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Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences
The neurosciences are more than a collection of scientific practices - they offer up various ways of thinking about mind, body and society. This title casts light on the place, role and impact of neuroscience. It reflects on the insights the neurosciences have to offer sociology.
New Genetics, New Identities
Genetic advocacy groups, science, and biovalue : creating political economies of hope / Carlos Novas -- Patients as public in ethics debates--interpreting the role of patient organizations in democracy / Annemiek Nelis, Gerard de Vries, and Rob Hagendijk -- From "scraps and fragments" to "whole organisms" : molecular biology, clinical research, and post genomic bodies / Susan E. Kelly -- Fashioning flesh : inclusion, exclusivity, and the potential of genomics / Fiona O'Neill -- Mapping origins : race and relatedness in population genetics and genetic genealogy / Catherine Nash
The Politics of Life Itself
But today normality itself is open to medical modification.
From Technological Humanity to Bio-technical Existence
From Technological Humanity to Bio-technical Existence can be framed as a metaphysics of the present. It starts from the current epoch, an era increasingly marked not only by technology but also by technics in the most general sense, and asks how this affects human existence. The book asks what is called technics, what is called humanity, how these relate to one another, and how changes in these notions oblige us to revise the philosophical notion of existence. It investigates how the idea of technological humanity—of technology as an extension and instrument of the human—is discovered and deconstructed by Martin Heidegger, Helmuth Plessner, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler, and Giorgio Agamben. Finally, the book presents a new idea of bio-technical existence, one that underlies these philosophers' works without being fully elaborated. This idea—of technics as a condition of humanity that humans share with other living and technical beings—is the author's own philosophical proposition and the final result of the book.
Analysing Social Policy
This book brings together leading international researchers to discuss governmental approaches to analysing social policies. Analysing Social Policy expands the scope of social policy analysis using the insights from post-Foucauldian scholarship on the art of governing in liberal democracies. One of the main conclusions reached is that policy researchers need to pay much greater attention to the minutiae of policy reform, and to the discursive and material ways in which power operates in policy change. The chapters comprising this book are purposefully written in a clear, accessible and reflective manner, with each of the contributions empirically grounded, drawing on social policy problems ...
Is There A Nordic Feminism?
This text focuses on changes in culture and society that concern women and feminists in the Nordic countries. It examines women's political strategies, questions of identity, rationality and subjectivity, and social and cultural values.
Governing Societies: Political Perspectives On Domestic And International Rule
What structures of power are involved in governing societies and how are they connected? How is the liberal idea of governing through freedom linked to the increasing control of marginalised populations? Have we reached the end of history in which governing largely concerns self-governing individuals, networks and communities? Should we dispense with the 'container view of society' and contemplate the 'death of the social'? Today, many people in academia, politics and business, question the idea of being able to govern society. The nation state and sovereign government are displaced by globalization and individualization. Mitchell Dean focuses on ‘governing societies’ as a distinctive pr...
Our Psychiatric Future
Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an illness like any other, treatable by drugs? Can psychiatrists differentiate between mental disorders normal eccentricities, anxieties or even sadness? Should the power of psychiatrists be challenged by the knowledge of those with lived experience of mental ill health? In this penetrating analysis, Nikolas Rose critiques the powerful part that psychiatry has come to play in the lives of so many across the world. A series of chapters, each tackling an area of dispute head on, opens wid...
Sankareita vai pelkureita
Runsas vuosisata suomalaista siviilivastarintaa Sukellus suomalaisen rauhanliikkeen ja pasifismin historiaan. Vaikka aseistakieltäytyminen on aina kuulunut Suomessa yhteiskunnan marginaaliin, se on usein herättänyt intohimoja, laajaa poliittista ja kulttuurista kuohuntaa. Myrskyt ovat jo tyyntyneet, mutta silti aseistakieltäytyjä asettuu yhä valinnallaan poikkiteloin sovinnaisuuden kanssa.Miekkoja on taottu auroiksi oman hengenkin uhalla. Aseistakieltäytyjät on nähty niin marjamiehinä , omantunnonarkoina kuin sivistyksen esitaistelijoinakin. Miten heihin on eri aikoina suhtautunut julkinen sana, laki, puolustuslaitos tai kirkko? Sankareita vai pelkureita kertoo ensimmäistä kertaa maamme aseistakieltäytymisen koko historian 1800-luvulta nykypäiviin. Kalevi Kalemaa (s. 1941) on tamperelainen kirjailija. Hänen runsaaseen tuotantoonsa kuuluu sekä kauno- että tietokirjallisuutta, mm. elämäkertoja, historiikkeja, runoja, näytelmiä, kuunnelmia ja satuja. Kalemaa on lisäksi toimittanut useita teoksia.
