Bioscience and the good life / / Iain Brassington |
Autore | Brassington Iain |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : illustrations; digital, HTML file(s) |
Disciplina | 303.483 |
Collana | Science Ethics and Society |
Soggetto topico | Life sciences - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-4725-4431-5
1-78093-093-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Dedication --Acknowledgements --Chapter 1. The good of bioscience --Chapter 2. Bad arguments against better lives --Chapter 3. Must we make better people? --Chapter 4. Sex, death and cabbages : a defence of mortality --Chapter 5. Designs for life --Chapter 6. Thinking better about better thinking --Chapter 7. Good is as good does? The case of ‘moral enhancement’ --Chapter 8. Bioscience and the duty to research, part 1 : ways to make life better --Chapter 9. Bioscience and the duty to research, part 2 : non-beneficent arguments --Chapter 10. Bioscience and the good life --Bibliography --Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910774900303321 |
Brassington Iain | ||
London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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Changing life [[electronic resource] ] : genomes, ecologies, bodies, commodities / / Peter J. Taylor, Saul E. Halfon, Paul N. Edwards, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
Disciplina | 570/.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
TaylorPeter J. <1955->
HalfonSaul E EdwardsPaul N |
Collana | Cultural politics |
Soggetto topico |
Life sciences - Social aspects
Life sciences - Political aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8166-8846-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction: Changing Life in the New World Dis/Order; The Terminator Meets Commander Data: Cyborg Identity in the New World Order; Bodies of Knowledge: Biology and the Intercultural University; Genetic Engineering, Discourses of Deficiency, and the New Politics of Population; Contradictions along the Commodity Road to Environmental Stabilization: Foresting Gambian Gardens; Discipline or Solidarity? Ecology as Politics; Overpopulating the World: Notes toward a Discursive Reading
How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? Undifferentiated Science-Politics and Its Potential ReconstructionDo Androids Pulverize Tiger Bones to Use as Aphrodisiacs?; Bubbles in the Cosmic Saucepan; Afterword: Shifting Positions for Knowing and Intervening in the Cultural Politics of the Life Sciences; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457403603321 |
Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997 | ||
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Changing life [[electronic resource] ] : genomes, ecologies, bodies, commodities / / Peter J. Taylor, Saul E. Halfon, Paul N. Edwards, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
Disciplina | 570/.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
TaylorPeter J. <1955->
HalfonSaul E EdwardsPaul N |
Collana | Cultural politics |
Soggetto topico |
Life sciences - Social aspects
Life sciences - Political aspects |
ISBN | 0-8166-8846-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction: Changing Life in the New World Dis/Order; The Terminator Meets Commander Data: Cyborg Identity in the New World Order; Bodies of Knowledge: Biology and the Intercultural University; Genetic Engineering, Discourses of Deficiency, and the New Politics of Population; Contradictions along the Commodity Road to Environmental Stabilization: Foresting Gambian Gardens; Discipline or Solidarity? Ecology as Politics; Overpopulating the World: Notes toward a Discursive Reading
How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? Undifferentiated Science-Politics and Its Potential ReconstructionDo Androids Pulverize Tiger Bones to Use as Aphrodisiacs?; Bubbles in the Cosmic Saucepan; Afterword: Shifting Positions for Knowing and Intervening in the Cultural Politics of the Life Sciences; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784105703321 |
Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Changing life : genomes, ecologies, bodies, commodities / / Peter J. Taylor, Saul E. Halfon, Paul N. Edwards, editors |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
Disciplina | 570/.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
TaylorPeter J. <1955->
HalfonSaul E EdwardsPaul N |
Collana | Cultural politics |
Soggetto topico |
Life sciences - Social aspects
Life sciences - Political aspects |
