wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Narrating the New Predictive Genetics: Ethics, Ethnography and Science
ISBN: 9780521833141 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This work explores the way changes in technology have affected the relationship between ethics and medicine, generating new approaches to ethical issues and the implications of medical practice. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research with families affected by Huntington's Disease, Monica Konrad explores the huge disparity between the experience of living with the results of genetic testing and the knowledge and expertise to develop policy, clinical services and support.
This work explores the way changes in technology have affected the relationship between ethics and medicine, generating new approaches to ethical issu...
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517,36 zł |
Nameless Relations: Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange between British Ova Donors and Recipients
ISBN: 9781571816474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Based on the author's fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procreative practices of anonymous ova and embryo donation. Giving voice to both groups of women participating in the demanding donation experience - the donors on the one side and the ever-hopeful IVF recipients on the other - Konrad shows how one dimension of the new reproductive technologies involves an unfamiliar relatedness between nameless and untraceable procreative strangers. Offsetting informants' local narratives against traditional Western... Based on the author's fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procre... |
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513,51 zł |
Narrating the New Predictive Genetics: Ethics, Ethnography and Science
ISBN: 9780521540667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This work explores the way changes in technology have affected the relationship between ethics and medicine, generating new approaches to ethical issues and the implications of medical practice. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research with families affected by Huntington's Disease, Monica Konrad explores the huge disparity between the experience of living with the results of genetic testing and the knowledge and expertise to develop policy, clinical services and support.
This work explores the way changes in technology have affected the relationship between ethics and medicine, generating new approaches to ethical issu...
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216,69 zł |
Nameless Relations: Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange Between British Ova Donors and Recipients
ISBN: 9781845450403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Konrad has produced an exceptionally interesting and totally original book . . . a major contribution to social theory." - Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge University Based on the author's fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procreative practices of anonymous ova and embryo donation. Giving voice to both groups of women participating in the demanding donation experience - the donors on the one side and the ever-hopeful IVF recipients on the other - Konrad shows how one dimension of the new reproductive technologies...
"Konrad has produced an exceptionally interesting and totally original book . . . a major contribution to social theory." - Marilyn Strathern, Cambrid...
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144,97 zł |
Collaborators Collaborating: Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations
ISBN: 9780857454805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrialized settings to resource-poor communities with weak or little infrastructure, countries with emerging economies are starting to expand new indigenous science bases of their own. The case studies here, from the UK, West Africa, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, Latin America and elsewhere, explore the forms of collaborative knowledge relations in play and the effects of ethics review and legal systems on local communities, and also demonstrate how... As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrialized... |
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513,51 zł |
Aspects of European Cultural Diversity
ISBN: 9780415124164 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The word Europe' is seen and heard constantly, in newspapers, on television and children are taught about it in school. But what does it really mean to us? Does it have the same meaning for everyone? How does it affect our everyday lives? Do we consider ourselves to be Europeans and what does that mean in practice?
This book concentrates on aspects of European cultural diversity. The four essays included deal with language, education, the mass media and everyday culture. The issues under discussion are those that strongly influence the way in which we define our common, everyday identity.... The word Europe' is seen and heard constantly, in newspapers, on television and children are taught about it in school. But what does it really mean t...
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752,12 zł |
Aspects of European Cultural Diversity
ISBN: 9780415124171 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The word Europe' is seen and heard constantly, in newspapers, on television and children are taught about it in school. But what does it really mean to us? Does it have the same meaning for everyone? How does it affect our everyday lives? Do we consider ourselves to be Europeans and what does that mean in practice?
This book concentrates on aspects of European cultural diversity. The four essays included deal with language, education, the mass media and everyday culture. The issues under discussion are those that strongly influence the way in which we define our common, everyday identity.... The word Europe' is seen and heard constantly, in newspapers, on television and children are taught about it in school. But what does it really mean t...
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67,38 zł |