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Workers at Risk: Voices from the Workplace
ISBN: 9780226571287 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Workers at Risk" is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend on glass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toys are produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life.
More than seventy of them speak here of their jobs, their health, and the difficult choices they face in coming to grips with the responsibilities, risks, fears, and satisfactions of... "Workers at Risk" is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend on glass b...
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163,80 zł |
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A Disease of Society: Cultural and Institutional Responses to AIDS
ISBN: 9780521407434 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The impact of AIDS cannot be adequately measured by epidemiology alone. As the editors of this volume argue, AIDS must be understood as a "disease of society," which is challenging and changing society profoundly. Numerous books on AIDS have looked at the ways in which our social institutions, norms and values have determined how the disease has been dealt with, but this book examines the ways in which AIDS is, in turn, changing our social institutions, norms and values. Eleven chapters explore the impact of AIDS on the arts and popular entertainment, the effects of the disease on our concept...
The impact of AIDS cannot be adequately measured by epidemiology alone. As the editors of this volume argue, AIDS must be understood as a "disease of ...
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129,10 zł |
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The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon
ISBN: 9780472030040 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "The DNA Mystique is a wake-up call to all who would dismiss America's love affair with 'the gene' as a merely eccentric obsession."
--In These Times "Nelkin and Lindee are to be warmly congratulated for opening up this intriguing field of genetics in popular culture] to further study." --Nature The DNA Mystique suggests that the gene in popular culture draws on scientific ideas but is not constrained by the technical definition of the gene as a section of DNA that codes for a protein. In highlighting DNA as it appears in soap operas, comic books,... "The DNA Mystique is a wake-up call to all who would dismiss America's love affair with 'the gene' as a merely eccentric obsession."
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130,77 zł |
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The Creation Controversy: Science or Scripture in the Schools
ISBN: 9780595001941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,50 zł |
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Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information
ISBN: 9780226571294 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A study of the pervasiveness of diagnostic testing and the potential it offers institutions to classify, categorize and ultimately control individuals. Nelkin and Tancredi explore the ethical, social and legal implications of technologies that can lead to new forms of discrimination in the name of standardized, objective measurements. They caution against the creation of an underclass deemed unemployable, untrainable or uninsurable by such diagnostic tests.
A study of the pervasiveness of diagnostic testing and the potential it offers institutions to classify, categorize and ultimately control individuals...
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141,96 zł |
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A Disease of Society: Cultural and Institutional Responses to AIDS
ISBN: 9780521404112 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The impact of AIDS cannot be adequately measured by epidemiology alone. As the editors of this volume argue, AIDS must be understood as a "disease of society," which is challenging and changing society profoundly. Numerous books on AIDS have looked at the ways in which our social institutions, norms and values have determined how the disease has been dealt with, but this book examines the ways in which AIDS is, in turn, changing our social institutions, norms and values. Eleven chapters explore the impact of AIDS on the arts and popular entertainment, the effects of the disease on our concept...
The impact of AIDS cannot be adequately measured by epidemiology alone. As the editors of this volume argue, AIDS must be understood as a "disease of ...
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252,00 zł |
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