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Ethical issues & debates
Paperback. The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species, our capacity to 'play God', the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be 'human' in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFM; PDA; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433091
- ISBN
- 9781137433091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Paperback. An ethnography focused on professional guinea pigs, healthy, paid research subjects who earn their living by participating in multiple Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs in development. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348238
- ISBN
- 9780822348238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.52
€ 26.99
€ 25.52
Paperback. Assesses where we are 15 years later, how far we've come and, more importantly, how far we have still to go. This book argues for the need to integrate the struggle against sexual exploitation in prostitution into broader feminist struggles and to place it, as one of several connected issues, in the forefront of the feminist agenda. Num Pages: 390 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMX; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814712771
- ISBN
- 9780814712771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Hardcover. What would it mean to "get over slavery"? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Featuring original essays from an array of established and emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of African American studies, The Psychic Hold of Slavery offers a nuanced dialogue upon these questions. Editor(s): Colbert, Soyica Diggs; Patterson, Robert J.; Levy-Hussen, Aida. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFM; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813583969
- ISBN
- 9780813583969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.16
€ 161.16
Paperback. Abortion was one of Australia's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets. This book describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of influence, which culminated in the landmark ruling that made abortion legal, and a public inquiry that humiliated a powerful government and a glamorous police force. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBT; JFMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780522855784
- ISBN
- 9780522855784
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.81
€ 30.81
Hardback. Lyombe Eko carries out an historical and cultural survey of the regulation of visual depictions of explicit human sexual conduct, analyzing the contemporary problem of the applicability of the human right of freedom of expression to explicit imagery in the face of societal interests in the regulation of representations of human sexuality. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFMD; JFMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137564238
- ISBN
- 9781137564238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.68
€ 106.68
Paperback. The concept of obscenity is an ancient one. But as Joan de Jean suggests, its modern form, the same that today's politicians decry, was invented in seventeenth century France. This work also casts a fresh light on the mythical link between sexual impropriety and all things French. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; JFC; JFMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226141411
- ISBN
- 9780226141411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Hardcover. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813529868
- ISBN
- 9780813529868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.30
€ 50.30
Paperback. The true story of an orphaned Cambodian girl who spent her childhood in slavery and prostitution and now combats trafficking. Somaly Mam has a strong international profile and supporters include Hillary Clinton, the Queen of Spain and Angelina Jolie. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8pp of colour photos. BIC Classification: BGA; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844083466
- ISBN
- 9781844083466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.94
€ 15.99
€ 11.94
Paperback. Discusses how the death penalty might be abolished, with particular emphasis on the debate over lethal injection as a case study on why and how the elimination of certain forms of execution might provide a model for the larger abolition of the death penalty. Editor(s): Ogletree, Charles J., Jr.; Sarat, Austin. Series: The Road to Abolition?. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814762189
- ISBN
- 9780814762189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. This resounding defence of the principles of free expression revisits the Satanic Verses uproar of 1989, as well as subsequent incidents such as the Danish cartoons controversy, to argue that the human right of free speech is by no means so secure that it can be taken for granted. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK; HRH; JFMD; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 221 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137388599
- ISBN
- 9781137388599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.42
€ 66.42
Hardback. Editor(s): Katz, Esther; Hajo, Cathy Moran; Engelman, Peter C. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; JFMX; JFSJ1; MBNH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1134.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 720
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252040382
- ISBN
- 9780252040382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.40
€ 134.40
Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages, 10 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBTB; HRLM7; JFMX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 323.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253021366
- ISBN
- 9780253021366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. The Street Politics of Abortion uses three Supreme Court cases to consider the rise and fall of clinic-front anti-abortion protests in the 1980s and 1990s, and illustrates how these conflicts influenced the contemporary form of reproductive politics and the greater New Christian Right. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: JFMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804785334
- ISBN
- 9780804785334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.11
€ 119.11
Paperback. The Street Politics of Abortion uses three Supreme Court cases to consider the rise and fall of clinic-front anti-abortion protests in the 1980s and 1990s, and illustrates how these conflicts influenced the contemporary form of reproductive politics and the greater New Christian Right. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: JFMX; JPVH4; LA; MBNH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804785341
- ISBN
- 9780804785341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJPK; BT; DSK; JFMP; LNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 242 x 13. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- Daunt Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907970979
- ISBN
- 9781907970979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 7.75
€ 8.99
€ 7.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: JFM; JFSJ1; JKSN; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231151634
- ISBN
- 9780231151634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.43
€ 30.99
€ 22.43
Paperback. How one cartoon ignited a global debate on the future of free speech. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFMD; JPVH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 204 x 24. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Cato Institute
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939709998
- ISBN
- 9781939709998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.77
€ 16.99
€ 16.77
Paperback. Confronting the issue of the unacceptable as a social category, this collection of international essays provides distinctive perspectives on the theme of what is deemed socially acceptable. The book reveals the ways in which the category of the unacceptable reflects sexual, racial and political fault-lines of a society. Editor(s): Potts, John; Scannell, John. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFP; JFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440198
- ISBN
- 9781137440198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Paperback. This volume's contributors outline the current war on sex, in which-despite the expansion of sexual liberties in the United States-sex has become the target of ever-expanding regulation and control, from sex offender registries to the criminalization of HIV. Editor(s): Halperin, Professor of Literature David M (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Hoppe, Trevor. Num Pages: 512 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SG; JFMX; JFSJ1; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363675
- ISBN
- 9780822363675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.25
€ 36.99
€ 33.25