but never clea…
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- 9780262305815
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 349 pages) :illustrations.
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A natural history of rape :biological bases of sexual coercion
"In this sure-to-be-controversial book, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer use evolutionary biology to explain the causes of rape and to recommend new approaches to its prevention. According to Thornhill and Palmer, evolved adaptation of some sort gives rise to rape; the main evolutionary question is whether rape is an adaptation itself or a by-product of other adaptations." "The book includes a …
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Humanity's end: Why we should reject radical enhancement
"A Bradford book."""Arguments against radical enhancement have too often in the past been characterized by irrationalism and mysticism. Nicholas Agar presents the first cogent case for the rationality of opposing radical enhancement. Moving easily between science and philosophy, he argues for a species-relative conception of valuable experiences, according to which we have a strong reason to re…
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- 9780262289122
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- 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages).
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Handling digital brains :a laboratory study of multimodal semiotic interactio…
This title is an analysis of how fMRI researchers actively involve their bodies - with hand movements in particular - in laboratory practice.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295475
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- 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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The Road to Democracy in Iran
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.
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The road to democracy in Iran /
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.
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Learning to communicate in science and engineering : Case Studies from MIT
To many science and engineering students, the task of writing may seem irrelevant to their future professional careers. At MIT, however, students discover that writing about their technical work is important not only in solving real-world problems but also in developing their professional identities. MIT puts into practice the belief that "engineers who don't write well end up working for engin…
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