1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155329303321

Autore

Peccerillo Angelo

Titolo

Cenozoic Volcanism in the Tyrrhenian Sea Region / / by Angelo Peccerillo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

9783319424910

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 399 p. 170 illus., 169 illus. in color.)

Collana

Advances in Volcanology, An Official Book Series of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior, , 2364-3277

Disciplina

551.21

Soggetti

Geochemistry

Geology

Natural disasters

Natural Hazards

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Magmatism in the Tyrrhenian Sea Region: An Introductory Overview -- The Tuscany Province -- The Intra-Apennine Province -- The Roman Province -- The Ernici-Roccamonfina Province -- The Pontine Islands.

Sommario/riassunto

This is an updated edition of the book by the same author: "Plio-Quaternary volcanism in Italy - Petrology, geochemistry, geodynamics," published in 2005 by Springer. This edition has the same structure as the previous publication, with a general introduction; various chapters dedicated to different volcanic provinces in Italy; and a final chapter on the relationships between magmatism and geodynamics. It includes information that has become available in the last ten years, and new chapters have been added offering detailed discussions of the Oligo-Miocene orogenic volcanism on Sardinia and of some small outcrops of fragmented volcanic rocks occurring in several places of the Apennines. This new edition now covers the entire Tyrrhenian Sea magmatism of the last 40 Ma. Lastly, it includes two appendices: Appendix 1 reports on a comparison between the Tyrrhenian Sea volcanism and the partially coeval magmatism along the Alps and adjoining areas and has the objective of highlighting similarities and difference that can tell us



much on geodynamics and magmatism between the converging plates of Europe and Africa. Appendix 2 s an update of the 2005 edition appendix and deals with classification of orogenic rocks with special emphasis on potassic alkaline volcanics.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910172213003321

Autore

Rose Nikolas S

Titolo

Politics of life itself : biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century / / Nikolas Rose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2007

ISBN

9781400827503

1400827507

9781282458291

1282458299

9786612458293

6612458291

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 pages)

Collana

Information series

Disciplina

174/.957

Soggetti

Bioethics

Medical innovations - Social aspects

Bioethique

Medecine - Innovations - Aspect social

Genomica

Politieke aspecten

Ethische aspecten

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 (p. [305]-339) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Biopolitics in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 2. Politics and Life -- Chapter 3. An Emergent Form of Life? -- Chapter 4. At Genetic Risk -- Chapter 5. Biological Citizens -- Chapter 6. Race in the Age of Genomic Medicine -- Chapter 7. Neurochemical



Selves -- Chapter 8. The Biology of Control -- Afterword. Somatic Ethics and the Spirit of Biocapital -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of Life Itself offers a much-needed examination of recent developments in the life sciences and biomedicine that have led to the widespread politicization of medicine, human life, and biotechnology. Avoiding the hype of popular science and the pessimism of most social science, Nikolas Rose analyzes contemporary molecular biopolitics, examining developments in genomics, neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychopharmacology and the ways they have affected racial politics, crime control, and psychiatry. Rose analyzes the transformation of biomedicine from the practice of healing to the government of life; the new emphasis on treating disease susceptibilities rather than disease; the shift in our understanding of the patient; the emergence of new forms of medical activism; the rise of biocapital; and the mutations in biopower. He concludes that these developments have profound consequences for who we think we are, and who we want to be.