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Author : Kurt Bayertz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521416931
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)
Download or read book GenEthics written by Kurt Bayertz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the ethical controversies surrounding technological intervention in human reproduction.
Author : Jürgen Moltmann
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451411959
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (119 download)
Download or read book The Future of Creation written by Jürgen Moltmann and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays, written during the fertile years between Theology of Hope and The Church in the Power of the Spirit, world-renowned theologian Jürgen Moltmann demonstrates the remarkable depth and rhetorical power so characteristic of his major works. Here collected in one volume are brief, vital articulations of Moltmann's thought on such topics as eschatology, transcendence, hope, creation, the theology of the cross, the Trinity, development, the practice of liberation, justification, and biomedical progress.
Author : J. Benjamin Hurlbut
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658110449
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (581 download)
Download or read book Perfecting Human Futures written by J. Benjamin Hurlbut and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have always imagined better futures. From the desire to overcome death to the aspiration to dominion over the world, imaginations of the technological future reveal the commitments, values, and norms of those who construct them. Today, the human future is thrown into question by emerging technologies that promise radical control over human life and elicit corollary imaginations of human perfectibility. This interdisciplinary volume assembles scholars of science and technology studies, sociology, philosophy, theology, ethics, and history to examine imaginations of technological progress that promises to transcend the constraints of human body and being. Attending in particular to transhumanist and posthumanist visions, the volume breaks new ground by exploring their utopian and eschatological dimensions and situating them within a broader context of ideas, institutions, and practices of innovation. The volume invites specialists and general readers to explore the stakes of contemporary imaginations of technological innovation as a source of progress, a force of social and historical transformation, and as the defining essence of human life.
Author : Radovan Richta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351711075
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Civilization at the Crossroads : Social and Human Implications of the Scientific and Technological Revolution (International Arts and Sciences Press) written by Radovan Richta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 1968
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Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9401208581
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Frontiers of Cyberspace written by and published by Brill. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The content of this volume reflects theoretical and practical discussions on cultural issues influenced by increased adoption of information and communication technologies. The penetration of new forms of communication, such as online social networking, internet video-casting, and massive online multiplayer gaming; the experience and exploration of virtual worlds; and the massive adoption of ever-emergent ICT technologies; are all developments in desperate need of serious examination. It is not surprising that these new realities, and the questions and issues to which they give rise, have drawn increasing attention from academics. Those engaging these issues do so from a wide range of academic fields. Accordingly, the authors contributing to this volume represent an impressive array of academic disciplines and varied perspectives, including philosophy, sociology, religion, anthropology, digital humanities, literature studies, film science, new media studies and still others. Thus, the subsequent chapters offer the reader a multidimensional examination of this volume’s unifying theme: the ways and extent to which current and anticipated cybernetic environments have altered, and will continue to shape, our understandings of what it means to be human.
Author : Sarah Kember
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134551924
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life written by Sarah Kember and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics rather than on the 'nature' of artificial life.
Author : Sabine Höhler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131731753X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960–1990 written by Sabine Höhler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of the earth as a vessel in space came of age in an era shaped by space travel and the Cold War. Höhler’s study brings together technology, science and ecology to explore the way this latter-day ark was invoked by politicians, environmentalists, cultural historians, writers of science fiction and many others across three decades.
Author : Mikulas Teich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521349154
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Fin de Siècle and Its Legacy written by Mikulas Teich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-12-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years the term fin de siècle has been used to imply a state of decadence which was thought to have pervaded 'civilised' European society in the years around 1900. This volume of essays, which draw on a very wide range of disciplines, argues that the period was in fact one of dramatic change, essentially positive and forward-looking in character. This was the period of the rise of the giant corporation, of mass production and mass consumption, and of the development of the generation and distribution of electrical energy. Novel social features such as mass politics, mass media, and mass sport involved the body of ordinary people and in the arts, complex reactions to contemporary social reality were aroused and expressed. This was also the period which gave birth to the study of quantum mechanics, relativity physics, mental processes and genetics. This volume forms part of a sequence of collections of essays which began with The Enlightenment in National Context (1981) and has continued with Romanticism in National Context (1988). They bring together comparative, national and interdisciplinary approaches to the history of great movements in the development of human thought and actions.
