Life Sciences: General Issues

Learn about species, environments, ecosystems and biodiversity in The Ecology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tric...

An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective. The rate at wh...

For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional em...

This book is open access under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The making of British bioethics provides the first in-depth study of how philosophers, lawyer...

A guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers. This book offers the first comprehe...

Biopolitics and posthumanism have been passé theories in the academy for a while now, standing on the unfashionable side of the fault line between ...

Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent, Pangea, surrounded by a great planetary sea. Continental drift tore a...

Psychiatry and religion/spirituality (R/S) share an interest in human flourishing, a concern with beliefs and values, and an appreciation for commu...

Pressing ethical issues are at the foreground of newfound knowledge of how the brain works, how the brain fails, and how information about its func...

The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind. However, these advances have forced us to confront...

This concise version of INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION, International Edition offers the same clear and accurate accounts of complex scientific findin...

Samuel J. Kerstein develops a new, broadly Kantian account of the ethical issues that arise when a person treats another merely as a means, that is...

Neuroethics is a recent field of study with an increasingly widening scope. More than any other, such a discipline could act as a central aggregato...

This report offers a summary of the substantive presentations during an international workshop, Trends in Science and Technology Relevant to the Bi...

The island of New Guinea is the most floristically diverse island in the world with an extremely rich tree flora of up to 5,000 species. Trees of N...

This second edition of Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Western Mediterranean is the most comprehensive and up-to-date plant identification g...

What is epidemiology? What are the causes of a new disease? How can pandemics be prevented? Epidemiology is the study of the changing patterns of...

Temperature adaptation is a much neglected field in the minds of climate change researchers and policy makers. However, increasing fluctuations in ...

There is a spectrum of identities: from the mathematical, through cases where specific criteria matter, to the complex or intuitive cases where we ...

Systems biology refers to the quantitative analysis of the dynamic interactions among several components of a biological system and aims to underst...

Translating Nature Terminology hopes to fill a vacuum in the market, combining practical advice for translators with aspects of linguistics and nat...

Everything that lives will die. That's the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age: people vary wildly in their patterns of...

An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance, More ...

A unique collection of concise but detailed information on 10,000 animals, plants, fungi and algae of the British Isles. Every species with an Engl...

Respect for autonomy has become a fundamental principle in human research ethics. Nonetheless, this principle and the associated process of obtaini...

Historical biogeography-the study of the history of species through both time and place-first convinced Charles Darwin of evolution. This field was...

Over the past decades, public trust in medical professionals has steadily declined. This decline of trust and its replacement by ever tighter regul...

There is a growing crisis in scientific research characterized by failures to reproduce experimental results, fraud, lack of innovation, and burn-o...

Wild Plants for a Sustainable Future is an output from The Useful Plants Project, managed by Kews Seed Conservation Department through the Millenni...

From Tyrannosaurus rex to Heteropoda davidbowie: scientific naming as a joyful and creative act. Tyrannosaurus rex. Homo sapiens. Heteropoda dav...

This is the first publication of its kind for Uganda and provides up-to-date names and synonymy on over 800 species. A conservation assessment is g...

This book describes the 356 species and varieties of plant discovered in the forests of Dom, located in the Bamenda Highlands of North West Region...

A descriptive account of the Solanaceae native and naturalised in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, together with information on exotic ornamental and cr...

A descriptive account of the Apocynaceae (Part 2) native and naturalised in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, together with information on exotic ornamen...

For many years orchids have been among the most popular of ornamental plants, with thousands of species and hybrids cultivated worldwide for the di...

Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned wit...

This book is a record of some 2,700 people who have collected herbarium specimens in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, designed as a supplement to the no...

Rotifers (Rotifera) are animals which occur in every type of aquatic environment, both marine and freshwater. They owe their wide distribution to r...

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