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The Scientific, Clinical and Commercial Development of the Stem Cell: From Radiobiology to Regenerative Medicine
By Alison Kraft
This book offers timely and novel insights on the development of what may be the most important medical technology of the twenty-first century. It is the first academic book to document the emergence of the stem cell as an icon of modern medicine and science, which also offers a critical analysis...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-44993-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Barcoding Nature: Shifting Taxonomic Practices in an Age of Biodiversity Loss
By Claire Waterton, Rebecca Ellis, Brian Wynne
This book is based on six years of ethnographic research and documentary analysis carried out by the authors, on changing contemporary practices in the identification and the classification of natural species. It assumes from the outset that the practices of knowing nature observed cannot be...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-55479-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Artificial Intelligence: The Basics
By Kevin Warwick
Artificial Intelligence: The Basics is a concise and jargon-free introduction to the fast moving world of AI. Examining the modern origins of artificial intelligence, this book explores issues of what it means to be man or machine and looks at advances in robotics which have blurred the boundaries....
May 2011 | 978-0-415-56483-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Genetic Testing: Accounts of Autonomy, Responsibility and Blame
By Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Srikant Sarangi, Angus Clarke
Firmly grounded in empirical data, this book critically engages with the relational, moral and ethical issues surrounding genetic testing in contemporary society. Competing accounts of autonomy, responsibility and blame – by families, by professionals and in the public sphere – are analyzed...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-47443-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change
Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones
This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what?...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-61320-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The Making of a Syndrome: The Case of Rett Syndrome
By Katie Featherstone, Paul Atkinson
This monograph is a contribution to the growing literature on genetic medicine. Based on original ethnographic research with scientists, clinicians and families, we use our examination of one particular condition (Rett syndrome) to illuminate more general issues concerning the construction and...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-49665-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Network Governance of Global Religions: Jerusalem, Rome, and Mecca
By Michel S. Laguerre
This study seeks to explain three models of network governance embedded in digital practices that the mainstream monotheistic religions—Judaism, Catholic Christianity, and Islam—have used to lead and manage the worldwide distribution of their local nodes, exploring the connection between network...
January 2011 | 978-0-415-88879-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Politics of Knowledge
Edited by PATRICK BAERT, Fernando Domínguez Rubio
In the age of biotechnology, new communication technologies and information economies, the traditional boundaries and categories of the political are being rapidly redefined. Modern political categories like the 'nation-state' seem to be increasingly ill-suited to understand the flows of capital,...
January 2011 | 978-0-415-49710-7 | Hardback (Routledge)