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When Science Offers Salvation
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Author : Rebecca Susan Dresser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
When Science Offers Salvation written by Rebecca Susan Dresser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Medical ethics categories.
In examining how advocates have transformed health research, the author of this study examines patient advocacy through the lens of research ethics.
When Science Offers Salvation
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Author : Rebecca Dresser
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001-03-22
When Science Offers Salvation written by Rebecca Dresser and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-22 with Medical categories.
Biomedical research today has a high public profile, largely because of patient advocacy. Following in the footsteps of HIV/AIDS activists, advocates representing an array of patient groups are now vocal partners in the research enterprise. Advocates want research practices and policies to be more responsive to the people who must live with the burdens of illness. This book shows how advocates have transformed health research, often -- but not always -- for the better. Dresser is the first to examine patient advocacy through the lens of research ethics. She reveals the many ways in which a quest for cures and improved therapies shapes advocacy work. She exposes the bright and dark sides of patients' expanded opportunities to enroll in clinical trials and join researchers in planning and evaluating studies. She considers the virtues and drawbacks of giving patients more influence over how the government invests its research dollars. She argues that advocates should do more to promote ethical human studies and responsible media reporting about research. Patient advocates can help make research more ethical, but advocacy raises ethical issues of its own. This book clearly and vividly recounts the advocacy contribution to research and explores the thorny ethical issues facing research advocates.
When Science Offers Salvation
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Author : Rebecca Dresser
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001-03-22
When Science Offers Salvation written by Rebecca Dresser and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-22 with Medical categories.
"Patient advocates can help make research more ethical, but advocacy raises ethical issues of its own.
Science And Salvation
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Author : Aileen Fyfe
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-04-15
Science And Salvation written by Aileen Fyfe and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-15 with Religion categories.
Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques—low prices, simple language, carefully structured narratives—to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A fascinating study of the tenuous relationship between science and religion in evangelical publishing, Science and Salvation examines questions of practice and faith from a fresh perspective. Rather than highlighting works by expert men of science, Aileen Fyfe instead considers a group of relatively undistinguished authors who used thinly veiled Christian rhetoric to educate first, but to convert as well. This important volume is destined to become essential reading for historians of science, religion, and publishing alike.
Science As Salvation
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Author : Mary Midgley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-02-01
Science As Salvation written by Mary Midgley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-01 with Philosophy categories.
What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science.
Natural Salvation
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Author : C. A. Stephens
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2019-02-08
Natural Salvation written by C. A. Stephens and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-08 with Science categories.
Excerpt from Natural Salvation: The Message of Science, Outlining the First Principles of Immortal Life on the Earth We do not suppose that the unicell. Of the Silurian beach foresaw its apotheosis in the brain neuron of a Webster, a Washington, or a Lincoln. The cell but chose to do what felt best for itself; or it may even have been coerced to what it did by the merest accident of its environment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Science As Salvation
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Author : Mary Midgley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-02-01
Science As Salvation written by Mary Midgley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-01 with Philosophy categories.
What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science.
Toms River
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Author : Dan Fagin
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2013-03-19
Toms River written by Dan Fagin and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-19 with Science categories.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • Winner of The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award • “A new classic of science reporting.”—The New York Times The riveting true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River melds hard-hitting investigative reporting, a fascinating scientific detective story, and an unforgettable cast of characters into a sweeping narrative in the tradition of A Civil Action, The Emperor of All Maladies, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. One of New Jersey’s seemingly innumerable quiet seaside towns, Toms River became the unlikely setting for a decades-long drama that culminated in 2001 with one of the largest legal settlements in the annals of toxic dumping. A town that would rather have been known for its Little League World Series champions ended up making history for an entirely different reason: a notorious cluster of childhood cancers scientifically linked to local air and water pollution. For years, large chemical companies had been using Toms River as their private dumping ground, burying tens of thousands of leaky drums in open pits and discharging billions of gallons of acid-laced wastewater into the town’s namesake river. In an astonishing feat of investigative reporting, prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin recounts the sixty-year saga of rampant pollution and inadequate oversight that made Toms River a cautionary example for fast-growing industrial towns from South Jersey to South China. He tells the stories of the pioneering scientists and physicians who first identified pollutants as a cause of cancer, and brings to life the everyday heroes in Toms River who struggled for justice: a young boy whose cherubic smile belied the fast-growing tumors that had decimated his body from birth; a nurse who fought to bring the alarming incidence of childhood cancers to the attention of authorities who didn’t want to listen; and a mother whose love for her stricken child transformed her into a tenacious advocate for change. A gripping human drama rooted in a centuries-old scientific quest, Toms River is a tale of dumpers at midnight and deceptions in broad daylight, of corporate avarice and government neglect, and of a few brave individuals who refused to keep silent until the truth was exposed. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS “A thrilling journey full of twists and turns, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of All Maladies “A complex tale of powerful industry, local politics, water rights, epidemiology, public health and cancer in a gripping, page-turning environmental thriller.”—NPR “Unstoppable reading.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Meticulously researched and compellingly recounted . . . It’s every bit as important—and as well-written—as A Civil Action and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”—The Star-Ledger “Fascinating . . . a gripping environmental thriller.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “An honest, thoroughly researched, intelligently written book.”—Slate “[A] hard-hitting account . . . a triumph.”—Nature “Absorbing and thoughtful.”—USA Today
Silent Partners
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Author : Rebecca Dresser
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Silent Partners written by Rebecca Dresser and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Medical categories.
The research ethics system was created without the help of people who know what it is like to be a research subject. This is a serious omission. Experts have overlooked ethical issues that matter to subjects. Silent Partners moves subjects to the forefront, giving them a voice in research ethics.
Natural Salvation
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Author : C. Stephens
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-06-10
Natural Salvation written by C. Stephens and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-10 with categories.
The author of "Natural Salvation" starts with the hypothesis that modern science, meaning the systematized growth of human knowledge for three centuries, has invalidated religious faith and left nothing in its place, and that the gulf between religion and science is impassable. Then he announces that "science has now its nobler creed" to offer those who are willing to accept it. Answering the question, " What are the tenets of this new faith of scientific knowledge?" he replies: "It is all comprised in the simple faith that we can perfect the human organism, transform the earth to Heaven, and achieve deathless life." The aim of Dr. Stephens's took is to point the way to "immortal life on the earth from the growth of knowledge and the development of the human brain." -The Writer, Volume 22 [1910]