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  • The Problem with Prophecies!
    D. Alan Petersen
    Gathered here are sixteen flights of the imagination, beginning with questions such as:1.How will the Law of Unintended Consequences affect the use of a Mars colony to repopulate a devastated Earth?2.What could possibly go wrong with our search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI)? 3.What do Churchill and Spraken’s exploits on Gallius II teach us about who we think we are?...
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    15,85 €

  • Why I Don’t Like Sex
    D. Alan Petersen
    According to Henry Ford, thinking is the hardest work there is.Research by neuroscientists subsequently qualified that summation. Conscious thinking, especially on difficult subjects, is hard work. Unconscious, automated thinking is much easier. Interacting with people often produces dilemmas that demand serious and conscious thought. How to deal with the death of a loved one o...
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    21,17 €

  • Emotions Online
    Alan Petersen
    Digital media have become deeply immersed in our lives, heightening both hopes and fears of their affordances. Emotions Online explores the visions that shape responses to media and the emotional regimes that govern people’s engagements with them. ...
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    73,52 €

  • Tarkine Mist
    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. U...
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    14,52 €

  • Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope
    Alan Petersen / Claire Tanner / Megan Munsie
    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, ...
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    85,00 €

  • Digital Health and Technological Promise
    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 indi...
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    77,76 €

  • Digital Health and Technological Promise
    Alan Petersen
    This book offers a sociological perspective on digital health, highlighting the impacts of digital technologies on our understandings of health and approaches to healthcare. It will provide an invaluable resource for those seeking to understand the socio-cultural and politico-economic implications of digital health. ...
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    268,50 €

  • Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope
    Alan Petersen / Claire Tanner / Megan Munsie
    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, ...
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    120,19 €

  • Hope in Health
    Alan Petersen
    Health professionals have shown a growing interest in the therapeutic value of ’hope’ in recent years. However, hope has been examined mainly from psychological and biomedical perspectives. Importantly, Hope in Health explores how hope manifests and is sustained in various arenas of health, medicine and healthcare. ...
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    65,46 €

  • The Politics of Bioethics
    Alan Petersen
    This book investigates the socio-political implications of bioethics discourse and practices in relation to a range of controversial developments. It will be of interest to policymakers, clinicians, scholars, and others who are looking for new ways of making sense and evaluating recent developments in the field of bioethics. ...
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    104,70 €

  • The Politics of Bioethics
    Alan Petersen
    This book investigates the socio-political implications of bioethics discourse and practices in relation to a range of controversial developments. It will be of interest to policymakers, clinicians, scholars, and others who are looking for new ways of making sense and evaluating recent developments in the field of bioethics. ...
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    302,19 €

  • Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication
    Alan Professor Petersen / Alison Anderson / Clare Wilkinson
    Drawing together insights from media studies, sociology and science and technology studies, this book is one of the first major studies of media coverage, policy debates and public perceptions of nanotechnologies, and makes a fascinating and timely contribution to debates about the public communication of science. ...
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    65,53 €

  • The Body in Question
    Alan Petersen
    This book examines ’the body’ from a critical socio-cultural perspective. It shows how our conceptions of the body are affected by processes of individualization, medicalization, and commodification. ...
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    342,77 €

  • The Body in Question
    Alan Petersen
    This book examines ’the body’ from a critical socio-cultural perspective. It shows how our conceptions of the body are affected by processes of individualization, medicalization, and commodification. ...
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    88,47 €

  • The New Public Health
    Alan Petersen / Alan Professor Petersen / Deborah Lupton / Deborah Professor Lupton
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    92,35 €