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Stories from Quechan oral literature
"The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of time and introduc…
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- 9781909254879
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- XII, 533 p.
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- World Oral Literature Series
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- 970.00497 HAL s
Tales of research misconduct : a Lacanian diagnostics of integrity challenges…
This monograph contributes to the scientific misconduct debate from an oblique perspective, by analysing seven novels devoted to this issue, namely: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1925), The affair by C.P. Snow (1960), Cantor’s Dilemma by Carl Djerassi (1989), Perlmann’s Silence by Pascal Mercier (1995), Intuition by Allegra Goodman (2006), Solar by Ian McEwan (2010) and Derailment by Died…
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- 9783319655543
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- ix, 263p. : ill.
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- 174.95 ZWA t
Interface oral health science 2016 : innovative research on biosis-abiosis in…
This volume broadens understanding of dentistry and promotes interdisciplinary research across a wide range of related fields, based on the symposium entitled "Innovative Research for Biosis–Abiosis Intelligent Interface 2016". It aims to create highly functional and autonomic intelligent interface by combining highly functional interface science with the technology of an evaluation and a con…
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- 9789811015601
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- xi, 277p. : ill.
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- 617.6 INT i
Informatics in the future : proceedings of the 11th European Computer Science…
This volume discusses the prospects and evolution of informatics (or computer science), which has become the operating system of our world, and is today seen as the science of the information society. Its artifacts change the world and its methods have an impact on how we think about and perceive the world. Classical computer science is built on the notion of an “abstract” machine, which ca…
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- 9783319557359
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- xi, 109p. : ill.
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- 004 INF i
Anti-vivisection and the profession of medicine in Britain : a social history
This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings until the 1960s. It discusses the ethical principles that inspired the movement and the socio-political background that explains its rise and fall. Opposition to vivisection began when medical practitioners complained it was contrary to the compassionate ethos of their profes…
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- 9781137556974
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- xxi, 217p. : ill.
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- 179.4 BAT a
One hundred years of chemical warfare: research, deployment, consequences
On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history. The …
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- 9783319516646
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- xi, 408p. : ill.
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- 355 ONE o
Research, ethics and risk in the authoritarian field
This Open Access book offers a synthetic reflection on the authors’ fieldwork experiences in seven countries within the framework of ‘Authoritarianism in a Global Age’, a major comparative research project. It responds to the demand for increased attention to methodological rigor and transparency in qualitative research, and seeks to advance and practically support field research in autho…
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- 9783319689661
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- xv, 122p. : ill.
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- 320 RES r
Pioneering ethics in a longitudinal study : the early development of the ALSP…
"Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as Children of the 90s, is a world-leading birth cohort study that uniquely enrolled participants in utero and obtained genetic material from a geographic population. It instigated the innovative but controversial ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee. This book describes in detail t…
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- 9781447340423
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- XXi, 203 p.
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- 174 BIR p
Disasters : core concepts and ethical theories
This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on how ethical issues that arise …
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- 9783319927220
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- ix, 244p. : ill.
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- 170 DIS d
Peer review, peer education, and modeling in the practice of clinical ethics …
This open access book about the Zadeh Project demonstrates and explores a core question in clinical ethics: how can ethics consultants be accountable in the face of a robust plurality of ethical standpoints, especially those that underwrite practices and methods for doing ethics consultation as well as those viewpoints and values encountered in daily clinical ethics practice? Underscoring this …
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- 9783319909554
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- viii, 228p.
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- 174.2
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