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  • ICT Performance and Robustness Investigations:

    Nova Science Publishers Inc ICT Performance and Robustness Investigations:

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    Book SynopsisThere is, in general, no doubt regarding the ethical and human behaviour aspects of the research work of any type. The researchers are thought of working for society and are low paid. However, in the practice of science and technology, they should work, first of all, for system designers who need their support in designing, developing and implementing the systems under investigation. Unfortunately, this is not a popular case in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), where the support of the system and network researchers for the system and network designers, developers and operators is very limited. Considering that, the team of authors of the book (the team) decided to present the design experiences gained during designing, implementing and operating some line of the computer systems and networks in Poland (the country). The country was selected purposefully: Due to the political reasons, various embargos were imposed on the importation of modern equipment and methods of the computer industry, and the team needed very severely good support from the researchers to fulfil the design and development tasks successfully. However, in the ICT domain, which is a relatively new study and, thus, needing the significant support of science in every country, this support was a minute one in practice. In well developed countries, possessing a surplus of hardware and software components, the need for the support was also observed but could be bypassed through using a surplus of supplies or by learning from the design errors. This bypass was much less available in the country in severe economic conditions and the political conditions of the so-called Cold War. The objective of this book is to present the line of the ICT systems and networks under design and operation from the late 1960s and finishing when this book was written, and to present the requirements for the system and the basic support available from this science. The research aspects under consideration were, first of all, the performance evaluation and, for the systems of the 21st century, the robustness evaluation, with the system designers, implementers and operators being the ideal audience.Table of ContentsPreface; Ethics and Human Behaviour (HB); The Approach to Ethics and Human Behaviour Assessment; A Line of ICT Systems and Networks Designed and Developed in Wroclaw, Poland; The Line of the Emerging ICT Systems under Performance Investigation; Robust Design of Computer Control Systems; Case Studies of Ethics and Human Behaviour under Investigation: The Line of the ICT Systems and Networks; Conclusions; About the Authors; Index.

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  • Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a

    NewSouth Publishing Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a

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    Book SynopsisIt's humanity's make-or-break-century.In breathtakingly original prose, Elise Bohan argues that we're hurtling towards a superhuman future — or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons, novel and bioengineered pathogens and unaligned AI, is up. We'll need more technology to safeguard our future — and we're going to invent (and perhaps even merge with) some of that technology.What does that mean for our 20th century life-scripts? Are the robots coming for our jobs? How will human relationships change when AI knows us inside out? Will we still be having human babies by the century's end? Bohan unflinchingly explores possibilities most of us are afraid to imagine: the impacts of automation on our jobs, livelihoods and dating and mating careers, the stretching out of 'the-circle-of-life' as life-extension technologies mature, the rise of AI friends and lovers, the liberation of women from pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, and the impending global baby-bust – and attendant proliferation of digital minds.Strap in for an exhilarating, and starkly honest, take on the promise and peril of life in the 21st century.

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  • Ned Atlas de Ia

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  • Penguin Putnam Inc How to Be Animal

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  • Interplanetary Liberty Building Free Societies in

    Oxford University Press Interplanetary Liberty Building Free Societies in

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    Book SynopsisCharles S. Cockell argues that beyond Earth, space is especially tyranny-prone. Yet rather than consign humanity to a dim future of extraterrestrial despotisms, he suggests that the construction of free societies is possible using uniquely blended and reformulated classical liberal ideas for the space frontier.Trade ReviewThis is a brilliant and compelling book, written with great knowledge and understanding. * ANTHONY PAGDEN, Professor of political science and history at the University of California, Los Angeles and author of The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters *If you have ever thought about the future of humanity in outer space, this book should be very high on your list. * FRANS VON DER DUNK, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Research Professor at the Lazarski University, Warsaw and author of The Handbook of Space Law *Can classical liberal political theories prevent tyranny and despotism in space? This is the central question that is compellingly examined in this fascinating book. * SASKIA VERMEYLEN, Reader in Law, Law School, University of Strathclyde, Scotland *This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in the broader philosophical questions of human space exploration. * CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN, Professor of Space Law and Policy at Northumbria University *This is an important book for building our future in space. * MARTIN ELVIS, Astrophysicist and author of Asteroids: How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space *Interplanetary Liberty offers an engaging exploration of liberal political thought applied to human space expansion, and in so doing provides a much-needed examination of the scope and fitness of democratic principles of governance for prospective space societies. * JAMES SCHWARTZ, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wichita State University and author of The Value of Science in Space Exploration *Table of ContentsPreface 1: Liberty on the space frontier 2: The causes of extraterrestrial tyranny 3: Building free societies in the cosmos 4: Dissent and welfare 5: The development of science and liberty 6: Engineering liberty 7: Art and liberty 8: Educating the free citizen 9: Justice and criminality in the free society 10: A free cosmos

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  • Distrust Big Data DataTorturing and the Assault

