Deadly Cultures

Deadly Cultures

• Author : Mark Wheelis
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 6,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2009-06-30
• Genre: History
• Pages : 493
• ISBN 10 : 9780674045132

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The threat of biological weapons has never attracted as much public attention as in the past five years. Yet there has been little historical analysis of such weapons over the past half-century. Deadly Cultures sets out to fill this gap by analyzing the historical developments since 1945 and addressing three central issues: why states have continued or begun programs for acquiring biological weapons, why states have terminated biological weapons programs, and how states have demonstrated that they have truly terminated their biological weapons programs.

Deadly Biocultures

• Author : Nadine Ehlers
• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
• File Size : 19,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-12-17
• Genre: Social Science
• Pages : 288
• ISBN 10 : 9781452960500

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A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today In their seemingly relentless pursuit of life, do contemporary U.S. “biocultures”—where biomedicine extends beyond the formal institutions of the clinic, hospital, and lab to everyday cultural practices—also engage in a deadly endeavor? Challenging us to question their implications, Deadly Biocultures shows that efforts to “make live” are accompanied by the twin operation of “let die”: they validate and enhance lives seen as economically viable, self-sustaining, productive, and oriented toward the future and optimism while reinforcing inequitable distributions of life based on race, class, gender, and dis/ability. Affirming life can obscure death, create deadly conditions, and even kill. Deadly Biocultures examines the affirmation to hope, target, thrive, secure, and green in the respective biocultures of cancer, race-based health, fatness, aging, and the afterlife. Its chapters focus on specific practices, technologies, or techniques that ostensibly affirm life and suggest life’s inextricable links to capital but that also engender a politics of death and erasure. The authors ultimately ask: what alternative social forms and individual practices might be mapped onto or intersect with biomedicine for more equitable biofutures?

Preventing Chemical Weapons

• Author : Michael Crowley
• Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
• File Size : 9,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2018-08-20
• Genre: Medical
• Pages : 652
• ISBN 10 : 9781788014724

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The life and chemical sciences are in the midst of a period of rapid and revolutionary transformation that will undoubtedly bring societal benefits but also have potentially malign applications, notably in the development of chemical weapons. Such concerns are exacerbated by the unstable international security environment and the changing nature of armed conflict, which could fuel a desire by certain States to retain and use existing chemical weapons, as well as increase State interest in creating new weapons; whilst a broader range of actors may seek to employ diverse toxic chemicals as improvised weapons. Stark indications of the multi-faceted dangers we face can be seen in the chemical weapons attacks against civilians and combatants in Iraq and Syria, and also in more targeted chemical assassination operations in Malaysia and the UK. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, and drawing upon an international group of experts, this book analyses current and likely near-future advances in relevant science and technology, assessing the risks of their misuse. The book examines the current capabilities, limitations and failures of the existing international arms control and disarmament architecture – notably the Chemical Weapons Convention – in preventing the development and use of chemical weapons. Through the employment of a novel Holistic Arms Control methodology, the authors also look beyond the bounds of such treaties, to explore the full range of international law, international agreements and regulatory mechanisms potentially applicable to weapons employing toxic chemical agents, in order to develop recommendations for more effective routes to combat their proliferation and misuse. A particular emphasis is given to the roles that chemical and life scientists, health professionals and wider informed activist civil society can play in protecting the prohibition against poison and chemical weapons; and in working with States to build effective and responsive measu

Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture

• Author : Virginia Langum
• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 18,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2016-09-15
• Genre: Literary Criticism
• Pages : 236
• ISBN 10 : 9781137449900

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This book considers how scientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of the human body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphor for sin? Or can certain kinds of bodies physiologically dispose people to be angry, sad, or greedy? If so, then is it their fault? Virginia Langum offers an account of the medical imagery used to describe feelings and actions in religious and literary contexts, referencing a variety of behavioral discussions within medical contexts. The study draws upon medical and theological writing for its philosophical basis, and upon more popular works of religion, as well as poetry, to show how these themes were articulated, explored, and questioned more widely in medieval culture.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology

• Author : Chris Chambers
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 7,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-07-16
• Genre: Psychology
• Pages : null
• ISBN 10 : 9780691192031

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Why psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline—and how to save it Psychological science has made extraordinary discoveries about the human mind, but can we trust everything its practitioners are telling us? In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that a lot of research in psychology is based on weak evidence, questionable practices, and sometimes even fraud. The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology diagnoses the ills besetting the discipline today and proposes sensible, practical solutions to ensure that it remains a legitimate and reliable science in the years ahead. In this unflinchingly candid manifesto, Chris Chambers shows how practitioners are vulnerable to powerful biases that undercut the scientific method, how they routinely torture data until it produces outcomes that can be published in prestigious journals, and how studies are much less reliable than advertised. Left unchecked, these and other problems threaten the very future of psychology as a science—but help is here.