ISBN | 0-8166-8846-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction: Changing Life in the New World Dis/Order; The Terminator Meets Commander Data: Cyborg Identity in the New World Order; Bodies of Knowledge: Biology and the Intercultural University; Genetic Engineering, Discourses of Deficiency, and the New Politics of Population; Contradictions along the Commodity Road to Environmental Stabilization: Foresting Gambian Gardens; Discipline or Solidarity? Ecology as Politics; Overpopulating the World: Notes toward a Discursive Reading
How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? Undifferentiated Science-Politics and Its Potential ReconstructionDo Androids Pulverize Tiger Bones to Use as Aphrodisiacs?; Bubbles in the Cosmic Saucepan; Afterword: Shifting Positions for Knowing and Intervening in the Cultural Politics of the Life Sciences; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808392103321 |
Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Collaboration in the new life sciences / / edited by John N. Parker, Niki Vermeulen, and Bart Penders |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina | 570.72 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ParkerJohn N
PendersBart VermeulenNiki |
Soggetto topico |
Life sciences - Social aspects
Cooperation |
ISBN |
1-315-57262-1
1-317-16447-4 1-317-16446-6 1-282-74366-X 9786612743665 0-7546-9717-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Part I Collaboration Arises; 1 Collecting Collaborations; 2 Organising the Field; 3 Multidisciplinary Collaborations in Toxicology and Paleo-ecology; Part II Collaboration in Ecology and the Environment; 4 Two Approaches to Big Science; 5 Integrating the Social into the Ecological; 6 Infrastructuring Ecology; 7 Customisation of Transdisciplinary Collaboration; 8 A Data Bias in Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the Sciences; Part III Collaboration in the Molecular Life Sciences
9 Matchmaking Mechanisms10 Systems Biology, Interdisciplinarity and Disciplinary Identity; 11 The Rice Sequence Collaborations; Part IV Collaboration in the New Life Sciences Revisited; 12 Collaborationism; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785252703321 |
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Collaboration in the new life sciences / / edited by John N. Parker, Niki Vermeulen, and Bart Penders |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina | 570.72 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ParkerJohn N
PendersBart VermeulenNiki |
Soggetto topico |
Life sciences - Social aspects
Cooperation |
ISBN |
1-315-57262-1
1-317-16447-4 1-317-16446-6 1-282-74366-X 9786612743665 0-7546-9717-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Part I Collaboration Arises; 1 Collecting Collaborations; 2 Organising the Field; 3 Multidisciplinary Collaborations in Toxicology and Paleo-ecology; Part II Collaboration in Ecology and the Environment; 4 Two Approaches to Big Science; 5 Integrating the Social into the Ecological; 6 Infrastructuring Ecology; 7 Customisation of Transdisciplinary Collaboration; 8 A Data Bias in Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the Sciences; Part III Collaboration in the Molecular Life Sciences
9 Matchmaking Mechanisms10 Systems Biology, Interdisciplinarity and Disciplinary Identity; 11 The Rice Sequence Collaborations; Part IV Collaboration in the New Life Sciences Revisited; 12 Collaborationism; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817724103321 |
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Collaboration in the new life sciences [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John N. Parker, Niki Vermeulen, and Bart Penders |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Farnham, Surrey ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina | 570.72 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
VermeulenNiki
PendersBart ParkerJohn N |
Soggetto topico |
Life sciences - Social aspects
Cooperation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-317-16447-4
1-317-16446-6 1-282-74366-X 9786612743665 0-7546-9717-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Part I Collaboration Arises; 1 Collecting Collaborations; 2 Organising the Field; 3 Multidisciplinary Collaborations in Toxicology and Paleo-ecology; Part II Collaboration in Ecology and the Environment; 4 Two Approaches to Big Science; 5 Integrating the Social into the Ecological; 6 Infrastructuring Ecology; 7 Customisation of Transdisciplinary Collaboration; 8 A Data Bias in Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the Sciences; Part III Collaboration in the Molecular Life Sciences
9 Matchmaking Mechanisms10 Systems Biology, Interdisciplinarity and Disciplinary Identity; 11 The Rice Sequence Collaborations; Part IV Collaboration in the New Life Sciences Revisited; 12 Collaborationism; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459339103321 |