    Oxford University Press Distrust Big Data DataTorturing and the Assault

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    Book SynopsisThis book argues that our growing distrust of science is fuelled by tools scientists themselves created, as technological advances and developments in data analysis have led to disinformation, data torturing, and data mining. Smith examines these issues and offers solutions for restoring the credibility of the scientific community.Trade ReviewGary Smith has done it again. Distrust is a wild ride that derails the Big Data hype train with force, style, and above all sardonic humour. Smith is a master of illustrating by example-examples that are fresh, unexpected, at times shocking, and at times hilarious. Come along on Smith's tour of statistical snake-oil and you'll never look at AI or data science the same way again. * Carl T. Bergstrom, Professor of Biology, University of Washington. Author of Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Digital World *Any fan of Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World will love this book. Like Sagan, Smith discusses the challenges to human progress that result from a lack of critical thinking skills, and he does so with a Sagan-esque keen eye and eloquent voice. Smith also makes clear how the threats to sound judgment and effective decisions are more formidable than those of Sagan's day, as faulty thinking is now aided and abetted by an internet-fuelled distrust of science, viral misinformation, and venomous conspiracy theories. The wisdom in this book is desperately needed. * Tom Gilovich, Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology, Cornell University. Author of The Wisest One in the Room *It turns out that, unlike the mythical hero, AI has two Achilles' heels. Not only are the technologies not intelligent, more perniciously, neither are too much of the statistics and data use on which AI and big data rely. Gary Smith provides a brilliantly executed counter against pseudo-science and the accumulating garbage we misleadingly call information, including timely and important warnings and ways forward for policy-makers, practitioners, academics, and citizens alike. * Leslie Willcocks, Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics and Political Science *An immensely readable look at why we need science more than ever, but also why and how science needs to clean up its act. Recommended for anyone who occasionally wonders whether that 'outspoken' family member on Facebook might just have a point. * Nick Brown, PhD, scientific integrity researcher *Smith marvellously illustrates the evolution of disinformation. He richly demonstrates how blind faith in technology enables more misrepresentations of the truth. Distrust articulates a humbling view of how we should think critically about new findings from hyped technology trends. * Karl Meyer, Managing Director, Digital Alpha Advisors LLC and former Partner at Kleiner Perkins *The lessons of Distrust are very much needed. * Washington Post *Distrust is a veritable page-turner, and I finished it in a few sittings. On a higher level, it is a call for common sense, for scepticism, for methodological rigour and for epistemic modesty. I suspect most scientists will love it. * Nature *Meta Malcolm Gladwell fans will likely enjoy. * Library Journal *The book is great fun. It's lovely to watch Smith demolish the fraud in every medium. * The Straight Dope *Using a wide range of entertaining examples, this fascinating book examines the impacts of society's growing distrust of science, and ultimately provides constructive suggestions for restoring the credibility of the scientific community. * Campaign for the American Reader *Smith's Distrust is a strikingly readable exploration of several interrelated threats to the credibility of science...The book can serve as both a guide to helping readers better spot bogus scientifc claims and a warning as to the individual and institutional failings that threaten the credibility of science. * Keith Raymond Harris, Metascience *Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science is a highly recommended book for anyone interested about current, and future, issues related to what science is and how it is done. * K. Kampourakis, Science & Education *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Disinformation, Data Torturing, and Data Mining Part I - Disinformation 1: The Paranormal Is Normal 2: Flying Saucers and Space Tourists 3: Elite Conspiracies 4: A Post-Fact World Part II - Data Torturing 5: Squeezing Blood from Rocks 6: Most Medicines Disappoint 7: Provocative, but Wrong Part III - Data Mining 8: Looking for Needles in Haystacks 9: Beat the Market 10: Too Much Data Part IV - The Real Promise and Peril of AI 11: Overpromising and Underdelivering 12: Artificial Unintelligence Part V - The Crisis 13: Irreproducible Research 14: The Replication Crisis 15: Restoring the Luster of Science

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  • What Is Agriculture For

    Oxford University Press What Is Agriculture For

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  • Future Politics

    Oxford University Press Future Politics

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    Book SynopsisFuture Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by the state and what should be left to the market and civil society. In the future, the question will be how far our lives should be directed and controlled by powerful digital systems - and on what terms? Jamie Susskind argues that rapid and relentless innovation in a range of technologies - from artificial intelligence to virtual reality - will transform the way we live together. Calling for a fundamental change in the way we think about politics, he describes a world in which certain technologies and platforms, and those who control them, come to hold great power over us. Some will gather data about our lives, causing us to avoid conduct perceived as shameful, sinful, or wrong. Others will filter our perception of the world, choosing what we know, shaping what we think, affecting how we feel, and guiding how we act. Still others will force us to behave certain ways, like self-driving cars that refuse to drive over the speed limit. Those who control these technologies - usually big tech firms and the state - will increasingly control us. They will set the limits of our liberty, decreeing what we may do and what is forbidden. Their algorithms will resolve vital questions of social justice, allocating social goods and sorting us into hierarchies of status and esteem. They will decide the future of democracy, causing it to flourish or decay. A groundbreaking work of political analysis, Future Politics challenges readers to rethink what it means to be free or equal, what it means to have power or property, what it means for a political system to be just or democratic, and proposes ways in which we can - and must - regain control.Trade ReviewThe most interesting exploration yet of the political realities in the digital era. * Matthew d'Ancona, Books of the Year 2018, Evening Standard *For all its grand implications, Future Politics is an accessible read, peppered with self-deprecating humour and pop cultural references throughout, and will make you only more curious about the road ahead. * Martin Coulter, Business Insider, 18 books to read in 2020 that puncture Silicon Valley utopianism *He steers a course to the future that is as convincing as it is shocking. * Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times *[Susskind] has tremendous talent and the book is very readable. * Tim Stanley, The Telegraph *An impressive feat of intellectual organization ... To have written it all down so lucidly, engagingly and succinctly is a formidable achievement. * Raphael Behr, The Guardian *The tone of this book is as refreshing as the originality of insight. Susskind contends that "that there are causes for both optimism and pessimism, but what the future requires above all is vigilance". * Paschal Donohoe, The Irish Times *Future Politics is a riveting book that sparkles with great ideas ... It is chock full of facts and the book combines knowledge of politics and technology in a unique and fascinating way. * Catherine Balavage, Frost *A work of clarity and effortless genius which is a must for anybody seeking to understand the impact of modern technology on our body politic now and in the future. * Robert Rinder, Evening Standard *Superb and necessary book. * Nick Cohen, The Observer *Future Politics should be essential reading for those with the will to anticipate the future challenges facing defence and society. * Wavell Room *Brilliant ... detailed research, colourful examples, and a pacy, upbeat style ... Future Politics will remain relevant for several years. All elected officials should read it as a matter of urgency. * Jamie Bartlett, Catholic Herald *'Future Politics' challenges readers to rethink what it means to be free or equal, what it means to have power or property, what it means for a political system to be just or democratic, and proposes ways in which we can - and must - regain control. This is no less than a call for a fundamental change in the way we think about politics. * Dominic Lenton, Engineering & Technology *... rigorous and thoughtful book ... * David Patrikarakos, Literary Review *A must-read for anyone interested in the great political debate of the 21st century: how will digital technology transform society and politics? Susskind approaches the debate with both the expertise of a lawyer and a deep understanding of the digital world. * Included in Derek Mooney's "My Summer Political Reading List", Broadsheet *Original and thought-provoking, this ground-breaking book challenges us to develop new policies for new times. * Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 2007-2010 *Few understand politics. Even fewer understand technology. Susskind is that rare soul who understands both - and more importantly, how the latter will change the former. Whether correct or not - and I believe he is correct - there is no better glimpse into our shared future than this book. * Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School *This book crackles with ideas, sparking new thoughts with every page. And it is superbly organised, too. It's difficult to help people understand the past, but to help understand the future is a real achievement. Terrific. * Lord Finkelstein, Associate Editor, The Times *From Arendt to artificial intelligence, from Machiavelli to machine learning, Susskind seamlessly weaves modern technology with classic theory to present a tour de force introduction to the future--explaining with erudition and humor the powerful digital systems that will govern our lives. * Beth Simone Noveck, Professor in Technology, Culture and Society, New York University Tandon School of Engineering *Only an elite can control the power of computation, dispersed in space, integrated in the cloud, and enabled to operate on ever bigger data. What are the implications for freedom, democracy, and justice? Jamie Susskind offers a pathbreaking exploration of the challenge that these issues pose for our political thinking and practice. It's a must-read. * Philip Pettit, L. S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University, and Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. THE DIGITAL LIFEWORLD 1: Increasingly Capable Systems 2: Increasingly Integrated Technology 3: Increasingly Quantified Society 4: Thinking Like a TheoristPart II. FUTURE POWER 5: Code is Power 6: Force 7: Scrutiny 8: Perception-Control 9: Public and Private PowerPart III. FUTURE LIBERTY 10: Freedom and the Supercharged State 11: Freedom and the Tech FirmPart IV. FUTURE DEMOCRACY 12: The Dream of Democracy 13: Democracy in the FuturePart V. FUTURE JUSTICE 14: Algorithms of Distribution 15: Algorithms of Recognition 16: Algorithmic Injustice 17: Technological Unemployment 18: The Wealth CyclonePart VI. FUTURE POLITICS 19: Transparency and the New Separation of Powers 20: Post-Politics

