Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature / / Mahala Yates Stripling |
Autore | Stripling Mahala Yates |
Edizione | [Abridged paperback edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | San Francisco, CA : , : University of California Medical Humanities Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (174 pages) |
Disciplina | 809/.933561 |
Altri autori (Persone) | StriplingMahala Yates |
Collana | Pedagogy in medical humanities |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine in literature
Fiction Bioethics Bioethique Roman - 19e siecle - Histoire et critique Medecine dans la litterature Bioethical Issues Medicine in Literature Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-9889865-2-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Chronology of events in literature, medicine, and science -- 1. Technology's creature: an analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter" -- 2. A Brave New World: an analysis of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Robin Cook's Coma -- 3. Contagions/isolations: an analysis of Albert Camus' The Plague and David Fedlshuh's Miss Evers' Boys -- 4. Illness and culture: an analysis of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy -- 5. End of Life- disease and death: an analysis of John Updike's Rabbit at Rest and Margaret Edson's Wit -- Glossary of terms: literary, medical, and scientific -- Index. |
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Stripling Mahala Yates | ||
San Francisco, CA : , : University of California Medical Humanities Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Politics of life itself : biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century / / Nikolas Rose |
Autore | Rose Nikolas S |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (371 pages) |
Disciplina | 174/.957 |
Collana | Information series |
Soggetto topico |
Bioethics
Medical innovations - Social aspects Bioethique Medecine - Innovations - Aspect social Genomica Politieke aspecten Ethische aspecten |
ISBN |
9781400827503
1400827507 9781282458291 1282458299 9786612458293 6612458291 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Biopolitics in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 2. Politics and Life -- Chapter 3. An Emergent Form of Life? -- Chapter 4. At Genetic Risk -- Chapter 5. Biological Citizens -- Chapter 6. Race in the Age of Genomic Medicine -- Chapter 7. Neurochemical Selves -- Chapter 8. The Biology of Control -- Afterword. Somatic Ethics and the Spirit of Biocapital -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910172213003321 |
Rose Nikolas S | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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