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Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00094851781
Offers a review of modern-day scientific breakthroughs in biology and genetics while emphasizing the need for human ethics and values with regard to genetic manipulation
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Titel: Brave New Worlds: Staying Human in the ...
Verlag: Viking Adult
Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Anbieter: More Than Words, Waltham, MA, USA
Zustand: Good. A sound copy with only light wear. Overall a solid copy at a great price! Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BOS-K-09d-01556
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Anbieter: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Neuchatel, NEUCH, Schweiz
8vo. x, 198 pp. Index. Quarter slate cloth, gray boards, dust jacket. Very good. ISBN: 0670869899 "In a less-than-subtle anti-science polemic, London Times columnist Appleyard (Understanding the Present) addresses some of the myriad ramifications of our expanding knowledge of genetics. "Concealed within the knowledge we are now acquiring are insights that may be profoundly socially divisive and which could overthrow the basis on which the wealth and stability of Western democracies are constructed," is one of his many pronouncements. Appleyard adequately explores some of the obvious ethical implications sure to be present in a future in which our genetic makeups are known to all and possibly open to manipulation: selective abortion of fetuses not to the liking of prospective parents; the refusal of insurance companies to cover individuals with genetic predispositions for certain disorders; the inevitable quagmire in the criminal justice system when criminals argue that their genes forced them to act in an antisocial manner. His main point, however, is that the social implications of science are far too important to be left solely to the scientists. But try as he might to whip this thesis into a controversy, most readers will find it a straw man, as few scientists disagree with Appleyard's view. There are many, however, who would argue strenuously with his overly simplified attacks on scientists and the scientific method--for example, that "[i]n order to become scientific, we must become inhuman." Try telling that to Einstein, Tagore or Bohm. (Aug.)" â" Publisher's Weekly. CONTENTS: Women's health / Adele E. Clarke --Pathways of health and death / Lois M. Verbrugge --Sexuality and woman's sexual nature / Nancy Sahli --Childbirth in America, 1650-1990 / Janet Carlisle Bogdan --Race as a factor in health / Edward H. Beardsley --Historical perspectives on women and mental illness / Nancy Tomes --Surgical gynecology / Judith M. Roy --Professionalization of obstetrics / Charlotte G. Borst --Women's reproductive health / Suzanne Poirier --Institutionalizing women's health care in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America / Joan E. Lynaugh --Women and sectarian medicine / Naomi Rogers --Self-help and the patent medicine business / Susan E. Cayleff --Charismatic women and health / Jonathan M. Butler, Rennie B. Schoepflin --Knowledge and power / Martha H. Verbrugge --Women's health and public policy / Molly Ladd-Taylor --Women's toxic experience / Anthony Bale --Midwives and history / Judy Barrett Litoff --Nurses / Ellen D. Baer --Physicians / Regina Morantz-Sanchez --Pharmacists / Gregory J. Higby. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers PW1031
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Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Fine. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 55088479-6
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Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3372019-20
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Anbieter: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3372019-20
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Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0670869899I4N00
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Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0670869899I4N00
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Anbieter: Alhambra Books, Edmonton, AB, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 198 pp, index. Remainder mark bottom edge. Light edgewear. Interior clean and tight. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 012494
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Anbieter: JB Books, Garrison, ND, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. The author presents his 'primer' on the hazards and dangers of future genetic manipulation, the moral and ethical issues, the possibilities that humanity may effectively erase itself, much more. Hardcover with dust jacket, notes, bibliography, indexed,198pp., remainders mark. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival protector. Rare. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00008351
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Anbieter: Aragon Books Canada, OTTAWA, ON, Kanada
Zustand: New. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers RCBE--0238
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