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  • Bioprediction Biomarkers and Bad Behavior Scientific Legal and Ethical Challenges Oxford Series in Neuroscience Law and Philosophy

    Oxford University Press Inc Bioprediction Biomarkers and Bad Behavior Scientific Legal and Ethical Challenges Oxford Series in Neuroscience Law and Philosophy

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    Book SynopsisMany decisions in the legal system and elsewhere depend on predictions of bad behaviors, including crimes and mental illnesses. Some scientists have suggested recently that these predictions can become more accurate and useful if they are based in part on biological information, such as brain structure and function, genes, and hormones. The prospect of such bioprediction, however, raises serious concerns about errors and injustice. Can biological information significantly increase the accuracy of predictions of bad behavior? Will innocent or harmless people be mistakenly treated as if they were guilty or dangerous? Is it fair to keep people in prisons or mental institutions longer because of their biology? Will these new instruments of bioprediction be abused in practice within current institutions? Is bioprediction worth the cost? Do we want our government to use biology in this way? All of these scientific, legal, and ethical questions are discussed in this volume. The contributors aTable of ContentsForeword ; Philip Campbell ; Contributors ; 1. Introduction: Deviance, classification and bio-prediction ; Ilina Singh and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ; 2. Behavioural Biomarkers: What Are They Good For? Towards the Ethical Use of Biomarkers ; Matthew Baum and Julian Savulescu ; 3. Bioprediction in Youth Justice ; Charlotte Walsh ; 4. The Inclusion of Biological Risk Factors in Violence Risk Assessments ; John Monahan ; 5. Bioprediction in Criminal Cases ; Christopher Slobogin ; 6.The Limits of Legal Use of Neuroscience ; Colin Campbell and Nigel Eastman ; 7. Rethinking the Implications of Discovering Biomarkers for Biologically-Based Criminality ; Paul Root Wolpe ; 8. MAOA and the Bioprediction of Antisocial Behavior: Science Fact and Science Fiction ; Joshua W. Buckholtz and Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg ; 9. Genetic biomarker research of callous-unemotional traits in children: Implications for the law and policy making ; Essi Viding and Ewan McCrory ; 10. The neural code for intentions in the human brain ; John Dylan-Haynes ; 11. Biomarkers: Potential and challenges ; Michael Rutter ; 12. Neuroimaging-based Automatic Classification of Schizophrenia ; Vince D. Calhoun and Mohammad R. Arbabshirania

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  • The University of Chicago Press Tangled Diagnoses Prenatal Testing Women and

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    Book SynopsisA history of prenatal testing that shows it to be more complicated than a simple medical advance, bringing with it a host of questions about ethics and responsibility.

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  • Pennsylvania State University Press Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination

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    Book SynopsisIllustrates how the discovery of electromagnetism in 1820 not only led to technological inventions, such as the dynamo and the telegraph, but also legitimized modes of reasoning that manifested a sharper ability to perceive how metonymic relations could reveal the order of things.Trade Review“A fascinating and convincing argument that treats the notion of magnetism in an original way. It will become indispensable reading for cultural historians who are interested in the connections between science and the broader literary or social culture in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.”—David Bell,author of Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola“With its uncluttered prose and careful explications of thorny debates and esoteric philosophies, Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination brings precision to a sometimes fuzzy field of interdisciplinary inquiry. Literary scholars will learn much from this book’s cogent analyses, not only about the long history of magnetism, from the sixth-century Aetius of Amida to today’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology, but also about how that history has been deeply intertwined with—and marked by—literary reconceptions of imaginative thought.”—Andrea Goulet Nineteenth-Century French Studies“Murphy contributes to ongoing studies on the “electric age” by convincingly demonstrating how electromagnetism drove conceptual and enduring changes in literary and scientific practices. Electromagnetic thinking, including the application of metonymic relations, revealed new ways of ordering and investigating the world. His comparative approach synthesizes electromagnetic analogies across discipline, genre, and national specificities.”—Kameron Sanzo The British Society for Literature and Science“By investigating the links between electricity and magnetism, Murphy uncovers forces that bind the natural and human sciences, literature and science, and analysis and creativity.”—Lindsey Grubbs Poe StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. (Electro-) Magnetic Chains2. Induction Apparatuses3. AutomataConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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  • Penn State University Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination 4 AnthropoScene The SLSA Book Series