St Louis Courier of Medicine

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 12,5 Mb
• Release Date : 1902
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 550
• ISBN 10 : HARVARD:HC3XMP

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The Medical Times and Register

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 10,8 Mb
• Release Date : 1892
• Genre: Medicine
• Pages : 778
• ISBN 10 : UOM:39015039502037

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A Web of Prevention

• Author : Brian Rappert
• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 6,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2012-05-16
• Genre: Business & Economics
• Pages : 242
• ISBN 10 : 9781136572609

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Web of Prevention provides a timely contribution to the current debate about life science research and its implications for security. It is an informative guide for both experts and the public. It is a forward-looking contribution covering both ends of the equation and creates momentum for the current discussion on effective preventive measures and effective control measures. While there are no guarantees for preventing misuse, there are nonetheless crucial steps the world community can take towards the overarching goal of a global network for the life sciences. This book sheds light on concrete steps toward the achievement of this worthy goal. "This book with its collection of essays provides an in-depth analysis of the various mutually reinforcing elements that together create and strengthen a web of prevention - or of assurance - that is vital to ensure that the advances in the life sciences are not misused to cause harm. All those engaged in the life sciences and in policy making in governments around the world should read this book so they can take steps to strengthen the web preventing biological weapons". From the Foreword by Dr Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack, Chief, Weapons of Mass Destruction Branch, Office for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations. "Since September 11, 2001 in many countries renewed attention has been given to how research in the life sciences might inadvertently or intentionally facilitate the development of biological or chemical weapons. This state-of-the-art volume examines the full extent of the issues and debates. Coverage includes an overview of recent scientific achievements in virology, microbiology, immunology and genetic engineering with a view to asking how they might facilitate the production of weapons of mass destruction by state, sub-state or terrorist organizations. Consideration is given to what we have and haven't learned from the past. Employing both academic analysis and reflections by practitioners, the book examines the secur

Civilization

• Author : Niall Ferguson
• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 11,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2011-11-01
• Genre: History
• Pages : 432
• ISBN 10 : 9781101548028

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From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower “A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal “[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors. Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.

Medical Record

• Author : George Frederick Shrady
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 6,6 Mb
• Release Date : 1892
• Genre: Medicine
• Pages : 826
• ISBN 10 : UOM:39015010781576

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Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race

• Author : Alexander Kelle
• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• File Size : 10,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2012-10-31
• Genre: Political Science
• Pages : 256
• ISBN 10 : 9780804786157

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Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race responds to a growing concern that changes in the life sciences and the nature of warfare could lead to a resurgent interest in chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capabilities. By bringing together a wide range of historical material and current literature in the field of CBW arms control, the book reveals how these two disparate fields might be integrated to precipitate a biochemical arms race among major powers, rogue states, or even non-state actors. It seeks to raise awareness among policy practitioners, the academic community, and the media that such an arms race may be looming if developments are left unattended, and to provide policy options on how it—and it's devastating consequences—could be avoided. After identifying weaknesses in the international regime structures revolving around the Biological Weapons and Chemical Weapons Conventions, it provides policy proposals to deal with gaps and shortcomings in each prohibition regime individually, and then addresses the widening gap between them.

Pacific Record of Medicine and Surgery

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 8,6 Mb
• Release Date : 1892
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 398
• ISBN 10 : UCAL:C3182086

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The New Hampshire Reports

• Author : New Hampshire. Supreme Court
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 5,5 Mb
• Release Date : 1903
• Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
• Pages : null
• ISBN 10 : OSU:32437011912454

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of Judicature of New Hampshire

• Author : New Hampshire. Supreme Court
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 14,6 Mb
• Release Date : 1903
• Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
• Pages : 750
• ISBN 10 : UCAL:B5009322

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Journal of the American Medical Association

• Author : American Medical Association
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 8,9 Mb
• Release Date : 1906
• Genre: Medicine
• Pages : 1936
• ISBN 10 : PSU:000047774728

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