Diet For A Small Planet (30Th), Lappe, Frances Moore

Автор: Murphy Timothy F., Lappe Marc A.
Название: Justice and the Human Genome Project
ISBN: 0520302788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520302785
Издательство: Wiley
Цена: 35910.00 T
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Описание: The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and we are able, for instance, to identify markers for genetic diseases long before they develop, who will have the right to obtain such information? What will be the consequences for health care, health insurance, employability, and research priorities? And, more broadly, how will attitudes toward human differences be affected, morally and socially, by the setting of a genetic "standard"?

The compatibility of individual rights and genetic fairness is challenged by the technological possibilities of the future, making it difficult to create an agenda for a "just genetics." Beginning with an account of the utopian dreams and authoritarian tendencies of historical eugenics movements, this book's nine essays probe the potential social uses and abuses of detailed genetic information. Lucid and wide-ranging, these contributions will interest bioethicists, legal scholars, and policy makers.

Essays:
"The Genome Project and the Meaning of Difference," Timothy F. Murphy
"Eugenics and the Human Genome Project: Is the Past Prologue?," Daniel J. Kevles
"Handle with Care: Race, Class, and Genetics," Arthur L. Caplan
"Public Choices and Private Choices: Legal Regulation of Genetic Testing," Lori B. Andrews
"Rules for Gene Banks: Protecting Privacy in the Genetics Age," George J. Annas
"Use of Genetic Information by Private Insurers," Robert J. Pokorski
"The Genome Project, Individual Differences, and Just Health Care," Norman Daniels
"Just Genetics: A Problem Agenda," Leonard M. Fleck
"Justice and the Limitations of Genetic Knowledge," Marc A. Lapp
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Автор: Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Angelika Braun, Claudine Mouli
Название: Expanding the Lexicon: Linguistic Innovation, Morphological Productivity, and the Role of Discourse-Related Factors
ISBN: 3110500841 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110500844
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Цена: 64990.00 T
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Описание: The creation of new lexical units and patterns has been studied in different research frameworks, focusing on either system-internal or system-external aspects, from which no comprehensive view has emerged. The volume aims to fill this gap by studying dynamic processes in the lexicon - understood in a wide sense as not being necessarily limited to the word level - by bringing together approaches directed to morphological productivity as well as approaches analyzing general types of lexical innovation and the role of discourse-related factors. The papers deal with ongoing changes as well as with historical processes of change in different languages and reflect on patterns and specific subtypes of lexical innovation as well as on their external conditions and the speakers' motivations for innovating. Moreover, the diffusion and conventionalization of innovations will be addressed. In this way, the volume contributes to understanding the complex interplay of structural, cognitive and functional factors in the lexicon as a highly dynamic domain.

Автор: Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Angelika Braun, Claudine Moulin, Esme Winter-Froemel
Название: Expanding the Lexicon: Linguistic Innovation, Morphological Productivity, and Ludicity
ISBN: 3110684942 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110684940
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: The creation of new lexical units and patterns has been studied in different research frameworks, focusing on either system-internal or system-external aspects, from which no comprehensive view has emerged. The volume aims to fill this gap by studying dynamic processes in the lexicon – understood in a wide sense as not being necessarily limited to the word level – by bringing together approaches directed to morphological productivity as well as approaches analyzing general types of lexical innovation and the role of discourse-related factors. The papers deal with ongoing changes as well as with historical processes of change in different languages and reflect on patterns and specific subtypes of lexical innovation as well as on their external conditions and the speakers’ motivations for innovating. Moreover, the diffusion and conventionalization of innovations will be addressed. In this way, the volume contributes to understanding the complex interplay of structural, cognitive and functional factors in the lexicon as a highly dynamic domain.

Автор: Lappe Frances Moore
Название: Ecomind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want
ISBN: 1568587430 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781568587431
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Цена: 30330.00 T
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Описание: In EcoMind , Frances Moore Lappe,a giant of the environmental movement,confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest challenge to human survival isn`t our fossil fuel dependency, melting glaciers, or other calamities. Rather, it`s our faulty way of thinking about these environmental crises that robs us of power. Lappe dismantles seven common thought traps",from limits to growth to the failings of democracy, that belie what we now know about nature, including our own, and offers contrasting thought leaps" that reveal our hidden power. Like her Diet for a Small Planet classic, EcoMind is challenging, controversial and empowering.