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  • Audiolibro

    The Basement

    de Alan Petersen ...
    Narrado por Vanessa Johansson, George Newbern ...

    Completo

    7 hora

    What happened in the basement?When Cassie Walsh returns to her small Minnesota hometown for her mother's funeral, she intends to leave as quickly as possible. But a shocking discovery in the basement freezer of her childhood home changes everything.The discovery of the body of Cassie's long-lost teenage crush in her mother's chest freezer shatters her world and forces her to confront a buried ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Pandemic Societies

    A Critical Public Health Perspective

    de Alan Petersen ...
    From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak presents new challenges but the responses are often similar.This important book explores the dimensions, dynamics and implications of emerging pandemic societies. Drawing on ideas from sociology and science and technology studies, it sheds new light on how pandemics ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Emotions Online

    Feelings and Affordances of Digital Media

    de Alan Petersen ...
    Digital media have become deeply immersed in our lives, heightening both hopes and fears of their affordances. While the internet, mobile phones, and social media offer their users many options, they also engender concerns about their manipulations and intrusions. Emotions Online explores the visions that shape responses to media and the emotional regimes that govern people’s engagements with them ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Digital Health and Technological Promise

    A Sociological Inquiry

    de Alan Petersen ...
    What is ‘digital health’? And, what are its implications for medicine and healthcare, and for individual citizens and society? ‘Digital health’ is of growing interest to policymakers, clinicians, and businesses. It is underpinned by promise and optimism, with predictions that digital technologies and related innovations will soon ‘transform’ medicine and healthcare, and enable individuals to ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Politics of Bioethics

    de Alan Petersen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Recent rapid advances in the biosciences have led to considerable debate about the social, ethical, and legal implications of research and its applications. The mapping of the human genome, advances in cloning techniques, the harvesting of embryonic stem cells for research, increasing use of genetic testing in healthcare, and the development of large-scale genetic databases have not only generated ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • The Body in Question

    A Socio-Cultural Approach

    de Alan Petersen ...
    Why is there currently such strong academic and popular interest in ‘the body’ in contemporary societies? What factors shape our conceptions of the body, its naturalness, health and normality? What is the mind-body dualism and why should it matter?This book examines these and other body questions from a critical socio-cultural perspective. In particular, it shows how conceptions of the body are ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope

    de Alan Petersen, Megan Munsie, Claire Tanner, Casimir MacGregor, Jane Brophy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a unique and innovative perspective on the controversial phenomenon of ‘stem cell tourism’. A growing number of patients are embarking on stem cell treatments that are clinically unproven and yet available in clinics and hospitals around the world. The authors offer a cutting-edge multi-dimensional perspective on this complex and rapidly changing phenomenon, including an ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Tarkine Mist

    de D. Alan Petersen ...
    We have two lives. The second begins when we realise we only have one.For Julius Tiberius Banks, a health crisis at thirty-two ends his first. In his second, he wants a better reason forbeing than the mountain of cash and the calculating trophy wife he'd gathered in the first.Progress is made, but less than two years later, his fleeting vision of that new life is stymied. Unknown people want him ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy

    de Ian Barns, Janice Dudley, Patricia Harris, Alan Petersen ...
    Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy shows how poststructuralist ideas can be usefully applied in the areas of welfare, health, education and science and technology policy, making particular reference to the theme of citizenship.The impact of poststructuralism on thinking in the social sciences and humanities over the last decade has been profound. However, to date, there has been ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The New Genetics and The Public's Health

    de Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen ...
    The rapid advancement of genetic science, fuelled by the Human Genome Project and other related initiatives, promises a new kind of public health practice based on the pre-detection of disease according to calculations of genetic risk. This book by two well-known sociologists:* explores the implications of the new genetics for public health as a body of knowledge and a domain of practice* assesses ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Continuity and Discontinuity (Essays in Honor of S. Lewis Johnson, Jr.)

    Perspectives on the Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments

    de John S. Feinberg, John S. Feinberg, Rodney Petersen, Willem A. VanGemeren, O. Palmer Robertson, Paul D. Feinberg, Fred H. Klooster, Alan P. Ross, Knox Chamblin0, Douglas J. Moo1, Marten H. Woudstra2, Robert L. Saucy3, Bruce K. Waltke4, Walter C. Kaiser Jr.5, John A. Sproule6, Sam Storms7 ...
    Perspectives on the relationship between the Old and New Testaments as they concern theological systems, Mosaic law, salvation, hermeneutics, the people of God, and kingdom promises. From a respected group of modern theologians. ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Genetic Governance

    Health, Risk and Ethics in a Biotech Era

    Edición de Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen ...
    Ethical and practical issues around genetic research are of major international concern, both in academia and in the public domain. Questions concerning what interventions are possible and appropriate with the increasing amount of genetic information available, challenge our understandings of ourselves, our health and wellbeing, and the role of medical ethics, public health, surveillance and risk. ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD