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  • Synthetic Biology and the Question of Public Participation

    Governance and Ethics in Dealing with Emerging Technologies

    by Stephanie Siewert, Katharina Kieslich, Matthias Braun, Peter Dabrock ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book considers the relationship between governance and participation, and the ways participation has been understood, framed and applied in the context of synthetic biology (SB) governance approaches. Based on fundamental questions about the scope, purpose, and responsibilities assigned to public participation activities, the authors conducted an literature review of policy reports and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Drugs for Life

    How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health

    by Joseph Dumit ...
    Series series Experimental futures
    Every year the average number of prescriptions purchased by Americans increases, as do healthcare expenditures, which are projected to reach one-fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product by 2020. In Drugs for Life, Joseph Dumit considers how our burgeoning consumption of medicine and cost of healthcare not only came to be, but also came to be taken for granted. For several years, Dumit attended ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Male Pill

    A Biography of a Technology in the Making

    by Nelly Oudshoorn ...
    The Male Pill is the first book to reveal the history of hormonal contraceptives for men. Nelly Oudshoorn explains why it is that, although the technical feasibility of male contraceptives was demonstrated as early as the 1970s, there is, to date, no male pill. Ever since the idea of hormonal contraceptives for men was introduced, scientists, feminists, journalists, and pharmaceutical ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • When Experiments Travel

    Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects

    by Adriana Petryna ...
    The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. Our hope for medical progress increasingly depends on the willingness of the world's poor to participate in clinical drug trials. While these experiments often provide those in need with vital and previously ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Digital Health

    Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    Series series Critical Approaches to Health
    The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response to the techno-utopian and entrepreneurial vision of the digital health phenomenon. Deborah Lupton, internationally renowned for her scholarship on the sociocultural and political aspects of medicine and health as ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • New Genetics, New Social Formations

    Edited by Peter Glasner, Paul Atkinson, Helen Greenslade ...
    Series series Genetics and Society
    New genetic technologies cut across a range of public regulatory domains and private lifeworlds, often appearing to generate an institutional void in response to the complex challenges they pose. As a result, a number of new social formations are being developed to legitimate public engagement and avoid the perceived democratic deficit that may result. Papers in this volume discuss a variety of ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology

    Edited by Massimiano Bucchi, Brian Trench ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Communicating science and technology is a high priority of many research and policy institutions, a concern of many other private and public bodies, and an established subject of training and education. In the past few decades, the field has developed and expanded significantly, both in terms of professional practice, and in terms of research and reflection. At the same time, particularly in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Emerging Threats of Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology

    Addressing Security and Resilience Issues

    Edited by Benjamin D. Trump, Marie-Valentine Florin, Edward Perkins, Igor Linkov ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Synthetic biology is a field of biotechnology that is rapidly growing in various applications, such as in medicine, environmental sustainability, and energy production. However these technologies also have unforeseen risks and applications to humans and the environment.This open access book presents discussions on risks and mitigation strategies for these technologies including biosecurity, or the ... Read more

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  • The Global Biopolitics of the IUD

    How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies

    by Chikako Takeshita ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.The intrauterine device (IUD) is used by 150 million women around the world. It is the second most prevalent method of female fertility control in the global South and the third most prevalent in the global North. Over its five decades of use ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Medical Data Donation

    Edited by Jenny Krutzinna, Luciano Floridi ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This open access book presents an ethical approach to utilizing personal medical data. It features essays that combine academic argument with practical application of ethical principles. The contributors are experts in ethics and law. They address the challenges in the re-use of medical data of the deceased on a voluntary basis. This pioneering study looks at the many factors involved when ... Read more

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  • The dynamics of patient organizations in Europe

    Edited by Madeleine Akrich, João Nunes, Florence Paterson, Vololona Rabeharisoa ...
    Series series Sciences sociales
    Patient organizations today play a major role in the scientific, economic and political arenas. They have become the quasi-obliged partners of researchers, industrialists and political authorities. This book investigates this quite recent configuration by offering an in-depth exploration of three thematic issues: To what social and political stakes are patient organizations confronted as regards ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Responsible Conduct of Research

    by Adil E. Shamoo, David B. Resnik ...
    Recent scandals and controversies, such as data fabrication in federally funded science, data manipulation and distortion in private industry, and human embryonic stem cell research, illustrate the importance of ethics in science. Responsible Conduct of Research, now in a completely updated second edition, provides an introduction to the social, ethical, and legal issues facing scientists today. ... Read more

    $21.89 USD