Exploding The Gene Myth

Author : Ruth Hubbard
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807004319
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploding the Gene Myth written by Ruth Hubbard and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers

Author : Robert G. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473080501
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploding the Myth of Genetic Engineering written by Robert G. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Craig Holdrege
Publisher : Lindisfarne Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetics and the Manipulation of Life written by Craig Holdrege and published by Lindisfarne Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative work that challenges our common assumptions about nature and science, this book is for all who want to understand the biological revolution of the late twentieth century. In this clearly written, well-illustrated book, Holdrege describes, using fascinating examples, how living organisms develop and exist within the context of their environments. In an age when we are able to reshape life on earth, this book offers a deeper, more complex vision of nature, one that can help us establish a more conscious and responsible connection to the world around us.

Author : Benjamin Ginsberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442222387
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Jews Defeated Hitler written by Benjamin Ginsberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted the Germans but actually played a major role in the defeat of Nazi Germany. The question, he contends, is not whether the Jews fought but where and by what means. True, many Jews were poorly armed, outnumbered, and without resources, but Ginsberg shows persuasively that this myth of passivity is solely that--a myth. Instead, the Jews resisted strongly in four key ways: through their leadership role in organizing the defense of the Soviet Union, their influence and scientific research in the United States, their contribution to allied espionage and cryptanalysis, and their importance in European resistance movements. In this compelling, cogent history, we discover that Jews contributed powerfully to Hitler's defeat.

Author : Gregory Stock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195133021
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering the Human Germline written by Gregory Stock and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A final section of short essays by lawyers, theologians, scientists and ethicists bring us a broader perspective on the core issues surrounding this debate: What would we do if this technology were safe and reliable? What are the concerns about its widespread use? How would such intervention be regulated? Would we be willing to genetically alter our own children given the possibility? Should we have this choice?"--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John Robbins
Publisher : H J Kramer
ISBN 13 : 9780915811809
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Our Health written by John Robbins and published by H J Kramer. This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author calls for a revolution in health care, criticizing its hostility to alternative medicine and its bias against women.

Author : Sheldon Krimsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071093
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetic Explanations written by Sheldon Krimsky and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer’s, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for a life of crime? Yes, according to the Internet, a few scientific studies, and some in the biotechnology industry who should know better. Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber gather a team of genetic experts to argue that treating genes as the holy grail of our physical being is a patently unscientific endeavor. Genetic Explanations urges us to replace our faith in genetic determinism with scientific knowledge about how DNA actually contributes to human development. The concept of the gene has been steadily revised since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. No longer viewed by scientists as the cell’s fixed set of master molecules, genes and DNA are seen as a dynamic script that is ad-libbed at each stage of development. Rather than an autonomous predictor of disease, the DNA we inherit interacts continuously with the environment and functions differently as we age. What our parents hand down to us is just the beginning. Emphasizing relatively new understandings of genetic plasticity and epigenetic inheritance, the authors put into a broad developmental context the role genes are known to play in disease, behavior, evolution, and cognition. Rather than dismissing genetic reductionism out of hand, Krimsky and Gruber ask why it persists despite opposing scientific evidence, how it influences attitudes about human behavior, and how it figures in the politics of research funding.

Author : E. Richard Gold
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780878406616
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body Parts written by E. Richard Gold and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Body Parts, E. Richard Gold examines whether the body and materials derived from it--such as human organs and DNA--should be thought of as market commodities and subject to property law. Analyzing a series of court decisions concerning property rights, Gold explores whether the language and assumptions of property law can help society determine who has rights to human biological materials. Gold observes that the commercial opportunities unleashed by advances in biotechnology present a challenge to the ways that society has traditionally valued the human body and human health. In a balanced discussion of both commercial and individual perspectives, Gold asserts the need to understand human biological materials within the context of human values, rather than economic interests. This perceptive book will be welcomed by scholars and other professionals engaged in questions regarding bioethics, applied ethics, the philosophy of value, and property and intellectual property rights. Given the international aspects of both intellectual property law and biotechnology, this book will be of interest throughout the world and especially valuable in common-law (most English-speaking) countries.

Author : Harold W. Baillie
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262524285
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is Human Nature Obsolete? written by Harold W. Baillie and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary exploration of whether modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future.

Author : Rictor Norton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474286925
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth of the Modern Homosexual written by Rictor Norton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With careful reasoning supported by wide-ranging scholarship, this study exposes the fallacies of 'social constructionist' theories within lesbian and gay studies and makes a forceful case for the autonomy of queer identity and culture. It presents evidence that queers are part of a centuries-old history, possessing a unified historical and cultural identity. The volume reviews the fundamental historiographical issues about the nature of queer history, arguing that a new generation of queer historians will need to abandon authoritarian dogma founded upon politically-correct ideology rather than historical experience. Norton offers a clear exposition of the evidence for ancient, indigenous and pre-modern queer cultural continuity, revealing how knowledge of that history has been suppressed and censored and sets out the 'queer cultural essentialist' position on the key topics of queer history – role, identity, bisexuality, orientation, linguistics, social control, homophobia, subcultures, and kinship patterns.