1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789136003321

Autore

Cooper David D

Titolo

Learning in the plural : essays on the humanities and public life / / David D. Cooper ; foreword by Julie Ellison ; afterword by Scott J. Peters and Timothy K. Eatman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-60917-402-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Transformations in Higher Education

Altri autori (Persone)

EllisonJulie K

PetersScott J

EatmanTimothy K

Disciplina

001.301

Soggetti

Humanities - Philosophy

City and town life

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword: On the Bus, by Julie Ellison; Introduction; Believing in Difference: The Ethics of Civic Literacy (1993); Moral Literacy (1994); Reading, Writing, and Reflection (1998); The Changing Seasons of Liberal Learning (1998); Academic Professionalism and the Betrayal of the Land-Grant Tradition (1999); Bus Rides and Forks in the Road: The Making of a Public Scholar (2002); Education for Democracy: A Conversation in Two Keys (2004); Is Civic Discourse Still Alive? (2007); Four Seasons of Deliberative Learning (2008); Can Civic Engagement Rescue the Humanities? (2013)

Afterword: Speaking and Working in Critically Hopeful Terms, by Scott J. Peters and Timothy K. EatmanAcknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Can civic engagement rescue the humanities from a prolonged identity crisis? How can the practices and methods, the conventions and innovations of humanities teaching and scholarship yield knowledge that contributes to the public good? These are just two of the vexing questions David D. Cooper tackles in his essays on the humanities, literacy, and public life. As insightful as they are provocative, these essays address important issues head-on and raise questions about the



relevance and roles of humanities teaching and scholarship, the moral footings and public purposes of the humaniti

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910495870703321

Titolo

Justice and the human genome project / / Timothy F. Murphy and Marc A. Lappé, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1994

ISBN

0-585-29984-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 178 p. )

Altri autori (Persone)

MurphyTimothy F. <1955->

LappéMarc

Disciplina

174/.25

Soggetti

Human gene mapping - Moral and ethical aspects

Chromosome Mapping - congresses

Genetic Engineering - congresses

Genome, Human - congresses

Human gene mapping - Congresses - Moral and ethical aspects

Chromosome Mapping

Confidentiality

Genetic Enhancement

DNA Fingerprinting

Government Regulation

Health Care Rationing

Risk

Social Change

Social Justice

Pedigree

Social Control, Formal

Databases, Nucleic Acid

Ethics

Ethics, Medical

Genetic Testing

Prejudice

Health

Delivery of Health Care

Economics

Databases, Factual

Resource Allocation



Insurance

Minority Groups

Prenatal Diagnosis

Eugenics

Genetic Diseases, Inborn

Genetic Engineering

Genetics

Sociology

Health Services Accessibility

Forensic Medicine

Databases as Topic

Genetic Techniques

Ethics, Clinical

Population Characteristics

Jurisprudence

History

Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities

Human Rights

Socioeconomic Factors

Principle-Based Ethics

Biology

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation

Probability

Social Sciences

Databases, Genetic

Biomedical Enhancement

Financing, Organized

Diagnostic Services

Humanities

Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures

Forensic Psychiatry

Genetic Services

Health Planning

Morals

Patient Rights

Psychology, Social

Patient Care Management

Philosophy

Biometric Identification

Diagnostic Techniques, Obstetrical and Gynecological

Investigative Techniques

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Forensic Sciences

Information Storage and Retrieval

Health Services

Ethics, Professional

Disease

Biological Science Disciplines

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms



Biomedical Technology

Diagnosis

Statistics as Topic

Preventive Health Services

Health Services Administration

Biometry

Information Systems

Mathematical Concepts

Psychiatry

Behavioral Sciences

Technology

Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment

Criminology

Community Health Services

Psychiatry and Psychology

Epidemiologic Methods

Phenomena and Processes

Information Science

Medical Informatics Applications

Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services

Natural Science Disciplines

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Technology, Industry, and Agriculture

Disciplines and Occupations

Public Health

Medical Informatics

Quality of Health Care

Technology, Industry, Agriculture

Environment and Public Health

Health & Biological Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.