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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the legal concept of brain death. In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how …
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- 978-1-137-58328-4
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victori…
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- 978-3-030-74443-4
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- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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- XXII, 555
The Ethics of Vaccination
This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from the perspective of philosophy and public health ethics. It addresses the issue of what it means for a collective to be morally responsible for the realisation of herd immunity and what the implications of collective responsibility are for individual and institutional respon…
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- 978-3-030-02068-2
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- Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy
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- 2946-2746
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
Simplex Society: How to Humanize
This open access book provides thought-provoking anthropology grounded in comparative ethnography. The theory captures the current historical moment, the long-term trends that led us here, and the prospects for a humane future. The experience of complexity characterizing a globalized information society triggers simplexes. These unidimensional responses instrumental in bringing about a predicta…
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- 978-3-031-41115-1
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- X, 320
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Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged political issue over cow protection in India, intellectual space must be made to bring the wealth of Indian traditional ethical discourse to bear on t…
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- 978-3-030-28408-4
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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- XXX, 269
A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty
This book is open access under a CCBY license. This book investigates child poverty from a philosophical perspective. It identifies the injustices of child poverty, relates them to the well-being of children, and discusses who has a moral responsibility to secure social justice for children.
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- 978-1-137-42602-4
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- VII, 193
Cyborgs in Latin America
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org . Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity.
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- 978-0-230-10977-3
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- XI, 212
World Class Universities
This open access book focuses on the dimensions of the discourse of 'The World Class University', its alleged characteristics, and its policy expressions. It offers a broad overview of the historical background and current trajectory of the world-class-university construct. It also deepens the theoretical discussion, and points a way forward out of present impasses resulting from the pervasive …
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- 978-981-15-7598-3
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- Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
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- X, 289
Responsible Innovation 1
This book addresses the methodological issues involved in responsible innovation and provides an overview of recent applications of multidisciplinary research. Responsible innovation involves research into the ethical and societal aspects of new technologies (e.g. ICT, nanotechnology, biotechnology and brain sciences) and of changes in technological systems (e.g. energy, transport, agriculture …
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- 978-94-017-8956-1
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- 26 b/w illustrations
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- XXIII, 392
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