1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143822803321

Autore

Wormald Patrick

Titolo

The times of Bede [[electronic resource] ] : studies in early English Christian society and its historian / / Patrick Wormald ; edited by Stephen Baxter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

1-281-30940-0

9786611309404

0-470-69337-1

0-470-69265-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BaxterStephen David <1969->

Disciplina

274.2/02

942.015

Soggetti

Monasticism and religious orders - Great Britain - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) - England

Learning and scholarship - History - Medieval, 500-1500

Historiography - Great Britain - History - To 1500

Christian saints - Great Britain

Great Britain History Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 Historiography

Great Britain Church history 449-1066

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bede; Contents; Foreword; Editorial Note; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I An Early Christian Culture and its Critic; 1 Bede and Benedict Biscop; 2 Bede,Beowulf and the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxon Aristocracy; 3 Bede,the Bretwaldas and the Origins of the Gens Anglorum; 4 Bede and the Conversion of England:The Charter Evidence; Part II The Impact of Bede 's Critique; 5 Æthelwold and his Continental Counterparts:Contact, Comparison,Contrast; 6 The Venerable Bede and the 'Church of the English '; 7 How do we know so much about Anglo-Saxon Deerhurst?

8 Corruption,Decline and the 'Real World 'of the early English Church: Aristocrats as AbbotsAppendix Hilda,Saint and Scholar (614 -680);



Index

Sommario/riassunto

Written by the late Patrick Wormald, one of the leading authorities on Bede's life and work over a 30-year period, this book is a collection of studies on Bede and early English Christian society.A collection of studies on Bede, the greatest historian of the English Middle Ages, and the early English church.Integrates the religious, intellectual, political and social history of the English in their first Christian centuries.Looks at how Bede and other writers charted the establishment of a Christian community within a warrior society.Features the first map of all known or l

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783706603321

Titolo

Genetic databases : socio-ethical issues in the collection and use of DNA / / edited by Richard Tutton and Oonagh Corrigan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-37334-1

0-203-35506-7

1-134-37335-X

1-280-05823-4

9786610058235

0-203-57792-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TuttonRichard <1972->

CorriganOonagh <1957->

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

DNA

Nucleotide sequence

Amino acid sequence

Genetics - Data processing

Databases - Citizen participation

Bioinformatics

Medical ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : public participation in genetic databases / Richard Tutton and Oonagh Corrigan -- Person, property and gift : exploring languages of tissue donation to biomedical research / Richard Tutton -- Blood donation for genetic research : what can we learn from donors' narratives? / Helen Busby -- Levels and styles of participation in genetic databases : a case study of the North Cumbria Community Genetics Project / Erica Haimes and Michael Whong-Barr -- Informed consent : the contradictory ethical safeguards in pharmacogenetics / Oonagh Corrigan -- Ambiguous gifts : public anxiety, informed consent and biobanks / Klaus Hoeyer -- Abandoning informed consent : the case of genetic research in population collections / Jane Kaye -- Children's participation in genetic epidemiology : consent and control / Emma Williamson ... [et al.] -- 'Public consent' or 'scientific citizenship'? What counts as public participation in population-based DNA collections? / Sue Weldon -- Tissue collection and the pharmaceutical industry : investigating corporate biobanks / Graham Lewis.

Sommario/riassunto

Genetic Databases offers a timely analysis of the underlying tensions, contradictions and limitations of the current regulatory frameworks for, and policy debates about, genetic databases. Drawing on original empirical research and theoretical debates in the fields of sociology, anthropology and legal studies, the contributors to this book challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of informed consent and explore the relationship between personal privacy and the public good. They also consider the multiple meanings attached to human tissue and the role of public consultations and commercia