Shaping Our Selves
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Shaping Our Selves
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Author : Erik Parens
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
Shaping Our Selves written by Erik Parens and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Medical categories.
When bioethicists debate the ethics of using technologies like surgery and pharmacology to shape our selves, they are debating what it means for human beings to flourish. They are debating what makes animals like us truly happy, and whether the technologies at issue will bring us closer to or farther from such happiness. The positions that participants adopt in debates regarding such ancient and fundamental questions are often polarized, and cannot help but be deeply personal. It is no wonder that these debates are sometimes acrimonious. How can critics of and enthusiasts about technological self- transformation move forward in the midst of polarizing arguments? Based on his experience as a scholar at The Hastings Center, the oldest free-standing bioethics research institute in the world, Erik Parens proposes a habit of thinking, which he calls Binocular thinking lets us benefit from the insights that are visible from the stance of the enthusiast, who emphasizes that using technology to creatively transform our selves will make us happier, and to benefit from the insights that are visible from the stance of the critic, who emphasizes that learning to let ourselves be will make us happier. Because these debates ultimately entail critics and enthusiasts giving justifications for their own ways of being in the world, they entail the exchange of more than just impartial reasons. In the throes of our passion to make our case, we exaggerate our insights and all-too-often fall into the conceptual traps that our languages constantly set for us: Are human beings by nature creators or creatures? Are technologies morally neutral or value- laden? Is disability a medical or a social phenomenon? Indeed, are we free or determined? Parens explains how participating in these debates helped him articulate a habit of thinking, which is better at benefiting from the insights embedded in both poles of those binaries than was the habit of thinking he broug
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
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Author : Jill W. Rettberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-10-02
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology written by Jill W. Rettberg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-02 with Social Science categories.
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of written, visual and quantitative modes of self-representations. This book uses examples to explore the balance between using technology to see ourselves and allowing our machines to tell us who we are.
Self Care
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Author : Christopher Ziguras
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-06-02
Self Care written by Christopher Ziguras and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-02 with Health & Fitness categories.
A key theoretical contribution to the sociological study of health and embodiment by illuminating the processes of social change that have transformed individual self-care and the ways in which power and desire now shape health behaviour.
Controlling Time And Shaping The Self
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Author : J. Arianne Baggerman
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-06-22
Controlling Time And Shaping The Self written by J. Arianne Baggerman and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book gives answers to questions surrounding the rise of autobiographical writing from the sixteenth to the twentieth century by analyzing texts varying from the time of the Spanish Inquisi tion to post-war Japan.
Controlling Time And Shaping The Self
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-06-22
Controlling Time And Shaping The Self written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-22 with History categories.
This book gives answers to questions surrounding the rise of autobiographical writing from the sixteenth to the twentieth century by analyzing texts varying from the time of the Spanish Inquisition to post-war Japan.
Shaping The Fractured Self
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Author : Heather Taylor Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Apollo Books
Release Date : 2017
Shaping The Fractured Self written by Heather Taylor Johnson and has been published by Apollo Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Poetry categories.
Of course not all great art has its genesis in pain, and not all pain-not even a fraction-leads to the partial consolations of art. But if lancing an abscess is the surest way to healing, can poetry offer that same cleansing of emotional wounds? Shaping the Fractured Self showcases twenty-eight of Australia's finest poets who happen to live with chronic illness and pain. The autobiographical short essays, in conjunction with the three poems from each of the poets, capture the body in trauma in its many and varied moods. Because those who live with chronic illness and pain experience shifts in their relationship to it on a yearly, monthly, or daily basis, so do the words they use to describe it. This book gives voice to sufferers, carers, medical practitioners, and researchers, building understanding in a community of caring. [Subject: Chronic Illness, Poetry, Health Studies]
Governing The Soul
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Author : Nikolas S. Rose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Governing The Soul written by Nikolas S. Rose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Psychology categories.
Governing the Soul is now widely recognized as one of the founding texts in a new approach to analyzing the links between political power, expertise and the self. This governmentality perspective has had important implications for a range of academic disciplines including criminology, political theory, sociology and psychology and has generated much theoretical innovation and empirical investigation. The second edition contains a new introduction, which sets out the methodological and conceptual bases of this approach. Also, a new final chapter has been added that considers some of the implications of recent developments in the government of subjectivity.
Descartes S Method Of Doubt
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Author : Janet Broughton
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-10
Descartes S Method Of Doubt written by Janet Broughton and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-10 with Philosophy categories.
Descartes thought that we could achieve absolute certainty by starting with radical doubt. He adopts this strategy in the Meditations on First Philosophy, where he raises sweeping doubts with the famous dream argument and the hypothesis of an evil demon. But why did Descartes think we should take these exaggerated doubts seriously? And if we do take them seriously, how did he think any of our beliefs could ever escape them? Janet Broughton undertakes a close study of Descartes's first three meditations to answer these questions and to present a fresh way of understanding precisely what Descartes was up to. Broughton first contrasts Descartes's doubts with those of the ancient skeptics, arguing that Cartesian doubt has a novel structure and a distinctive relation to the commonsense outlook of everyday life. She then argues that Descartes pursues absolute certainty by uncovering the conditions that make his radical doubt possible. She gives a unified account of how Descartes uses this strategy, first to find certainty about his own existence and then to argue that God exists. Drawing on this analysis, Broughton provides a new way to understand Descartes's insistence that he hasn't argued in a circle, and she measures his ambitions against those of contemporary philosophers who use transcendental arguments in their efforts to defeat skepticism. The book is a powerful contribution both to the history of philosophy and to current debates in epistemology.
Governing The Soul
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Author : Nikolas S. Rose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Governing The Soul written by Nikolas S. Rose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Philosophy categories.
Today, our personal and emotional lives have become the object and target of psychologists, therapists and other professionals. This book examines the birth of these engineers of the human soul' and their influence upon our society.
Shape Your Self
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Author : Martina Navratilova
language : en
Publisher: Rodale
Release Date : 2007-08-21
Shape Your Self written by Martina Navratilova and has been published by Rodale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-21 with Health & Fitness categories.
The tennis champion outlines a six-step fitness program that covers such topics as the benefits of natural and raw foods and creating a home environment that reinforces one's goals, in a guide that includes personal anecdotes and lifestyle tips.