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Living with Dementia
This book addresses current issues in the neuroscience and ethics of dementia care, including philosophical as well as ethical legal, and social issues (ELSIs), issues in clinical, institutional, and private care-giving, and international perspectives on dementia and care innovations. As such, it is a must-read for anyone interested in a well-researched, thought-provoking overview of current issues in dementia diagnosis, care, and social and legal policy. All contributions reflect the latest neuroscientific research on dementia, either broadly construed or in terms of the etiologies and symptoms of particular forms of dementia. Given its interdisciplinary and international scope, its depth of research, and its qualitative emphasis, the book represents a valuable addition to the available literature on neuroethics, gerontology, and neuroscientific memory research.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Issues of Proof in Health Science
This book offers an interdisciplinary reflection on the scientific and ethical issues of the notion of proof in medicine. The book poses the following questions: why does an argument convince? How does one make a rational decision in the face of contradictory data? Why and how can we prioritize levels of evidence? What is the value of physicians' professional experience in the production of evidence? By asking these questions, this book highlights the debates surrounding the notions of robustness, relevance and statistical significance regarding different conceptions of the reliability of biomedical knowledge. It is intended for both biomedical scientists (clinicians, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, etc.) and researchers in the social sciences and humanities who are interested in the social organization of clinical trials and in decision-making in a context of uncertainty. It also provides a better understanding of social issues in specific contexts, such as gynecological care, prevention policies, significance tests, and the management of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ethical futures: bioscience and food horizons
In an ever changing interconnected world, the agriculture and food system faces constant challenges in many forms, such as the impacts of climate change, uncertainty surrounding the use of novel technologies and the emergence of new zoonotic diseases. Alongside these challenges professionals working in the food system are faced with opportunities to improve food production and distribution. As decision-makers attempt to balance these threats and opportunities in order to secure more sustainable production systems, the key question that arises is: What do we envisage as the future for agriculture and food production? With numerous voices advocating different and sometimes conflicting approach...
Global Change: Mankind-Marine Environment Interactions
Based on the material presented at a conference organized by the Centre d’Océanologie of Marseille, held in 2008, this text covers a wealth of hot topics related to the way mankind interacts with the marine environment. With the state of our oceans and seas becoming an increasing source of concern worldwide, this timely addition to the debate features the latest research in both France and Japan. The book’s chapters present work on many of the key areas of oceanographic study. The concept of marine biodiversity is treated, in particular how it is affected by human agency and invasive species, many of which have been introduced anthropogenically. Coastal zones are analyzed in detail, wit...
The In-Discipline of Design
Design is a conceptive activity which is usually presented as a sensible, sequential process and action. This book claims that design cannot be reduced to the rational, effective planning and organization that most models (such as design thinking) present. The author suggests another type of rationality which is based on what the humanities call aesthetics, writing, composition, and style: a rationality based in imaginary elaboration and coherence. The chapters, therefore, demonstrate that design practice is about creating not only functional tools, but planes of reflections that challenge norms. To support this claim, this book analyzes research programs, art works, and design projects that...
The Human Right to Science
The Human Right to Science offers a thorough and systematic analysis of the right to science in all of its critical aspects. Authored by experts in international law and science policy, the book meticulously explores the right's origins, development, and normative content. In doing so, it uncovers previously unarticulated entitlements and obligations, offering new insights on human rights interconnections.
A Critical Theory for the Anthropocene
This volume, which is rooted in biogeophysical studies, addresses conceptions of political action in the Anthropocene and the tension between a desire to accomplish the Promethean project of modernity and a post-Promethean approach. This work explores the idea of an anthropological mutation of political consolidation from a “post-Promethean togetherness”, to creating the capacity to act together. The political thinking of the human condition developed by Hannah Arendt is important here as a resource for thinking about humanity in terms of human adventure. This has three dimensions: hubris, the world and coexistence referring respectively to the logic of profit of the homo oeconomic...
Modélisation et interdisciplinarité
Douze grands témoins, scientifiques renommés de six disciplines (anthropologie, biologie, géographie, linguistique, philosophie, physique) ont répondu, lors d’une série de séminaires, à la question renouvelée aujourd’hui de la relation entre modélisation et interdisciplinarité telle qu’elle s’est présentée dans leur démarche de recherche. Cet ouvrage qui en est issu, original par sa forme directe du discours, en fournit au lecteur quelques clés.
Modéliser et simuler
Un état des lieux de la modélisation et de la simulation Il y a trente-cinq ans paraissait en France l’importante synthèse dirigée par Pierre Delattre et Michel Thellier : Élaboration et justification des modèles. Depuis cette date, que de chemins parcourus ! La simulation a pris un poids considérable. Sa pratique n’est plus seulement numérique. L’approche objets, la simulation à base d’agents, la simulation sur grille, le calcul parallèle se sont développés. La diversité des pratiques s’est donc considérablement accrue, essentiellement à la faveur de l’enrichissement des possibilités offertes par la computation. Si cette augmentation de la diversité a pu appara�...
Pfandsammler
An Bahnhöfen, vor Fußballstadien, in Stadtgärten und Fußgängerzonen, überall trifft man sie an: die Pfandsammler. Es sind Männer und Frauen, alte und junge, und sie gehören spätestens seit der Einführung des Pfandes auf Einweggetränkeverpackungen im Jahre 2006 zum Bild einer jeden deutschen Großstadt. Verdienen kann man mit dem Aufklauben von Dosen und Flaschen kaum etwas; diese nur vordergründige rein ökonomische Aktivität erlaubt es noch nicht einmal, die eigene Existenz auf minimale Weise selbstständig zu sichern. Zudem werden diese Menschen, die mit ihren Händen tief in die Abfalltonne der Innenstädte greifen, die öffentlichen Plätze vom Unrat der anderen reinigen und...