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  • Pennsylvania State University Press The Evolution of Mathematics A Rhetorical

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    Book SynopsisApplies contemporary rhetorical analysis to mathematical discourse, calling into question the commonly held view that math equals truth. Explores how mathematical innovation has historically relied on rhetorical practices of making meaning, such as analogy, metaphor, and invention. Trade Review“Offering a translative resource for the chaos of that bonding and severing, strengthening and weakening, weaving and unraveling, The Evolution of Mathematics leaves no doubt that both dire consequences and dynamic possibilities are at stake in rhetoric’s ongoing confrontation and engagement with the mathematical realities of the world.”—Crystal Broch Colombini The Quarterly Journal of Speech“Certainly, one of the most incisive books published in 2022.”—Cliff Cunningham Sun News Austin“Reyes’s knowledge of and engagement with mathematics are breathtaking in scope. The Evolution of Mathematics is rhetorically engaging as it winds its way through the rabbit hole of mathematical philosophy, history, and technological innovation. Mathematicians will learn about the stakes of their invention and translation practices while rhetoricians will find yet another plane within which rhetoric functions and can be engaged and assessed.”—Catherine Chaput,author of Inside the Teaching Machine: Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University

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  • The End of Genetics

    Yale University Press The End of Genetics

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    Book SynopsisAn urgent plea for a broader understanding and awareness of the unconsidered dangers of new genetic technologiesTrade Review“Geneticist David B. Goldstein thinks that advances in human genomic sequencing and editing signal the end of present-day genetics. . . . An intriguing and disturbing book.”—NatureCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022“An essential antidote to hubris . . . a thought-provoking exploration of the limits of current knowledge and the power and perils of the coming genetic technologies.”—Olivia Judson, author of Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex“David Goldstein methodically describes the evolution of genetic technology, highlighting the potential quagmire if reproductive genomic design occurs before the thoughtful consideration of scientific limitations and ethical issues.”—Vandana Shashi, Duke University School of Medicine“Whether you agree or disagree, David Goldstein has provided an opinionated, clear-sighted, and ultimately compelling treatise on the moral imperative to mitigate congenital suffering.”—Greg Gibson, author of It Takes a Genome“The End of Genetics brings readers directly to the front lines of modern genetics, presenting a bold yet compelling vision of what the future holds. Already a pioneer in the history of modern genetics, David Goldstein is clearly shaping its future as well.”—Matthew Might, director, Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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  • As If Human

    Yale University Press As If Human

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  • Living Donor Organ Transplantation

    Taylor & Francis Living Donor Organ Transplantation

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  • Biotechnology Patents and Morality

    Taylor & Francis Biotechnology Patents and Morality

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  • The Frontlines of Artificial Intelligence Ethics

    Taylor & Francis The Frontlines of Artificial Intelligence Ethics

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  • The Frontlines of Artificial Intelligence Ethics

    Taylor & Francis Ltd The Frontlines of Artificial Intelligence Ethics

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  • The Ethics of Geoengineering the Global Climate

    Taylor & Francis The Ethics of Geoengineering the Global Climate

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  • Ethics for People Who Work in Tech

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethics for People Who Work in Tech

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  • University of California Press Reinventing the Wheel Volume 65 Milk Microbes and

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  • Gadget Consciousness

    Pluto Press Gadget Consciousness

    Book SynopsisInvestigates how electronic devices we use affect our consciousness, both as individuals and classes.Trade Review'Our obsession with gadgets is a key token of how deeply computer-based connection is now embedded in everyday life and consciousness. Joss Hands offers a highly thoughtful and theoretically astute reading of the possibilities for human reflexivity and agency that still remain' -- Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory, London School of Economics'A Swiss army knife of a book, unfolding tools to convert digital devices from exploitation and isolation to meaning and connection. Joss Hands gives us a handheld manifesto for gadget communism' -- Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths University of London'Takes the seemingly apolitical and trivial concept of 'the gadget' and transforms it into a fascinating path to explore not only the most recent phase of capitalist techno-fetishism, but also, with exemplary radical experimentalism, the blasphemous idea of 'gadget communism'' -- Nick Dyer-Witheford, University of Western OntarioTable of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Question Concerning Gadgets 2. Gadget Materialism 3. Gadget Brain 4. Gadget Consciousness 5. Gadget Action 6. Gadget Futures Bibliography Index

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  • The Struggle for Food Sovereignty

    Pluto Press The Struggle for Food Sovereignty

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    Book SynopsisA crucial exploration into the globally important struggles faced by peasant societies today.Trade Review'Cogently underscores the global threat of financialisation to family farming, identifying possibilities for peasant mobilisation to protect land, food and society. It breathes new life and meaning into the agrarian question.' -- Professor Philip McMichael, Cornell University, author of Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions (2013)'With historically unprecedented hunger sitting side by side with historically unprecedented obesity, it is apparent that the world food system is broken. As a result, around the world peasants and family farmers are struggling to construct a new, socially just, food system that cools the planet and feeds the world.' -- Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Professor, Department of International Development Studies, Trent University, CanadaTable of ContentsWorld Forum for Alternatives List of Abbreviations Introduction - Rémy Herrera and Kin Chi Lau 1. Theoretical Framework - Samir Amin 2. Latin America - João Pedro Stedile 3. Africa - Sam Moyo 4. Asia (I) - Erebus Wong and Jade Tsui Sit 5. Asia (II) - Utsa Patnaik 6. Oceania - Rémy Herrera and Poeura Tetoe 7. Europe - Gérard Choplin et al. Conclusion - Rémy Herrera and Kin Chi Lau References List of Contributors Index

