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  • Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies

    Science and Technology Studies and Health Praxis

    by Miquel Domènech, Núria Vallès-Peris, Anamika Gulati, Stephan Struve, Ana Tomičić, Anto Čartolovni, Anamaria Malešević, Daphne Oluwaseun Martschenko ...
    From 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 ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    by Helen Hester ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancipatory potential of feminism? How should gender politics be reconfigured in a world being transformed by automation, globalization and the digital revolution?These questions are addressed in this bold new book by Helen Hester, a founding member of the 'Laboria Cuboniks' collective that developed the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Life Itself

    Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century

    by Nikolas Rose ...
    Series series In-Formation
    For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of Life Itself offers a much-needed examination of ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • New Genetics, New Identities

    Edited by Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner, Helen Greenslade ...
    Series series Genetics and Society
    What implications are applications of new genetic technologies in biomedicine having on social identity in today’s society?New Genetics, New Identities, a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary volume in the CESAGen Genetics & Society Book series, presents not only theoretical reflection but also empirical case studies drawn from an international array of authors. Including the highly controversial areas ... Read more

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  • Future Morality

    Edited by David Edmonds ...
    The world is changing so fast that it's hard to know how to think about what we ought to do. We barely have time to reflect on how scientific advances will affect our lives before they're upon us. New kinds of dilemma are springing up. Can robots be held responsible for their actions? Will artificial intelligence be able to predict criminal activity? Is the future gender-fluid? Should we strive to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Against Reduction

    Designing a Human Future with Machines

    by Noelani Arista, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vafa Ghazavi, Suzanne Kite ...
    Provocative, hopeful essays imagine a future that is not reduced to algorithms.What is human flourishing in an age of machine intelligence, when many claim that the world’s most complex problems can be reduced to narrow technical questions? Does more computing make us more intelligent, or simply more computationally powerful? We need not always resist reduction; our ability to simplify helps us ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication

    Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dan Kahan, Dietram A. Scheufele ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    The proposal to vaccinate adolescent girls against the human papilloma virus ignited political controversy, as did the advent of fracking and a host of other emerging technologies. These disputes attest to the persistent gap between expert and public perceptions. Complicating the communication of sound science and the debates that surround the societal applications of that science is a changing ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • Towards a Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

    by Paula Boddington ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The author investigates how to produce realistic and workable ethical codes or regulations in this rapidly developing field to address the immediate and realistic longer-term issues facing us. She spells out the key ethical debates concisely, exposing all sides of the arguments, and addresses how codes of ethics or other regulations might feasibly be developed, looking for pitfalls and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies

    An Introduction

    by Ibo van de Poel ...
    Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the possibility to create artificial wombs may affect notions of motherhood and birth. Some have suggested that we address global warming by engineering the climate, but how does this ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Technology Ethics

    A Philosophical Introduction and Readings

    Edited by Gregory J. Robson, Jonathan Y. Tsou ...
    The first of its kind, this anthology in the burgeoning field of technology ethics offers students and other interested readers 32 chapters, each written in an accessible and lively manner specifically for this volume. The chapters are conveniently organized into five parts:Perspectives on Technology and its ValueTechnology and the Good LifeComputer and Information TechnologyTechnology and ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication

    Meaning, Culture, and Power

    by Heather Zoller, Mohan J. Dutta ...
    This volume provides the theoretical, methodological, and praxis-driven issues in research on interpretive, critical, and cultural approaches to health communication. It includes an international collection of contributors, and highlights non-traditional (non-Western) perspectives on health communication. ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • The Fight Against Doubt

    How to Bridge the Gap Between Scientists and the Public

    by Kristen Intemann, Inmaculada de Melo-Martín ...
    The lack of public support for climate change policies and refusals to vaccinate children are just two alarming illustrations of the impacts of dissent about scientific claims. Dissent can lead to confusion, false beliefs, and widespread public doubt about highly justified scientific evidence. Even more dangerously, it has begun to corrode the very authority of scientific consensus and knowledge. ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD