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Futures of Reproduction
Issues in reproductive ethics, such as the capacity of parents to 'choose children', present challenges to philosophical ideas of freedom, responsibility and harm. This book responds to these challenges by proposing a new framework for thinking about the ethics of reproduction that emphasizes the wa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Biopolitics: Bioethics And Biopolitics (International Library Of Ethics, Law, And The New Medicine Ser. #49)
The concept of biopolitics has been one of the most important and widely used in recent years in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. In Biopolitics, Mills provides a wide-ranging and insightful introduction to the field of biopolitical studies. The first part of the book provides ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Regulating Health and Safety in the British Mining Industries, 1800–1914 (Studies in Labour History)
This book explores the emergence and growth of state responsibility for safer and healthier working practices in British mining and the responses of labour and industry to expanding regulation and control. It begins with an assessment of working practice in the coal and metalliferous mining industri... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
The Philosophy of Agamben (Continental European Philosophy Ser. #11)
Giorgio Agamben has gained widespread popularity in recent years for his rethinking of radical politics and his approach to metaphysics and language. However, the extraordinary breadth of historical, legal and philosophical sources which contribute to the complexity and depth of Agamben's thinking c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Futures of Reproduction: Bioethics and Biopolitics
Issues in reproductive ethics, such as the capacity of parents to 'choose children', present challenges to philosophical ideas of freedom, responsibility and harm. This book responds to these challenges by proposing a new framework for thinking about the ethics of reproduction that emphasizes the w... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Ethics)
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics is an outstanding resource for anyone with an interest in feminist bioethics, with chapters covering topics from justice and power to the climate crisis. Comprising forty-two chapters by emerging and established scholars, the volume is divided into six pa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Gus and Grandpa at Basketball
"A great intergenerational team." --Kirkus Reviews Gus loves basketball -- that is, basketball practice with Pete, the coach, and shooting baskets at Grandpa's house with only Grandpa's dog, Skipper, in attendance. Basketball games are another story. What if Gus misses every basket, and everybody l... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: The Original 1925 Version
The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XIII: A Vision is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholar George Bornstein and formerly the late Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. One of the strangest works of literary modernism, A Vision is Yeats'... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1925 -
A Vision: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIV
A new annotated edition of Yeats's indispensable, lifelong work of philosophy--a meditation on the connections between the imagination, history, and the metaphysical--this volume reveals the poet's greatest thoughts on the occult.First published in 1925, and then substantially revised by the author ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1925 -
Small Animal Veterinary Psychiatry
by Ali Thompson • Alison Blaxter • Alex Darvill • Ed Hall • Tom Harcourt-Brown • Lynn Hewison • Angie Hibbert • Katherine A. Houpt • Jacqui Ley • Samantha Lindley • Sarah L. Liversage • Professor Daniel Mills • Carlo Siracusa • Stephen Waisglass • Helen ZulchProblem behaviours are often the result of how an animal thinks and feels, genetics, and environmental influences. Steering away from just description diagnoses and focusing instead on emotional and cognitive causes, this book provides a practical approach to diagnosing, treating, and managing behav... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021