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  • Faith and Charity  Religion and Humanitarian

    Pluto Press Faith and Charity Religion and Humanitarian

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    Book SynopsisAn innovative perspective on the relationship between religion, civil society and development through the prism of faith-based NGOs in West AfricaTrade Review'In this outstanding collection, familiar debates about the depoliticising effects of charity, the marketisation of civil society, and the ambiguities of religious networks are given fresh life' -- Jonathan Benthall, Honorary Resarch Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UCL, author of Islamic Charities and Islamic Humanism in Troubled Times (Manchester University Press, 2016)Table of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements List of Acronyms 1. Introduction: Faith, Charity and the Ethics of Volunteerism in West Africa - Marie Nathalie LeBlanc and Louis Audet Gosselin Part I: Religion, Politics and Development: NGO-isation and Religious Influence in the Twenty-First Century 2. Reflections on the Socio-Political Roles of Islamic NGOs in West Africa: Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso - Mathias Savadogo, Muriel Gomez-Perez and Marie Nathalie LeBlanc 3. Muslim NGOs in Côte d’Ivoire: Towards an Islamic Culture of Charity - Issouf Binaté 4. Catholic NGOs in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire: A Case Apart? - Louis Audet Gosselin and Boris Koenig Part II: Religious Actors and the Making of NGOs 5. Precarious Agency in the Face of ‘Good Governance’: The NGO-isation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Côte d’Ivoire - Marie Nathalie LeBlanc 6. Leaders of National and Transnational Muslim NGOs in Burkina Faso: Diverse Forms and Experiences of Islamic Civic Engagement - Kathéry Couillard, Frédérick Madore and Muriel Gomez-Perez 7. Private Evangelical Assistance to Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Burkina Faso: Religious Voluntarism and the Road to Success - Louis Audet Gosselin 8. From Local to Transnational Challenges: Religious Leaders and Muslim NGOs in Burkina Faso - Mara Vitale 9. Christian Citizenship, Evangelical NGOs and the Ethics of Holistic Rehabilitation among Socially Marginalised Groups in Côte d’Ivoire - Boris Koenig 10. Conclusion - Louis Audet Gosselin and Marie Nathalie LeBlanc Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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  • Models Simulations and Representations

    Taylor & Francis Models Simulations and Representations

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  • What are Stem Cells Definitions at the

    The University of Alabama Press What are Stem Cells Definitions at the

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    Book SynopsisIdentifies the moral stalemate between the rights of the embryo and the rights of the patient and uses it as the framework for a larger discussion about the role of definitions as a key rhetorical strategy in the debate. Importantly, this work recognises definitions as central to issues, not only within stem cell research, but in all argumentation.Trade ReviewAlthough bioethical issues surrounding stem cell research during the Bush and Obama administrations form a backdrop, Lynch (communication, Univ. of Cincinnati) is more concerned here with how language is used than with ethical positions. He presents definitions not so much as reflections of reality, but more as malleable tools for shaping public debate and policy. He introduces the idea of "scientistic idioms" to describe how various proponents and opponents of stem cell research incorporate the language of science to bolster their positions. Ironically, critics of stem cell research often use scientific idioms to challenge and undermine the authority of stem cell researchers. Lynch also frames his analysis in terms of a 'Manichean idiom' that presents stem cell research in terms of struggles between good and evil. For proponents of stem cell research, the Manichean idiom may take the form of scientific progress versus benighted religious or political agendas. Opponents may use the same idiom to contrast overreaching science with protection of human values. Lynch's analysis is useful for understanding not only debates over stem cell research, but also contentious issues such as teaching evolution in schools--a topic briefly addressed in the conclusion. Part of the 'Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique' series. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." —CHOICE

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  • Vanderbilt University Press Cyborgs Sexuality and the Undead

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  • Vanderbilt University Press Cyborgs Sexuality and the Undead

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  • Vanderbilt University Press A Laboratory of Her Own