Farnham, Surrey ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Contested categories [[electronic resource] ] : life sciences in society / / edited by Susanne Bauer, Ayo Wahlberg |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Burlington, VT ; ; Surrey, Eng., : Ashgate Pub., c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
WahlbergAyo
BauerSusanne |
Collana | Series--theory, technology, and society |
Soggetto topico |
Social medicine
Medical sciences - Social aspects Life sciences - Social aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-317-16041-X
1-282-34427-7 9786612344275 0-7546-9867-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: Categories of Life; 1 Human and Object, Subject and Thing: The Troublesome Nature of Human Biological Material (HBM); 2 Substances of the Body: Blood, Genes, and Personhood; 3 Governing Risk Through Informed Choice: Prenatal Testing in Welfarist Maternity Care; 4 Visualizing and Calculating Life: Matters of Fact in the Context of Prenatal Risk Assessment; 5 Serious Disease as Kinds of Living; 6 From Society to Molecule and Back: The Contested Scale of Public Health Science
7 Life Beyond Information:Contesting Life and the Body in History andMolecular Biology8 The Place and Space of Research Work: Studying Control in a Bioscience Laboratory; 9 Almost Human: Scientific and Popular Strategies for Making Sense of 'Missing Links'; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455445903321 |
Burlington, VT ; ; Surrey, Eng., : Ashgate Pub., c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Contested categories [[electronic resource] ] : life sciences in society / / edited by Susanne Bauer, Ayo Wahlberg |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Burlington, VT ; ; Surrey, Eng., : Ashgate Pub., c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
WahlbergAyo
BauerSusanne |
Collana | Series--theory, technology, and society |
Soggetto topico |
Social medicine
Medical sciences - Social aspects Life sciences - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-315-57397-0
1-317-16041-X 1-282-34427-7 9786612344275 0-7546-9867-X |
Classificazione | 42.66 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: Categories of Life; 1 Human and Object, Subject and Thing: The Troublesome Nature of Human Biological Material (HBM); 2 Substances of the Body: Blood, Genes, and Personhood; 3 Governing Risk Through Informed Choice: Prenatal Testing in Welfarist Maternity Care; 4 Visualizing and Calculating Life: Matters of Fact in the Context of Prenatal Risk Assessment; 5 Serious Disease as Kinds of Living; 6 From Society to Molecule and Back: The Contested Scale of Public Health Science
7 Life Beyond Information:Contesting Life and the Body in History andMolecular Biology8 The Place and Space of Research Work: Studying Control in a Bioscience Laboratory; 9 Almost Human: Scientific and Popular Strategies for Making Sense of 'Missing Links'; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778427603321 |
Burlington, VT ; ; Surrey, Eng., : Ashgate Pub., c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Contested categories [[electronic resource] ] : life sciences in society / / edited by Susanne Bauer, Ayo Wahlberg |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Burlington, VT ; ; Surrey, Eng., : Ashgate Pub., c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
WahlbergAyo
BauerSusanne |
Collana | Series--theory, technology, and society |
Soggetto topico |
Social medicine
Medical sciences - Social aspects Life sciences - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-315-57397-0
1-317-16041-X 1-282-34427-7 9786612344275 0-7546-9867-X |
Classificazione | 42.66 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: Categories of Life; 1 Human and Object, Subject and Thing: The Troublesome Nature of Human Biological Material (HBM); 2 Substances of the Body: Blood, Genes, and Personhood; 3 Governing Risk Through Informed Choice: Prenatal Testing in Welfarist Maternity Care; 4 Visualizing and Calculating Life: Matters of Fact in the Context of Prenatal Risk Assessment; 5 Serious Disease as Kinds of Living; 6 From Society to Molecule and Back: The Contested Scale of Public Health Science
7 Life Beyond Information:Contesting Life and the Body in History andMolecular Biology8 The Place and Space of Research Work: Studying Control in a Bioscience Laboratory; 9 Almost Human: Scientific and Popular Strategies for Making Sense of 'Missing Links'; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828277303321 |
Burlington, VT ; ; Surrey, Eng., : Ashgate Pub., c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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