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UNINA9910458874103321 |
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Autore |
Whiteside Alan |
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Titolo |
HIV/AIDS : a very short introduction / / Alan Whiteside |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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1-281-34134-7 |
9786611341343 |
0-19-151760-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (147 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Very short introductions ; ; 174 |
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Soggetti |
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AIDS (Disease) |
HIV infections |
Electronic books. |
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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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The emergence and state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic -- How HIV/AIDS works and scientific responses -- The factors that shape different epidemics -- Illness, deaths, and populations -- The impact of AIDS on production and people -- AIDS and politics -- Responding to HIV/AIDS -- The next 25 years. |
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Providing an introduction to HIV/AIDS, this book explains the science, the international and local politics, the demographics and the devastating consequences of the disease. This book is aimed at general readers interested in the science, the epidemiology and the social effects of the disease which has killed 20 million. |
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UNINA9910483900603321 |
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Autore |
Alcaraz Aleksandra Łukaszewicz |
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Are Cyborgs Persons? : An Account of Futurist Ethics / / by Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
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[1st ed. 2021.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XXV, 197 p. 11 illus., 10 illus. in color.) |
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Collana |
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Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors, , 2945-6606 |
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Social sciences - Philosophy |
Science - Social aspects |
Ethics |
Aesthetics |
Social Philosophy |
Posthumanism |
Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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1. Introduction -- 2. Evolutionary Continuity between Human Person and Cyborg Person -- 3. Semiotic Approach to Person and Cyborg Person -- 4. Person in a Social and Technological World -- 5. New Forms of Embodiment -- 6. Cyborg and Material Communication -- 7. Vitalist, Posthuman, and Environmental Ethics -- 8. Possibility of Cyborgean Ethics and Politics -- 9. Conclusions for Future. |
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This book presents argumentation for an evolutionary continuity between human persons and cyborg persons, based on the thought of Joseph Margolis. Relying on concepts of cultural realism and post-Darwinism, Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz redefines the notion of the person, rather than a human, and discusses the various issues of human body enhancement and online implants transforming modes of perception, cognition, and communication. She argues that new kinds |
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of embodiment should not make acquiring the status of the person impossible, and different kinds of embodiments may be accepted socially and culturally. She proposes we consider ethical problems of agency and responsibility, critically approaching vitalist posthuman ethics, and rethinking the metaphysical standing of normativity, to create space for possible cyborgean ethics that may be executed in an Extended Republic of Humanity. |
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