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    Book SynopsisA Laboratory of Her Own: Women and Science in Spanish Culture gathers diverse voices to address women's interaction with STEM fields in the context of Spanish cultural production. This volume focuses on the many ways the arts and humanities provide avenues for deepening the conversation about how women have been involved in, excluded from, and represented within the scientific realm. While women's historic exclusion from STEM fields has received increased scrutiny worldwide in recent years, women within the Spanish context have been perhaps even more peripheral given the complex socio-cultural structures emanating from gender norms and political ideologies dominant in the Spanish nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Nonetheless, Spanish female cultural producers have long been engaged with science and technology within the cultural realm, as expressed in literature, art, film, and other areas. Spanish cultural production offers diverse representations of the relationships between womeTrade ReviewThis is a careful, cogent, fascinating, and well-researched collection of essays about the cultural, historical, and political contexts in which artists and authors interrogated STEM and gender themes in Spain. . . . A groundbreaking collection." - Mary Wyer, editor of Women, Science, and Technology (2014)Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Roberta Johnson Introduction 'The Story of Women and STEM in Spanish Culture' Victoria L. Ketz, Dawn Smith-Sherwood, & Debra Faszer-McMahon Part I: On Role Models: Female Scientists and Spanish Letters Chapter One 'Las chicas raras de STEM: Recuperating #WomensPlace in Spanish Literary and Scientific Histories' Dawn Smith-Sherwood Chapter Two '‘The Doctor Is In': Elena Arnedo Soriano (1941-2015), Women's Health, and the Cultural History of Gender and Medicine in Spain' Silvia BermÚdez Chapter Three 'Gender and the Critique of 'Ascientific Traditions': Science as Text and Intertext in Rosa Montero's La ridÍcula idea de no volver a verte' Ellen Mayock Chapter Four 'From la santidad de la escoba to la trinidad higiÉnica: Rosario de AcuÑa (1851-1923) and a More Inclusive Vision of Spain's Public Health Erika M. Sutherland Chapter Five 'Science, History, and Gender: An Interview with MarÍa JesÚs Santesmases' MarÍa JesÚs Santesmases, Victoria L. Ketz and Debra Faszer-McMahon Part II: On STE(A)M: Integrating Scientific Inquiry into the Cultural Realm Chapter Six 'Science in the Works of Clara JanÉs: A Poetics of Theoretical (Meta)physics' Debra Faszer-McMahon Chapter Seven 'An Extension of Sympathy: Science and Posthumanism in the Paintings of Remedios Varo' Marta del Pozo Ortea Chapter Eight 'Subversive, Combative, Corrective: Carmen de Burgos' Interventionist Translation of MÖbius' Űber den physiologischen Schwachsinn des Weibes [The Mental Inferiority of Women]' Leslie Anne Merced Chapter Nine 'Contrasting Images of Women Scientists in the Early Post-war Period (1940-45) and the Novel MarÍa Elena, ingeniero de caminos by Mercedes Ballesteros Miguel Soler Gallo Chapter Ten 'Unorthodox Theories and Beings: Science, Technology, and Women in the Narratives of Rosa Montero' Maryanne L. Leone Part III: On Gender: Using STEM to Critique Gendered Roles Chapter Eleven 'Biotech, BarcelÓ, Bustelo: Reproduction, Motherhood and Gendered Hierarchies in Spanish Science Fiction' Mirla GonzÁlez Chapter Twelve 'Challenging Boundaries of Time, Science, and Gender: Einstein's Theory of Relativity in Mayoral's ‘Admirados colegas'' Victoria L. Ketz Chapter Thirteen 'Technological Portrayals: Framing Fernandinas in the Colonial Context through Photography and Press during the Spanish Second Republic' InÉs Plasencia Chapter Fourteen 'Punishing Narratives: The Challenges of Gender and Scientific Authority in Spanish Science Fiction Film' Raquel Vega-DurÁn Chapter Fifteen 'Rethinking STEM through Digital Spanish Literature: Women, Rupture, and Community in the Works of Remedios Zafra and BelÉn Gache' Parissa Tadrissi Appendix: List of Works by Genre Addressed in this Volume Index

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  • Vanderbilt University Press A Laboratory of Her Own

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  • Berghahn Books identitypoliticsandthenewgenetics

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    Book SynopsisRacial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics, and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity.Trade Review “This wide-ranging, international collection considers many of the practical, ethical and political questions raised by the proliferation of genetic research and testing around the world…Almost all of the chapters deal in a sophisticated way with questions about how ideas of identity, race, and kinship are being shaped by their interaction with genetic technologies and the way those technologies are being interpreted.” · Contemporary Sociology. A Journal of Reviews “Overall, the book successfully highlights the complex and often contradictory nature of the relationship between politics and science…[It]offers an original contribution to debates on identity, race and genetics…The overall strength of the collection (as the editors argue) lies in its use of a range of rich and illuminating case studies from locations across the globe.” · Ethnic and Racial Studies “This is an important and extremely timely collection that will inform ongoing and evolving discussions within the social sciences and beyond about the changing relationship between identity and genomics. It captures and contributes to an emerging moment in social science engagement with genomics and issues of identity and the politics of difference.” · Sahra Gibbon, University College LondonTable of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Ideas in Motion: Making Sense of Identity After DNA Katharina Schramm, David Skinner, Richard Rottenburg Chapter 1. ‘Race’ as a Social Construction in Genetics Andrew Smart, Richard Tutton, Paul Martin, George Ellison Chapter 2. Mobile Identities and Fixed Categories: Forensic DNA and the Politics of Racialised Data David Skinner Chapter 3. Race, Kinship and the Ambivalence of Identity Peter Wade Chapter 4. Identity, DNA, and the State in Post-Dictatorship Argentina Noa Vaisman Chapter 5. ‘Do You Have Celtic, Jewish, Germanic Roots?’ – Applied Swiss History Before and After DNA Marianne Sommer Chapter 6. Irish DNA: Making Connections and Making Distinctions in Y-Chromosome Surname Studies Catherine Nash Chapter 7. Genomics en route: Ancestry, Heritage, and the Politics of Identity Across the Black Atlantic Katharina Schramm Chapter 8. Biotechnological Cults of Affliction? Race, Rationality, and Enchantment in Personal Genomic Histories Stephan Palmié Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

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  • Cambridge University Press Personal Genome Medicine

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  • Cambridge University Press Personal Genome Medicine

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  • Cambridge University Press The Politics of Shale Gas in Eastern Europe

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    Book SynopsisFracking is a novel but contested energy technology so what makes some countries embrace it whilst others reject it? This book argues that the reason for policy divergence lies in procedures and processes, stakeholder inclusion and whether a strong narrative underpins governmental policies. Based on a large set of primary data gathered in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, it explores shale gas policies in Central Eastern Europe (a region strongly dependent on Russian gas imports) to unveil the importance of policy regimes for creating a ''social license'' for fracking. Its findings suggest that technology transfer does not happen in a vacuum but is subject to close mutual interaction with political, economic and social forces; and that national energy policy is not a matter of ''objective'' policy imperatives, such as Russian import dependence, but a function of complex domestic dynamics pertaining to institutional procedures and processes, and winners and losers.Trade Review'Existing academic scholarship and public discourse on fracking has focused almost entirely on North America or Western Europe. This book fills an essential gap not only by examining an often neglected frontline in the shale gas revolution - Eastern Europe - but by utilizing a rich original dataset and an interdisciplinary mosaic of conceptual tools. Anybody concerned about the future of natural gas ought to read this book.' Benjamin K. Sovacool, University of Sussex'This timely monograph from highly respected academic Professor Goldthau provides an excellent analysis of the political and policy issues associated with the highly contentious practice of fracking to extract gas from shale. He masterfully considers the difficult question of social license to operate both generally and within the Central and Eastern European context, providing the reader with an excellent assessment of the critical issues. His consideration of such issues pertaining to shale gas extraction in Central and Eastern Europe will quickly become an important tool for researchers and policy makers alike.' Tina Hunter, Aberdeen University School of Law'This important book is among the first to link the geopolitics of energy firmly back to local policy dynamics. It reveals how critical national policy is in determining whether society accepts - or rejects - fracking technology. A highly-recommended read for anyone interested in European energy security, and the prospects of shale to eventually 'go global'.' Meghan O'Sullivan, Harvard Kennedy School, MassachusettsTable of Contents1. Introduction: shale gas, energy security and comparative public policy; 2. The policy context: European energy security and Russian import dependence; 3. The analytical context: policy regimes and the social license; 4. The stalling front runner: Poland; 5. The nay-sayer: Bulgaria; 6. A no with options: Romania; 7. The comparative public policy of shale gas in Eastern Europe; 8. Conclusion: shale gas, technology transfer and energy security.

