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  • The Art of Flourishing

    Conversations on Disability

    Edited by Liz Bowen, Joel Michael Reynolds, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Erik Parens ...
    Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation, experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing, and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise is not a niche form of knowledge, but one that speaks to a fundamental question about how we should live together--and even thrive together--amid the vast landscape of human difference. In pieces ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Shaping Our Selves

    On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking

    by Erik Parens ...
    When bioethicists debate the use of technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are, ultimately, debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or farther from such happiness. The positions that participants adopt in debates regarding such ancient ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Surgically Shaping Children

    Technology, Ethics, and the Pursuit of Normality

    Edited by Erik Parens ...
    Winner of an Honorable Mention in the Clinical Medicine category of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards given by the Association of American PublishersAt a time when medical technologies make it ever easier to enhance our minds and bodies, a debate has arisen about whether such efforts promote a process of "normalization," which makes it ever harder to tolerate the natural anatomical ... Read more

    $25.39 USD

  • Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing

    Edited by Erik Parens, Josephine Johnston ...
    International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology. This technology, called clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats or CRISPR-Cas9, can alter any DNA, including DNA in embryos, meaning that changes can be passed to the offspring of the person that embryo becomes. Should we use ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing

    Narrated by Wendy Tremont King, Chris Sorensen ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 51 min

    International uproar followed the recent announcement of the birth of twin girls whose genomes had been edited with a breakthrough DNA editing-technology. This technology, called clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats or CRISPR-Cas9, can alter any DNA.The potential uses of CRISPR-Cas9 and other gene editing technologies are unprecedented in human history. By using these ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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  • Barriers and Belonging

    Personal Narratives of Disability

    Edited by Michelle Jarman, Leila Monaghan, Alison Quaggin Harkin ...
    What is the direct impact that disability studies has on the lives of disabled people today? The editors and contributors to this essential anthology, Barriers and Belonging, provide thirty-seven personal narratives thatexplore what it means to be disabled and why the field of disability studies matters.The editors frame the volume by introducing foundational themes of disability studies. They ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Against Empathy

    The Case for Rational Compassion

    by Paul Bloom ...
    “Like a tough-to-crack case against an idea that most of us have long known is key to repairing the world… will legitimately change how you think about the world and your own sense of morality.” —New York MagazineNew York Post Best Book of the YearWe often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, ... Read more

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  • Narrative Medicine

    Honoring the Stories of Illness

    by Rita Charon ...
    Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, ... Read more

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  • Our Posthuman Future

    Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    In 1989, Francis Fukuyama made his now-famous pronouncement that because "the major alternatives to liberal democracy had exhausted themselves," history as we knew it had reached its end. Ten years later, he revised his argument: we hadn't reached the end of history, he wrote, because we hadn't yet reached the end of science. Arguing that our greatest advances still to come will be in the life ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes

    Science-Based Strategies for Better Parenting--from Tots to Teens

    by Melinda Wenner Moyer ...
    How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes is a clear, actionable, sometimes humorous (but always science-based) guide for parents on how to shape their kids into honest, kind, generous, confident, independent, and resilient people...who just might save the world one day.As an award-winning science journalist, Melinda Wenner Moyer was regularly asked to investigate and address all kinds of parenting ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Genesis of Gender

    A Christian Theory

    by Abigail Favale ...
    The question of gender—who we are as men and women—has never been more pressing, or more misunderstood.Weaving personal experience with expert knowledge, Dr. Abigail Favale provides an in-depth yet accessible account of the gender paradigm: a framework for understanding reality and identity that has recently risen to prominence. Favale traces the genealogy of gender to its origins in feminism and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Importance of Being Little

    What Young Children Really Need from Grownups

    by Erika Christakis ...
    **“Christakis . . . expertly weaves academic research, personal experience and anecdotal evidence into her book . . . a bracing and convincing case that early education has reached a point of crisis . . . her book is a rare thing: a serious work of research that also happens to be well-written and personal . . . engaging and important.”--Washington Post"What kids need from grown-ups (but aren't ... Read more

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