Author : Kimba Allie Tichenor
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611689090
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Religious Crisis and Civic Transformation written by Kimba Allie Tichenor and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich analysis of how issues related to gender and sexuality transformed the West German Catholic Church
Author : Hans Schwarz
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802870880
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Human Being written by Hans Schwarz and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This overview of Christian anthropology by Hans Schwarz uniquely emphasizes three things: (1) the biblical testimony, (2) the historical unfolding of Christian anthropology through the centuries, and (3) the present affirmation of Christian anthropology in view of rival options and current scientific evidence. Schwarz begins by elucidating the special place occupied by human beings in the world, then ponders the complex issue of human freedom, and concludes by investigating humanity as a community of men and women in this world and in the world beyond. While maintaining a strong biblical orientation, Schwarz draws on a wide range of resources, including philosophy and the natural sciences, in order to map out what it means to be human. Schwarz's Human Being will interest anyone who is concerned with how in the face of fascinating scientific insights we can intelligently talk today about human sinfulness, human freedom, and human beings as children of the God who created us.
Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107148731
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book A History of the Future written by Peter J. Bowler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging survey of predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology through the twentieth century.
Author : Ciba Foundation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Man and His Future written by Ciba Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bert Gordijn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402088523
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity written by Bert Gordijn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we are increasingly using new technologies to change ourselves beyond therapy and in accordance with our own desires, understanding the challenges of human enhancement has become one of the most urgent topics of the current age. This volume contributes to such an understanding by critically examining the pros and cons of our growing ability to shape human nature through technological advancements. The authors undertake careful analyses of decisive questions that will confront society as enhancement interventions using bio-, info-, neuro- and nanotechnologies become widespread in the years to come. They provide the reader with the conceptual tools necessary to address such questions fruitfully. What makes the book especially attractive is the combination of conceptual, historical and ethical approaches, rendering it highly original. In addition, the well-balanced structure allows both favourable and critical views to be voiced. Moreover, the work has a crystal clear structure. As a consequence, the book is accessible to a broad academic audience. The issues raised are of interest to a wide reflective public concerned about science and ethics, as well as to students, academics and professionals in areas such as philosophy, applied ethics, bioethics, medicine and health management.
Author : Mark Burgin
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813109017
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Information Studies And The Quest For Transdisciplinarity: Unity Through Diversity written by Mark Burgin and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second volume of a two-volume edition based on the International Society for Information Studies Summit Vienna 2015 on 'The Information Society at the Crossroads. Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information' (see summit.is4is.org).The book gives an up-to-date multiaspect exposition of contemporary studies in the field of information and related areas. It presents most recent achievements, ideas and opinions of leading researchers in this domain reflecting their quest for advancing information science and technology. With the goal of building a better society, in which social and technological innovations help make information key to the flourishing of humanity, we dispense with the bleak view of the dark side of information society.It is aimed at readers that conduct research into any aspect of information, information society and information technology, who develop or implement social or technological applications. It is also for those who have an interest in participating in setting the goals for the sciences of information and the social applications of technological achievements and the scientific results.
Author : Jean-Paul Gaudilliere
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131731686X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Development of Scientific Marketing in the Twentieth Century written by Jean-Paul Gaudilliere and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global pharmaceutical industry is currently estimated to be worth $1 trillion. Contributors chart the rise of scientific marketing within the industry from 1920-1980. This is the first comprehensive study into pharmaceutical marketing, demonstrating that many new techniques were actually developed in Europe before being exported to America.
Author : Christian Baron
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331956577X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition written by Christian Baron and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what science fiction can tell us about the human condition in a technological world, with the ethical dilemmas and consequences that this entails. This book is the result of the joint efforts of scholars and scientists from various disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach sets an example for those who, like us, have been busy assessing the ways in which fictional attempts to fathom the possibilities of science and technology speak to central concerns about what it means to be human in a contemporary world of technology and which ethical dilemmas it brings along. One of the aims of this book is to demonstrate what can be achieved in approaching science fiction as a kind of imaginary laboratory for experimentation, where visions of human (or even post-human) life under various scientific, technological or natural conditions that differ from our own situation can be thought through and commented upon. Although a scholarly work, this book is also designed to be accessible to a general audience that has an interest in science fiction, as well as to a broader academic audience interested in ethical questions.