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  • Henry Holt and Co. Science Fictions

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    Book SynopsisAn insider's view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon and how the system can be reformed.Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, nutrition, education, genetics, economics, and the search for extraterrestrial life. As Science Fictions makes clear, the current system of research funding and publication not only fails to safeguard us from blunders but actively encourages bad science with sometimes deadly consequences.Stuart Ritchie's own work challenging an infamous psychology experiment helped spark what is now widely known as the replication crisis, the realization that supposed scientific truths are often just plain wrong. Now, he reveals the very human biases, misunderstandings, and dec

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  • The Battle for Your Brain

    St Martin's Press The Battle for Your Brain

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    Book SynopsisA new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next?Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy receive alerts moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer into their own mind to eliminate painful memories or cure addictions.Neuroscience has already made all of this possible today, and neurotechnology will soon become the universal controller for all of our interactions with technology. This can benefit humanity immensely, but without safeguards, it can seriously threaten our fundamental human rights to privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination.From one of the world's foremost experts on the ethics of neuroscience, The Battle for Your Brain offers a path forward to navigate the complex legal and ethic

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  • The Upside of Digital for the Middle East and No  How Digital Technology Adoption Can Accelerate Growth and Create Jobs

    John Wiley & Sons The Upside of Digital for the Middle East and No How Digital Technology Adoption Can Accelerate Growth and Create Jobs

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    Book SynopsisThe argument that digitalisation fosters economic activity has become clear during the current COVID-19 crisis. This report argues that because digital technologies are general purpose, useable across a wide variety of economic activities, the gains from achieving universal coverage of digital services are likely to be large and shared across the economies.

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  • The Applied Ethics of Emerging Military and Security Technologies

    Taylor & Francis Ltd The Applied Ethics of Emerging Military and Security Technologies

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  • Death by Technology

    McFarland & Co Inc Death by Technology

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    Book Synopsis This book refutes the 21st-century notion that advancing technology is an unambiguous social good, and examines the effects of this uncritical acceptance and dependence. The author argues that technology has become the new religion for the digital age, and that elevating technology to nearly the status of a deity allows for the denial of problems created by reliance upon machines. From the release of toxins into the environment to the unsustainable energy demands of the modern era, technological dependence is driving humanity near the brink of extinction. Despite these problems, and existential issues such as artificial intelligence and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, many people have an unwavering belief in the ability of technology, particularly any device labeled smart, to create a perfect future--while denying the history of unmet promises and unintended consequences of technological innovation. The author explores the psychological underpin

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  • Anansi Eve

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  • Cambridge Scholars Publishing Latin American Perspectives on Scientific

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    Book SynopsisThis collection of papers presents case studies and reflections on research bioethics from the standpoint of two Latin American academics involved in the teaching and dissemination of good practices and essential information on bioethics and various related topics. While limited in scope to a few key issues, the text may be read as an inspiration to comparative analyses of research practices involving human subjects and as an example of the reception of fundamental ideas on science and technology adopted in the Latin American region after their development in other areas of the globe.

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  • The Digital Health Self: Wellness, Tracking and

    Bristol University Press The Digital Health Self: Wellness, Tracking and

    Book SynopsisThis is a detailed analysis of how understanding of health management past, present and future has transformed in the digital age. Since the mid-20th century, we have witnessed ‘healthy’ lifestyles being pushed as part of health promotion strategies, both via the state, and through health tracking tools, and narratives of wellness online. This marks a seismic shift from a public welfare state responsibility for health towards individualised practices of digital self-care. Today health has become representative of ‘lifestyle correction' which is performed on social media. Putting the spotlight on neoliberalism and digital technology as pervasive tools that dictate wellness as a moral obligation, Rachael Kent critically analyses how users navigate relationships between self-tracking technologies, social media, and everyday health management.Table of Contents1. Transformations of Health in the Digital Society 2. Understanding Our Bodies through Datafication 3. Surveillance Cultures of the Digital Health Self 4. Discipline and Moralism of Our Health 5. Health ‘Disciples’: Technology ‘Addiction’ and Embodiment 6. Sharing ‘Healthiness’ 7. Future Directions for the Digital Health Self

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  • The Age of Low Tech: Towards a Technologically

    Bristol University Press The Age of Low Tech: Towards a Technologically

    Book SynopsisPeople often believe that we can overcome the profound environmental and climate crises we face by smart systems, green innovations and more recycling. However, the quest for complex technological solutions, which rely on increasingly exotic and scarce materials, makes this unlikely. A best-seller in France, this English language edition introduces readers to an alternative perspective on how we should be marshalling our resources to preserve the planet and secure our future. Bihouix skilfully goes against the grain to argue that ‘high’ technology will not solve global problems and envisages a different approach to build a more resilient and sustainable society.Table of ContentsPrologue ~ The mad dance of the shrimps; Part I ~ The rise and fall of ‘engineering miracle-workers’; Part II ~ The principles of simple technologies; Part III ~ Daily life in the era of simple technologies; Part IV ~ Is ‘transition’ possible?; Epilogue ~ A dream if there ever was one.

