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“maya goldenberg”

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  • Vaccine Hesitancy

    Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science

    by Maya Goldenberg ...
    Series series
    Winner, 2022 PSA Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science AwardThe public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. The controversy over childhood immunization intensified in 1998, when Dr. Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine to autism. Although Wakefield’s findings were later ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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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

  • Why Have Children?

    The Ethical Debate

    by Christine Overall ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified—and if so, how.In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Body

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Shilling ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or culture. Since the mid-1980s, however, there has been a rising awareness of how our bodies, and our perception of them, are influenced by the social, cultural and material contexts in which humans live. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Our Posthuman Future

    Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    Is a baby whose personality has been chosen from a gene supermarket still a human? If we choose what we create what happens to morality? Is this the end of human nature? The dramatic advances in DNA technology over the last few years are the stuff of science fiction. It is now not only possible to clone human beings it is happening. For the first time since the creation of the earth four billion ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Trans Bodies, Trans Selves

    A Resource by and for Transgender Communities

    Edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth ...
    There is no one way to be transgender. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a revolutionary resource--a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender and gender expansive authors. Inspired by Our Bodies, Ourselves, the classic and powerful compendium written by and for cisgender women, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is widely accessible to the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edited by Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Read more

    $44.00 USD

  • Gender

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Laura Erickson-Schroth, Benjamin Davis ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The term "gender" was first distinguished from "sex" in the 1950s when psychologists began to discuss the idea of "gender roles," behaviors and responsibilities given to people by a society rather than flowing from their biology. Since then, leaders across disciplines have sought to better understand the roles of biology, psychology, and culture on gender. New language has emerged alongside rich ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Thieves of Virtue

    When Bioethics Stole Medicine

    by Tom Koch ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    An argument against the “lifeboat ethic” of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring.Bioethics emerged in the 1960s from a conviction that physicians and researchers needed the guidance of philosophers in handling the issues raised by technological advances in medicine. It blossomed as a response to the perceived doctor-knows-best ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    by Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock ...
    An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in ... Read more

    $68.50 USD

  • Seizing the Means of Reproduction

    Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience

    by M. Murphy ...
    Series series Experimental futures
    In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, M. Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Murphy concentrates on the technoscientific means—the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Medicine as Culture

    Illness, Disease and the Body

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    Lupton′s newest edition of Medicine as Culture is more relevant than ever.Trudy Rudge, Professor of Nursing, University of SydneyA welcome update of a text that has become a mainstay of the medical sociologist′s library.Alan Radley, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology, Loughborough UniversityMedicine as Culture introduces students to a broad range of cross-disciplinary theoretical perspectives ... Read more

    $67.49 USD