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Reluctant Intimacies. Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands
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Bioethics in the context of history: philosophical research of bioethical movement
(I. V. Michel)
Bioethics in historical context: philosophical studies of bioethical movements: monograph / I. V. Michel. Saratov: Sarat. GOS. tehn. University, 2015. 248 p.
ISBN 978-5-7433-2805-5
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This monograph presents a philosophical reconstruction of the main stages of the bioethics movement development. Bioethics before becoming an intellectual critical enterprise initiated during the Nuremberg trial of Nazi medical crimes and was continued in the attempts of the educated public in different countries to understand the ethical, legal and social implications of developments in biomedicine, biotechnology, and scientific and technical progress in general.
Aging and the Digital Life Course
(by David Prendergast, Chiara Garattini)
ISBN-10: 1782386912
ISBN-13: 978-1782386919
Across the life course, new forms of community, ways of keeping in contact, and practices for engaging in work, healthcare, retail, learning and leisure are evolving rapidly.
Thai in Vitro: Gender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction
(by Andrea Whittaker)
ISBN-13: 978-1782387329
ISBN-10: 1782387323
In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those couples that combine a range of religious, traditional and high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. Read more
Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences
(by Martyn Pickersgill, Ira Van Keulen)
ISBN-13: 978-1780526324
ISBN-10: 1780526326
The neurosciences are the new cutting edge in biomedicine, and this is the first book to take a sociological imagination to this field. The neurosciences are more than a collection of scientific practices they offer up new ways of thinking about mind, body and society.