Body lore and laws / / edited by Andrew Bainham, Shelley Day Sclater and Martin Richards

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451436303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-4725-6248-8; 1-280-80146-8; 9786610801466; 1-84731-263-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (358 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.08
• Soggetti: Human body - Law and legislation - Great Britain; Human body - Social aspects - Great Britain; Electronic books.
• 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: 1. Introduction / Shelley Day Sclater -- 2. Bodies as Property: from Slavery to DNA Maps / Eileen Richardson and Bryan S. Turner -- 3. Giving, Selling and Sharing Bodies / Jonathan Herring -- 4. Discovering and Patenting Human Genes / Gregory Radick -- 5. Letting Go... Parents, Professionals and the Law in Retention of Human Material after Post Mortem / Mavis Maclean -- 6. Male Medical Students and the Male Body / Martin H. Johnson -- 7. Domestic Homicide, Gender and the Expert / Felicity Kaganas -- 8. The Many Appearances of the Body in Feminist Scholarship / Anne Bottomley -- 9. Male Bodies, Family Practices / Richard Collier -- 10. Sexualities, Sexual Relations and the Law / Andrew Bainham -- 11. Hiring Bodies: Male Clients and Prostitution / Belinda Brooks-Gordon And Loraine Gelsthorpe -- 12. Villain, Hero or Masked Stranger: Ambivalence in Transactions with Human Gametes / Rachel Cook -- 13. Court-Ordered Caesarean Sections / Jane Weaver -- 14. Dehydrating Bodies: the Bland case, The Winterton Bill and the Importance of Intention in Evaluating End-of-Life Decision-Making / John Keown -- 15. Religion, Culture and the Body of the Child / Caroline Bridge -- 16. Future Bodies: Some History and ; Future Prospects for Human Genetic Selection / Martin Richards -- 17. Perceptions of the Body and Genetic Risk / Elizabeth Chapman -- 18. Science, Medicine and Ethical Change / Derek Morgan.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book,the second produced by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, is a collection of essays on the subject of law and the human body. As the title suggests, bodies and body parts are not only subject to regulation through formal legal processes, but also the meanings attached to particular bodies, and the significance accorded to some body parts, are aspects of broader cultural processes. In short, bodies are subjected to both lore and laws. The contributors, all leading academics in the fields of Law, Sociology, Psychology, Feminism, Criminology, Biology and Genetics, respectively, offer a range of interdisciplinary papers that critically examine how bodies are constructed and regulated in law. The book is divided into two parts. Part one is concerned with 'Making Bodies' and includes papers relating to transactions in human gametes, cloning, court-ordered caesarean sections, testing for genetic risk, the patenting of human genes and the social policy implications of the growth in genetic information. Part two is concerned with 'Using and Abusing Bodies'. It contains chapters relating to sexualities, sexual orientation and the law, sex workers and their clients, domestic homicide, religious and cultural practices and other issues involving children's bodies, the ownership of the body and body parts and the legal and ethical issues surrounding euthanasia."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Flexible Spacecraft Dynamics, Control and Guidance : Technologies by Giovanni Campolo / / by Leonardo Mazzini

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910254194903321
• Autore: Mazzini Leonardo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016
• ISBN: 3-319-25540-1
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2016.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 p.)
• Collana: Springer Aerospace Technology, , 1869-1730
• Disciplina: 629.41
• Soggetti: Aerospace engineering; Astronautics; Automatic control; Space sciences; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Control and Systems Theory; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
• 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 at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- The Kinematic of the flexible satellite -- The Satellite Attitude Control System -- The Dynamic of the flexible body -- The Dynamic in the Gravitational Field -- The Optimal Control Theory -- Attitude Control Methods -- Orbital Dynamic and Control -- Spacecraft Propulsion -- Sensors and Actuators technologies -- Complements to Body Kinematic -- Elements of Estimation Theory -- Basics of Lagrangian Equations -- The J2 perturbation solution -- Complements to Optimal Orbital Transfer -- Elements of Plasma physics.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is an up-to-date compendium on spacecraft attitude and orbit control (AOC) that offers a systematic and complete treatment of the subject with the aim of imparting the theoretical and practical knowledge that is required by designers, engineers, and researchers. After an introduction on the kinematics of the flexible and agile space vehicles, the modern architecture and functions of an AOC system are ; described and the main AOC modes reviewed with possible design solutions and examples. The dynamics of the flexible body in space are then considered using an original Lagrangian approach suitable for the control applications of large space flexible structures. Subsequent chapters address optimal control theory, attitude control methods, and orbit control applications, including the optimal orbital transfer with finite and infinite thrust. The theory is integrated with a description of current propulsion systems, with the focus especially on the new electric propulsion systems and state of the art sensors and actuators.