1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910682517003321

Autore

Agar Jon

Titolo

Science Policy under Thatcher / / Jon Agar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : UCL Press, , 2019

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 295 pages)

Collana

Book collections on Project MUSE

Disciplina

338.926

Soggetti

Science and state

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Who made science policy?; 3 The central debates on science and innovation; Coda: AIDS and bioethics; 4 Power/leaks; 5 Radioactive privatisation; 6 The Strategic Defense Initiative and the politics of research; 7 Environment and science; 8 Science policy under and after Thatcher; Bibliography; Index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783978703321

Autore

Bennett Tony <1947, >

Titolo

Pasts beyond memory : evolution, museums, colonialism / / Tony Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-53910-X

0-203-68663-2

1-134-53911-8

1-280-07956-8

9786610079568

0-203-64706-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Museum meanings

Disciplina

069/.01

Soggetti

Museums - Philosophy

Museums - Historiography

Museum techniques - Historiography

Museum exhibits - Technological innovations

Evolution - History - 19th century

Evolution - History - 20th century

Science - History - 19th century

Science - History - 20th century

Colonies - History - 19th century

Colonies - History - 20th century

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. 206-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Dead circuses: expertise, exhibition, government; The archaeological gaze of the historical sciences; Reassembling the museum; The connective tissue of civilisation; Selective memory: racial recall and civic renewal at the American Museum of Natural History; Evolutionary ground zero: colonialism and the fold of memory; Words, things and vision: evolution 'at a glance'; Postscript: slow modernity; Notes; References; Index;



Sommario/riassunto

This important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827757303321

Autore

Mooney Annabelle <1974->

Titolo

Human rights and the body : hidden in plain sight / / Annabelle Mooney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, [England] ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

9781472422600

1-315-58750-5

1-317-11983-5

1-317-11982-7

1-4724-2260-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Law, Language and Communication

Disciplina

342.08/5

Soggetti

Human rights - Language

Human body - Law and legislation - Language

Sociological jurisprudence

Sociolinguistics

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

Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: We Were Promised Jet Packs; 1 Universals and Foundations; Universality of Human Rights; Culture and Human Rights; (Anti) Foundations; The Current System; The Origin of Human Rights; Humane Models; The Human; Conclusion; 2 The Blinded Body; Bodies of Data; The Fields; Breaching, Balancing and the Monster; Particular Human Rights; The Singular Human Right; Frames; Conclusion; 3 The Body; Real Bodies; The Absent Body; Searching for the Soul of the Body; Conclusion; 4 The Body, the Index and the Other; The Body and the World

Before the Zero InstitutionThis is My Body ; The Body as Index; Is and Ought; Bodies in the World: Climate Theory; Homo Sacer; The Other; 5



The Living Body; Water as a Human Right; Plachimada: People and Property; Thirsty Corporations; Money and Sense; The Public Trust; Roman Law; Anticipatory Negligence; Trust and the Political Order; A Coda; 6 The Embodied Mind; The Body and the Mind; Metaphor; Thought, Feeling and Space; What is Universal?; Bad Biology; Step Outside; 7 The Linguistic Body; Natural Semantic Metalanguage; NSM and Human Rights; Dehumanisation; What Makes Us Inhuman?

Root CausesConclusion; Conclusion: Three Rights and Three Frames; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study brings research in linguistics and the way in which the body is written upon to bear on discourse on human rights and the body. Drawing on legal concepts and aspects of the law of human rights, the study argues that the proper frames for human rights are firstly the human body, seen as an index reliant on the natural world, secondly the globe and finally, language. These three frames generate rights to food, water, sleep and shelter, environmental protection and a right against dehumanization.