1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781018203321

Autore

Löwy Ilana <1948->

Titolo

Preventive strikes [[electronic resource] ] : women, precancer, and prophylactic surgery / / Ilana Löwy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8018-9869-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Disciplina

616.99/4071

Soggetti

Cancer in women - Surgery - Social aspects

Precancerous conditions - Surgery - Social aspects

Breast - Cancer - Surgery - Social aspects

Ovaries - Cancer - Surgery - Social aspects

Social medicine

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

Biopsy -- Classifications -- Borderline lesions -- In situ cancers -- The origins of screening -- The generalization of screening -- Heredity -- New surgical radicalism.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778456203321

Autore

Latour Bruno

Titolo

Politics of nature : how to bring the sciences into democracy / / Bruno Latour ; translated by Catherine Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. : , : Harvard University Press, , 2004

ISBN

0-674-03996-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 307 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

MB 3000

Disciplina

320.5/8

Soggetti

Political ecology

Green movement

Human ecology

Science - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: What Is to Be Done with Political Ecology? -- 1. Why Political Ecology Has to Let Go of Nature -- 2. How to Bring the Collective Together -- 3. A New Separation of Powers -- 4. Skills for the Collective -- 5. Exploring Common Worlds -- Conclusion: What Is to Be Done? Political Ecology! -- Summary of the Argument (for Readers in a Hurry . . .) -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for political ecology--transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: "Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this jumble of Greek philosophy, French Cartesianism and American parks." Nature, he asserts, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process. Thus, his book proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society--and the constitution, in its place, of a collective, a community incorporating humans and nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced. In a critique of the



distinction between fact and value, Latour suggests a redescription of the type of political philosophy implicated in such a "commonsense" division--which here reveals itself as distinctly uncommonsensical and in fact fatal to democracy and to a healthy development of the sciences. Moving beyond the modernist institutions of "mononaturalism" and "multiculturalism," Latour develops the idea of "multinaturalism," a complex collectivity determined not by outside experts claiming absolute reason but by "diplomats" who are flexible and open to experimentation.