epub |eng | | Author:Gina Kolata

Part II Amanda Baxley: The Next Generation 11 A Life Transformed On that late afternoon in February 2004, on that awful day that Buddy learned that he did indeed have ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-02 | Author:Inmaculada de Melo-Martin [de Melo-Martin, Inmaculada]

When You Are a Hammer, Everything Looks like a Nail A second reason to doubt proponents’ claims regarding our ability to control the natural lottery of sexual reproduction and natural ...

epub |eng | | Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

In 1908, when psychiatrists encountered children who were withdrawn, self-absorbed, emotionally uncommunicative, and often prone to repetitive behaviors, they classified the disease as a strange variant of schizophrenia. But the ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Klitzman, Robert L.

Whether it is part of my identity now depends on the crowd I’m in. When I’m in an Alpha group: I’m one of you. It’s part of me, a description ...

epub |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Anne Fadiman [Fadiman, Anne]

I held a long discussion with both parents through aid of an interpreter. CPS worker Jeanine Hilt was present. Parents understand that the antibiotics are fighting a severe infection and ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-08-04 | Author:Michael J. Sandel

LIBERAL EUGENICS In the age of the genome, the language of eugenics is making a comeback, not only among critics but also among defenders of enhancement. An influential school of ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Ronald Cole-Turner [Cole-Turner, Ronald]

of obligation to create a new human future. In this he perceives enhance- ments fitting in to a view of what might be broadly termed human “evolu- tion,” understood as ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Max More & Natasha Vita-More

23 Transhumanism and Personal Identity James Hughes Enlightenment values are built around the presumption of an independent rational self, citizen, consumer, and pursuer of self-interest. Even the authoritarian and communitarian ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-16 | Author:Gary Null [Null, Gary]

Hysterectomy Perhaps the most infamous and often unnecessary surgical procedure is the hysterectomy, especially when performed on women close to menopause, after which many adverse symptoms, such as uterine bleeding, ...

epub |eng | 2007-01-09 | Author:Pauline W. Chen [Chen, Pauline W.]

Hanging in Room 15 among the other paintings and sculptures that make up the Victorian Spectacle collection of London’s Tate Britain museum is a painting so well etched in my ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Kahn

STEPPING-STONES AND THE UNKNOWN The productive power of the unknown to create a space for race is clearly evident in a 2008 article published by Robert Temple, Director of the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Tony Hope

18. An attempt to assassinate the British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, in 1843, led to the establishment of the legal rules for determining when a person is not guilty ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Singer

In the preceding section, we discussed justifiable killing of beings who have never been capable of choosing to live or die. Ending a life without consent may also be considered ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-05-05 | Author:Max More & Natasha Vita-More

23 Transhumanism and Personal Identity James Hughes Enlightenment values are built around the presumption of an independent rational self, citizen, consumer, and pursuer of self-interest. Even the authoritarian and communitarian ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-12 | Author:Kern, David E. & Thomas, Patricia A. & Hughes, Mark T. [Kern, David E.]

Resource Allocation The use of resources for one purpose may mean that fewer resources are available for other purposes. The curriculum developer may need to ask whether the allocation of ...