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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael j hyde”
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  • The Interruption That We Are

    The Health of the Lived Body, Narrative, and Public Moral Argument

    by Michael J. Hyde ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    In a world of ever-increasing medical technology, a study of the need for wisdom, truth, and public moral argumentIn this provocative and interdisciplinary work, Michael J. Hyde develops a philosophy of communication ethics in which the practice of rhetoric plays a fundamental role in promoting and maintaining the health of our personal and communal existence. He examines how the force of ... Read more

    $39.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility

    Edited by Nancy M.P. King, Michael J Hyde ...
    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility explores the role of democratically oriented argument in promoting public understanding and discussion of the benefits and burdens of biotechnological progress.The contributors examine moral and policy controversies surrounding biomedical technologies and their place in American society, beginning with an examination of discourse and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • The Gene

    An Intimate History

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerThe basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate HistoryNow includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee**’**s new book Song of the Cell!From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingen... ... Read more

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  • A Crack In Creation

    Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

    by Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg ...
    BY THE WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY | Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“A powerful mix of science and ethics . . . This book is required reading for every concerned citizen—the material it covers should be discussed in schools, colleges, and universities throughout the country.”— New York Review of BooksNot since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

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  • BioCoder #8

    July 2015

    by O'Reilly Media, Inc. ...
    BioCoder is a quarterly newsletter for DIYbio, synthetic bio, and anything related. You’ll discover:Articles about interesting projects and experiments, such as the glowing plantArticles about tools, both those you buy and those you buildVisits to DIYbio laboratoriesProfiles of key people in the communityAnnouncements of events and other items of interestSafety pointers and tips about good ... Read more

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  • Modern Prometheus

    Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9

    by Jim Kozubek ...
    Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and effective methods for editing the human genome. This opens up startling new opportunities as well as significant ethical uncertainty. Tracing events across a fifty-year period, from the first gene splicing ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

    by Katrien Devolder ...
    Series series Issues in Biomedical Ethics
    Embryonic stem cell research holds unique promise for developing therapies for currently incurable diseases and conditions, and for important biomedical research. However, the process through which embryonic stem cells are obtained involves the destruction of early human embryos. Katrien Devolder focuses on the tension between the popular view that an embryo should never be deliberately harmed or ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Liminal Lives

    Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine

    by Susan Merrill Squier ...
    Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation—these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In the first study to consider the cultural impact of the medical transformation of the entire human life span, Susan Merrill Squier argues that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction

    by Henry T. Greely ...
    Within twenty, maybe forty, years most people in developed countries will stop having sex for the purpose of reproduction. Instead, prospective parents will be told as much as they wish to know about the genetic makeup of dozens of embryos, and they will pick one or two for implantation, gestation, and birth. And it will be safe, lawful, and free. In this work of prophetic scholarship, Henry T. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Bioterror and Biowarfare

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Malcolm R. Dando ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    In an age where anthrax can be produced in a garage and multilateral agreements among nations seem ever harder to reach, the threat of biowarfare could rapidly spiral out of control. In this authoritative guide, international expert Malcolm Dando inspects the evidence rarely made available to the public, providing a comprehensive account of what biological weapons are and their prevalence ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Physician-Assisted Death

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by L.W. Sumner ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    The issue of physician-assisted death is now firmly on the American public agenda. Already legal in five states, it is the subject of intense public opinion battles across the country. Driven by an increasingly aging population, and a baby boom generation just starting to enter its senior years, the issue is not going to go away anytime soon. In Physician-Assisted Death, L.W. Sumner equips readers ... Read more

    $10.49 USD