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UNINA9910450042703321 |
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Amato Joseph Anthony |
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Rethinking home [[electronic resource] ] : a case for writing local history / / Joseph A. Amato |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
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1-59734-865-1 |
9786612762611 |
0-520-93633-7 |
1-282-76261-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (263 p.) |
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Land settlement - Minnesota - Historiography |
Local history - Philosophy |
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Minnesota Civilization Historiography |
Minnesota History, Local Philosophy |
Marshall (Minn.) Historiography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-219) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Concept and the Practitioners of Local History -- 1. A Place Called Home -- 2. Grasses, Waters, and Muskrats: A Region's Compasses -- 3. The Rule of Market and the Law of the Land -- 4. Writing History through the Senses: Sounds -- 5. Anger: Mapping the Emotional Landscape -- 6. The Clandestine -- 7. Madness -- 8. Madame Bovary and a Lilac Shirt: Literature and Local History -- 9. The Red Rock: Inventing Peoples and Towns -- 10. Business First and Always -- Conclusion: The Plight of the Local Historian -- Notes -- Acknowledgments and Sources -- Index |
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Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural historian and a prolific writer of local history to |
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explore such topics as the history of cleanliness, sound, anger, madness, the clandestine, and the environment in southwestern Minnesota. While dedicated to the unique experiences of a place, his lively work demonstrates that contemporary local history provides a vital link for understanding the relation between immediate experience and the metamorphosis of the world at large. In an era of encompassing forces and global sensibilities, Rethinking Home advocates the power of local history to revivify the individual, the concrete, and the particular. This singular book offers fresh perspectives, themes, and approaches for energizing local history at a time when the very notion of place is in jeopardy. Amato explains how local historians shape their work around objects we can touch and institutions we have directly experienced. For them, theory always gives way to facts. His vivid portraits of individual people, places, situations, and cases (which include murders, crop scams, and taking custody of the law) are joined to local illustrations of the use of environmental and ecological history. This book also puts local history in the service of contemporary history with the examination of recent demographic, social, and cultural transformations. Critical concluding chapters on politics and literature--especially Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and Longfellow's Hiawatha--show how metaphor and myth invent, distort, and hold captive local towns, peoples, and places. |
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UNINA9910830644703321 |
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Bioethics for scientists / / edited by John Bryant, Linda Baggott la Velle, John Searle |
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Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, , [2002] |
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©2002 |
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9786610555468 |
0-470-84659-3 |
1-280-55546-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (374 pages) |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Bioethics for Scientists; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Part I Setting the Scene; 1 Introduction to Ethics and Bioethics; 2 The Public Evaluation of Science and Technology; Part II Ethics and the Natural World; 3 Introduction to Environmental Ethics; 4 The Use of the Rainforest as a Test Case in Environmental Ethics; 5 Environmental Ethics: Further Case-Studies; 6 Human Use of Non-Human Animals: a Biologist's View; 7 Human Use of Non-Human Animals: a Philosopher's Perspective; Part III Ethical Issues in Agriculture and Food Production; 8 GM Crops and Food: a Scientific Perspective |
9 Questioning GM Foods10 The Patenting of Genes for Agricultural Biotechnology; 11 Crop Biotechnology and Developing Countries; Part IV Ethical Issues in Biomedical Science; 12 Starting Human Life: the New Reproductive Technologies; 13 Genetic Information: Use and Abuse; 14 Human Genetics and Genetic Enhancement; 15 Patenting Human Genes: Ethical and Policy Issues; 16 Cloning of Animals and Humans; 17 Dealing with Death: Euthanasia and Related Issues; 18 Animal Experimentation in Biomedical Research; Glossary; Index |
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A dictionary definition of Bioethics is, 'the ethics, or moral principles |
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and rules of conduct, of medical and biological research'. This book is an introductory text of just biological and not medical bioethics. It covers the ethics of experimentation, including genetic manipulation, in plants and animals; ethics and biodiversity, ethics and the environment. There is increasing interest in bioethics - both in academia and by the media and the general public. Awareness of bioethics is incorporated into Biological / Environmental Science courses, plus the first dedicated modular course |
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