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  • Rage in the Belly

    Hunger in the New Testament

    by Luzia Sutter Rehmann ...
    Translated by Monica Buckland ...
    How is rage related to hunger? Hunger is a liminal experience, connected to powerlessness, shame, and violence. Hunger does not issue into speech. It cannot therefore be easily found in the biblical texts, written by (and about) people who knew hunger. It hides behind the words in these texts. Rage, conversely, finds expression; and in the texts, it can alert readers to hidden experiences of ... Read more

    $26.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Patient's Wish to Die

    Research, Ethics, and Palliative Care

    Edited by Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Heike Gudat, Kathrin Ohnsorge ...
    Wish to die statements are becoming a frequent phenomenon in terminally ill patients. Those confronted by these statments need to understand the complexity of such wishes, so they can respond competently and compassionately to the requests. If misunderstood, the statements can be taken at face-value and the practitioner may not recognise that a patient is in fact experiencing ambivalent feelings ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Genes in Development

    Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    In light of scientific advances such as genomics, predictive diagnostics, genetically engineered agriculture, nuclear transfer cloning, and the manipulation of stem cells, the idea that genes carry predetermined molecular programs or blueprints is pervasive. Yet new scientific discoveries—such as rna transcripts of single genes that can lead to the production of different compounds from the same ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability

    New Bodies for a Better Life

    Edited by M. Eilers, K. Grüber, C. Rehmann-Sutter ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex relationship between enhancement and impairment, showing that the study of disability offers new ways of thinking about the social and ethical implications of improving the human condition. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Disclosure Dilemmas

    Ethics of Genetic Prognosis after the 'Right to Know/Not to Know' Debate

    by Hansjakob Müller ...
    Series series Medical Law and Ethics
    There exists today a fast growing availability of personal genetic information. Its prognostic impact and value for an individual or family member's health is sometimes unclear, whilst at other times it is clear-cut. The issue of whether to disclose genetic information does however have wide ranging implications. Avoiding the rhetoric of 'genetic exceptionalism', and drawing on an expanded field ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Governing Future Technologies

    Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime

    Edited by Mario Kaiser, Monika Kurath, Sabine Maasen, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Nanotechnology has been the subject of extensive ‘assessment hype,’ unlike any previous field of research and development. A multiplicity of stakeholders have started to analyze the implications of nanotechnology: Technology assessment institutions around the world, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, re-insurance companies, and academics from science and technology studies and applied ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Stem Cell Transplantations Between Siblings as Social Phenomena

    The Child’s Body and Family Decision-making

    Edited by Christina Schües, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Martina Jürgensen, Madeleine Herzog ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book offers insights in short- and long-term experiences from families with bone marrow transplantations between minor siblings. It is based on the first extended qualitative study with 17 families about experiences with recent transplants and experiences with transplants up to 20 years in the past. It covers reflections of donors, recipients and other family members, as well as ... Read more

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    How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus

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  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    by Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The First Paul

    Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon

    by Marcus J. Borg, John Dominic Crossan ...
    “Borg and Crossan reveal a figure who, besides being neither anti-Semitic, anti-sex, nor misogynist, stresses social and political equality among Christians and between them and others. A refreshing and heartening exculpation of a still routinely maligned figure of the first importance to culture and civilization.” — Booklist (starred review)John Dominic Crossan and Marcus J. Borg—two of the world ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

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  • The Gospel of Judas, Second Edition

    Edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, Gregor Wurst ...
    For 1,600 years its message lay hidden. When the bound papyrus pages of this lost gospel finally reached scholars who could unlock its meaning, they were astounded. Here was a gospel that had not been seen since the early days of Christianity, and which few experts had even thought existed–a gospel told from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, history's ultimate traitor. And far from being a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Entrepreneurship

    A New Perspective

    by Thomas Grebel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Competition
    The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing. Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and network dynamics which discuss certain perspectives of entrepreneurial behaviour. This insightful book closes this gap in entrepreneurship literature. Inspired by modern physics, author Thomas Grebel brings together an evolutionary ... Read more

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