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Mit dem Aufkommen der Biotechnologien ist die Natur des Menschen scheinbar verfgbar und manipulierbar geworden und die Frage nach dem Verhltnis von biologischem Leben und menschlicher Lebensform rckt zunehmend ins Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit. Bios, das spezifische Leben einzelner Wesen, und Zo, die einfache Tatsache des Lebens, scheinen immer strker auseinanderzutreten. Der interdisziplinre Sammelband stellt den berlegungen bekannter europischer Autoren die Positionen namhafter Vertreter der angelschsischen Science Technology Studies gegenber und bietet so einen aufschlureichen berblick ber...

The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work, and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides a comprehensive, modern, and self-contained account of the research in the growing area of family economics. The first half of the book develops several alternative models of family decision making. Particular attention is paid to the collective model and its testable implications. The second...

Suspect Families is the first book to investigate the social, political, and ethical implications of parental testing for family reunification in immigration cases. Drawing on policy documents, legal frameworks, case study material and interviews with representatives of governmental and non-governmental organisation and immigration authorities, immigration lawyers, geneticists and applicants for family reunification, the book analyses the different political regimes and social arrangements in which DNA analysis is adopted for decision-making on family reunification in three distinct European...

This volume is both a free-verse offering in poetry and lyrics of love and gratitude to God and a personal journal of the authors varied experiences as a Christian.