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  • We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene

    Bristol University Press We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene

    Book SynopsisThe concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain–computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension. Despite its enduring influence in the public imagination, a fully developed philosophy of transhumanism has not yet been presented. In this new book, leading philosopher Stefan Lorenz Sorgner explores the critical issues that link transhumanism with digitalization, gene technologies and ethics. He examines the history and meaning of transhumanism and asks bold questions about human perfection, cyborgs, genetically enhanced entities, and uploaded minds. Offering insightful reflections on values, norms and utopia, this will be an important guide for readers interested in contemporary digital culture, gene ethics, and policy making.Table of ContentsTranshumanism: In a Nutshell On a Silicon- based Transhumanism On a Carbon- based Transhumanism A Fictive Ethics The End as a New Beginning

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  • Being Human During COVID-19

    Bristol University Press Being Human During COVID-19

    Book SynopsisCutting across disciplines from science and technology studies to the arts and humanities, this thought-provoking collection engages with key issues of social exclusion, inequality, power and knowledge in the context of COVID-19. The authors use the crisis as a lens to explore the contours of contemporary societies and lay bare the ways in which orthodox conceptions of the human condition can benefit a privileged few. Highlighting the lived experiences of marginalized groups from around the world, this is a boundary-spanning critical intervention to ongoing debates about the pandemic. It presents new ways of thinking in public policy, culture and the economy, and points the way forward to a more equitable and inclusive human future. Chapter 12 is available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Trade Review"Editors have given us an excellent new collection of essays with fresh, global perspectives on the sociology and politics of the pandemic... This collection stands out for demonstrating the value of collaborations across disciplines and for presenting so many new insights on the pandemic’s interaction with structural inequalities and the multifaceted implications for excluded and marginalized communities."Table of ContentsIntroduction - Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard and Warren Pearce Part 1: Knowing Humans 1. Making Models into Public Objects - Rokia Ballo and Warren Pearce 2. Pandemics, Metaphors and What It Means to Be Human - Brigitte Nerlich 3. The Role of Everyday Visuals in ‘Knowing Humans’ During COVID-19 - Camilla Mørk Røstvik, Helen Kennedy, Giorgia Aiello and C.W. Anderson 4. Humans, COVID-19 and Platform Societies - Stefania Vicari and Zheng Yang 5. Managing Pandemic Risk in an Interconnected World: What Planning a Wedding Shows about Early Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak - Carlos Cuevas-Garcia Part 2: Marginalized Humans 6. Imperilled Humanities: Locked Down, Locked In and Lockdown Politics During the Pandemic - Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole 7. “Why Would I Go to Hospital if It’s Not Going to Try and Save Me?”: Disabled Young People’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Crisis - Kirsty Liddiard, Katherine Runswick-Cole, Dan Goodley and the Co-Researcher Collective: Ruth Spurr, Sally Whitney, Emma Vogelmann, Lucy Watts MBE and Katy Evans 8. Science Advice for COVID-19 and Marginalized Communities in India - Poonam Pandey and Aviram Sharma 9. Pandemic: Satire and Human Hierarchies - Tanya Titchkosky Part 3: Biosocial Humans 10. Genomic Medicine and the Remaking of Human Health - Paul Martin 11. Frailty and the Value of a Human in COVID-19 Times - Dawn Goodwin, Cliff Shelton and Kate Weiner 12. “I’ve Got People’s Spit All over Me!”: Reflections on the Future of Life-Saving Stem Cell Donor Recruitment - Ros Williams 13. Science Told Me (But I Couldn’t See Its Point) - Rod Michalko Part 4: Human Futures 14: Where Will an Emerging Post-COVID-19 Future Position the Human? - Keren Naa Abeka Arthur, Effie Amanatidou, Stevienna de Saille, Timothy Birabi and Poonam Pandey 15. (Genome) Editing Future Societies - Michael Morrison 16. Inclusive Education in the Post-COVID-19 World - Anna Pilson 17. From TINA to TAMA: Social Futures and Democratic Dreaming in the Ruins of Capitalist Realism - Paul Graham Raven Conclusion: Thinking about ‘the Human’ during COVID-19 Times - Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard and Warren Pearce

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  • Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies:

    Bristol University Press Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies:

    Book SynopsisFrom health tracking to diet apps to biohacking, technology is changing how we relate to our material, embodied selves. Drawing from a range of disciplines and case studies, this volume looks at what makes these health and genetic technologies unique and explores the representation, communication and internalization of health knowledge. Showcasing how power and inequality are reflected and reproduced by these technologies, discourses and practices, this book will be a go-to resource for scholars in science and technology studies as well as those who study the intersection of race, gender, socio-economic status, sexuality and health.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Social and Behavioural Genomics and the Ethics of (In)Visibility - Daphne Oluwaseun Martschenko 2. PureHealth: Feminist New Materialism, Posthuman Auto-Ethnography and Hegemonic Health Assemblages - Tina Sikka 3. Ambivalent Embodiment and HIV Treatment in South Africa - Elizabeth Mills 4. An ‘Artificial’ Concept as the Opposite of Human Dignity - Kazuhiko Shibuya 5. Health Praxis in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Diagnostics, Caregiving and Reimagining the Role(s) of Healthcare Practitioners - Kevin Cummings and John Rief 6. Digital Health Technological Advancements and Gender Dynamics in STS - Anamika Gulati 7. Automation in Medical Imaging: Who Gets What AI Sees? Insights from the Adopters’ Perspective - Filomena Berardi and Giorgio Vernoni 8. Robots for Care: A Few Considerations from the Social Sciences - Miquel Domènech and Núria Vallès-Peris 9. Are Ovulation Biosensors Feminist Technologies? - Joann Wilkinson and Celia Roberts Conclusion

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  • Bristol University Press Revealing Relations Knowledge Infrastructures fo r Liveable Futures

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